Martin Diehl is professor for Computational Materials Science at KU Leuven with affiliation to the Department of Materials Engineering and the Department of Computer Science.
He obtained his diploma degree (master equivalent) in 2010 from TU München in mechanical engineering and his PhD from RWTH Aachen University in 2015 in materials science and engineering. After that he worked as a post doctoral researcher in the Theory and Simulation group under the supervision of Franz Roters in the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, Germany in the department for Microstructure Physics and Alloy Design headed by Dierk Raabe. He then became project group leader for Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) in the same institution.

Martin’s scientific interests lay in the continuum modeling of structural materials at engineering time and length scales.
To this ends, he is the main developer of the Düsseldorf Advanced Materials Simulation Kit (DAMASK). DAMASK contains a variety of crystal plasticity models together with modules for the description of damage and temperature. A special focus of Martin’s work is joint computational–experimental work. This includes for example the use of experimentally characterized microstructures as input for simulations.