On September 25th, 2020, M. Sc. Sahir Butt, research assistant of the SFB 837 (subproject C4), was elected as GAMM Junior for the years 2021-2023.

Former CompEng student M.Sc. Sahir N. Butt. is an outstanding alumnus; He received a special scholarship for outstanding CompEng-students in order to finish his Master’s and start his PhD degree at the same time, working as a research assistant. The Fast Track scholarship program was introduced as a cooperation between the Computational Engineering Master’s course and the Collaborative Research Center 837 „Interaction Modeling in Mechanized Tunneling “(SFB 837). Mr. Butt was the first scholarship holder of this scholarship program.

With a final grade of 0.9, Mr. Butt was among the top 3 graduates of the 2014 Computational Engineering batch - while already working on his PhD.

Each year, the GAMM members select ten new GAMM Juniors, with an excellent master’s thesis or dissertation in applied mathematics or mechanics.

These GAMM Juniors form a group of young and dynamic doctoral students and postdocs which will be members of the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik e.V. (GAMM) for three years.

The group meets annually for several workshops. Each year, the GAMM Juniors organize the ‘Summer School in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics’ (SAMM) and the ‘Young Academics in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics’ (YAMM).

We would like to congratulate Mr. Butt for his election and wish him all the best!