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Maria Hammer

Dipl. Phys

Research associate
Institute for Modelling and Simulation of Biomechanical Systems

Contact

+49 711 685 63170

Nobelstraße 15
70569 Stuttgart
Deutschland
Room: 00.066

Office Hours

  • Monday: 10:00  - 11:00 am - only with appointment

Subject

  • Multibody simulations
  • Lower limb and spine biomechanics
  • Muscle and ligament modelling
  • Patient-specific spine models
  • Surrogate modelling for IVDs
Publications:

  1. 2024

    1. 1. Hammer M, Wenzel T, Santin G, Meszaros-Beller L, Little JP, Haasdonk B, et al. A new method to design energy-conserving surrogate models for the coupled, nonlinear responses of intervertebral discs. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology [Internet]. 2024;1--24. Available from: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10237-023-01804-4

  2. 2023

    1. 2. Meszaros-Beller L, Hammer M, Riede JM, Pivonka P, Little JP, Schmitt S. Effects of geometric individualisation of a human spine model on load sharing: neuro-musculoskeletal simulation reveals significant differences in ligament and muscle contribution. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology [Internet]. 2023;1--26. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10237-022-01673-3
    2. 3. Meszaros-Beller L, Hammer M, Schmitt S, Pivonka P. Effect of neglecting passive spinal structures: a quantitative investigation using the forward-dynamics and inverse-dynamics musculoskeletal approach. Frontiers in Physiology. 2023;14:1135531.
    3. 4. Chacon PF, Hammer M, Wochner I, Walter JR, Schmitt S. A physiologically enhanced muscle spindle model: using a Hill-type model for extrafusal fibers as template for intrafusal fibers. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering [Internet]. 2023;1--20. Available from: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38126259/

  3. 2022

    1. 5. Hammer M, Riede JM, Meszaros-Beller L, Schmitt S. gspine: A Human Spine Model Built Using Literature Data. 2022; Available from: https://doi.org/10.18419/darus-2814

  4. 2021

    1. 6. Rockenfeller R, Hammer M, Riede JM, Schmitt S, Lawonn K. Intuitive assessment of modeled lumbar spinal motion by  clustering and visualization of finite helical axes. Computers in Biology and Medicine [Internet]. 2021;135:104528. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2021.104528

  5. 2020

    1. 7. Mörl F, Günther M, Riede JM, Hammer M, Schmitt S. Loads distributed in vivo among vertebrae, muscles, spinal ligaments, and intervertebral discs in a passively flexed lumbar spine. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology [Internet]. 2020 Dec 1;19(6):2015–47. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10237-020-01322-7

  6. 2019

    1. 8. Hammer M, Günther M, Haeufle DFB, Schmitt S. Tailoring anatomical muscle paths: a sheath-like solution for muscle routing in musculo-skeletal computer models. Mathematical Biosciences [Internet]. 2019;311:68–81. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mbs.2019.02.004

  7. 2017

    1. 9. Martynenko O, Kleinbach C, Hammer M, Haeufle DFB, Mayer C, Schmitt S. Advanced Hill-type Muscle model as User Defined Material in LS-DYNA with Routing Capability for Application in Active Human Body Models. In: Proceedings of the International IRCOBI Conference [Internet]. Antwerp, Belgium: IRCOBI Council; 2017. p. 679--680. (Proceedings of the International IRCOBI Conference). Available from: http://www.ircobi.org/wordpress/downloads/irc17/pdf-files/91.pdf

  8. 2014

    1. 10. Gaitzsch J, Appelhans D, Janke A, Strempel M, Schwille P, Voit B. Cross-linked and pH sensitive supported polymer bilayers from polymersomes--studies concerning thickness, rigidity and fluidity. Soft Matter. 2014;10(1):75--82.

  9. 2013

    1. 11. Fürthauer S, Strempel M, Grill SW, Jülicher F. Active chiral processes in thin films. Physical review letters. 2013;110(4):048103.

  10. 2012

    1. 12. Fürthauer S, Strempel M, Grill SW, Jülicher F. Active chiral fluids. The European physical journal E. 2012;35(9):1--13.

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Scientific Education

  • since 2013: PhD student at the University of Stuttgart in Faculty 7 (Engineering Design, Production Engineering and Automotive Engineering) and in the Simulation Technology Graduate School (GS SimTech)
  • 2010 - 2011: Diploma thesis at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems and at the Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden
  • 2006 - 2011: Diploma in Physics at the Technical University of Dresden
    Major subject: Biophysics (Istitute of Applied Physics) 

    Minor subject: Biomedical engineering

Professional Positions

  • since 2019: Research Assistant at the Institute for Modelling and Simulation of Biomechanical Systems (IMSB) and Stuttgart Centre for Simulation Science (SC SimTech), University of Stuttgart
  • 2017 and since 2019: Guest Researcher at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane
  • 2013-2019: Research Assistant at the Institute for Sport- and Movement Science and Stuttgart Research Center for Simulation Science (SRC SimTech), University of Stuttgart
  • 2013: Assistant in Research and Development Department at GFR- Gesellschaft für Regelungstechnik und Energieeinsparung m.b.H., Jena
  • 2012: Research Assistant at the Centre for Biotechnology (BIOTEC) of the Technical University Dresden
  • 2011 - 2012: Student assistant at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden
  • 2008: Student assistant at the Research Centre Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute for Radiation Physics, and OncoRay, Dresden
  • Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG)
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