- Enhanced ITM-FEM Approach for Modeling a Spherical Cavity in an Elastic Half-space Using Wavenumber Parallelization. 11th International Converence on Wave Mechanics and Vibrations (WMVC 2025), 2025 more… BibTeX
- Modeling Metabarriers and Metafoundations for Ground-Borne Vibration Mitigation Using a Coupled ITM-FEM Approach. 8th ECCOMAS Young Investigators Conference (YIC 2025), 2025 more… BibTeX
- Modeling the Mitigation of Ground-Borne Vibrations Using Sub-Surface Resonators via a Coupled ITM-FEM Approach. 10th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2025), 2025 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
- Numerical investigation of periodic metamaterials. International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering (ISMA 2020), 2020, 2441-2449 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
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| E-Mail: | tom.hicks(at)tum.de |
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Curriculum Vitae
| since 2023 | Research and teaching associate at the Chair of Structural Mechanics, Technical University of Munich |
| 2020 - 2022 | Master of Science (M.Sc.), Civil Engineering, Technical University of Munich |
| 2020 - 2021 | Exchange semester at Universitat Polytècnica de Catalunya BarcelonaTech, Barcelona, Spain |
| 2018 - 2019 | Exchange semester at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China |
| 2016 - 2020 | Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Civil Engineering, Technical University of Munich |
| 2015 | Abitur at Droste-Hülshoff Gymnasium, Meersburg |
Awards and Scholarships
- Springer Nature Best Paper Award at ICOVP & WMVC 2025
- Maurer Söhne prize for excellent master thesis in the field of Technical Dynamics
- Deutschlandstipendium at TUM 2018 - 2022
Thesis Proposals
Currently I have no open theses projects. If you're interested in our research, feel free to contact me to discuss possible thesis topics.