Dr. Michael Kaliske was born in Hamburg, Germany. He studied and graduated from the University of Hannover and worked as research fellow at the Institute for Structural Analysis (University of Hannover) from 1991 to 1999. He got his Ph.D. in 1995 and the Habilitation in 1999. Subsequently, he joined Continental and was Head of the Mechanics and Simulation Development Department until 2002. By then, he was awarded the Chair of Structural Mechanics at University of Leipzig (2002 to 2008). Since 2006, he has been Director of the Institute for Structural Analysis at Technische Universität Dresden. Further responsibilities have been Secretary of the "International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics" since 2009, Editor of "Tire Science and Technology" since 2010, and he has been Vice-President of the "International Association for Computational Mechanics" since 2022, among others. Dr. Michael Kaliske is interested in modelling and simulation of structural behavior at different length scales as well as its multi-physical aspects.