Timon Rabczuk is Professor of Computational Mechanics at Bauhaus University Weimar. He has published more than 650 articles and 2 books. Timon is editor in Chief of CMC-Computers, Materials and Continua, associate editor of International Journal of Impact Engineering, Applied Physics A, International Journal of Mechanics and Materials in Design, Underground Space, Defense Technology and executive editor of FSCE-Frontiers of Structural and Civil Engineering. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. His research interests include Computational Science, Integrated Computational Materials Engineering and the numerical solution of partial differential equations. Klaus-Jürgen Bathe is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Bathe is also the Founder of the company ADINA R & D recently acquired by Bentley Systems. He has published numerous articles, six textbooks, two books onhis life experiences, and is an Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Computers and Structures. He has been honored by the ASME, ASCE, U.S. National Academy of Engineering, through three awards at M.I.T., and through many honorary doctorates for his teaching, his pioneering and widely used fundamental contributions in computational mechanics, and for bridging the world between Academia and Industry.