Peter Wriggers is emeritus professor at the Institute of Continuum Mechanics of Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. He served as president of GAMM (German Association for Computational Mechanics), president of GACM (Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics) and vice-president of IACM (International Association for Computational Mechanics). He currently acts as Editor-in-Chief of the journals “Computational Mechanics” and “Computational Particle Mechanics”. He was awarded the Fellowship of IACM, and received the “Computational Mechanics Award” and the “IACM Award” of IACM, and the “Euler Medal” of ECCOMAS.