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Technical University of Munich

Tom Hicks M.Sc.

Room:N1149
Phone: +49 (0) 89 289 28385
Fax:+49 (0) 89 289 28665
E-Mail:tom.hicks@tum.de
Office Hours:individual appointments,
on request by e-mail or telephone

Curriculum Vitae

since 2023Research and teaching associate at the Chair of Structural Mechanics, Technical University of Munich
2020 - 2022Master of Science (M.Sc.), Civil Engineering, Technical University of Munich
2020 - 2021Exchange semester at Universitat Polytècnica de Catalunya BarcelonaTech, Barcelona, Spain
2018 - 2019Exchange semester at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
2016 - 2020Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Civil Engineering, Technical University of Munich
2015Abitur at Droste-Hülshoff Gymnasium, Meersburg

Fields of Research

Awards and Scholarships

  • Doce et Delecta Teaching Award (1st Prize) for outstanding exercise classes within the master programm Civil Engineering for the course “Structural Dynamics”
  • Springer Nature Best Paper Award at ICOVP & WMVC 2025
  • Maurer Söhne Award for an outstanding Master Thesis in the field of Technical Dynamics
  • Deutschlandstipendium National Scholarship Program at TUM 2018 - 2022

Teaching

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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.

Conference Contributions

  • Hicks, T.; Müller, G.: Enhanced ITM-FEM Approach for Modeling a Spherical Cavity in an Elastic Half-space Using Wavenumber Parallelization. Mechanisms and Machine Science, Springer Nature, 2026, 337-347 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI ) Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Hicks, T.; Müller, G.: A Parallel ITM-FEM Framework for Modeling Metabarriers Embedded in a Stratified Elastic Half-Space. 17th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM), 2026 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Hicks, T.; Freisinger, J.; Taddei, F.; Müller, G.: 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), Eccomas Proceedia, 2025, 2394-2410 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI ) Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Hicks, T.; Müller, G.: 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 Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Weber, F.; Hicks, T.; Miksch, M.; Rumpler, R.; Müller, G.: 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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