Officers
ISTVS Officers
PRESIDENT
Dr. Corina Sandu
ASME Fellow, SAE Fellow, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow
Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department
Director, Terramechanics, Multibody, and Vehicle Systems Laboratory
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Randolph Hall 107
460 Old Turner Street
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0710 US
Tel: (540) 231-7467
csandu@vt.edu
1ST VICE PRESIDENT
Dr. Lutz Richter
Large Space Structures, GmbH
Hauptstr. 1e
85386 Eching
Germany
Tel: +49 (89) 72495 236
lutzrichter2@gmx.de
2ND VICE PRESIDENT
Prof. Junya Yamakawa
Automotive Engineering Laboratory
National Defense Academy
1-10-20 Hashirimizu, Yokosuka 239-8686
Japan
DEPUTY GENERAL SECRETARY FOR EUROPE-AFRICA
Dr. Schalk Els
Associate Professor
University of Pretoria
Private Bag X20
Hatfield, 0028
Pretoria, South Africa
DEPUTY GENERAL SECRETARY FOR
ASIA-PACIFIC
Dr. Taizo Kobayashi
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ritsumeikan University
Shiga 525-8577
Japan
DEPUTY GENERAL SECRETARY FOR AMERICAS
Heidi R. Howard
ERDC-CERL
2902 Newmark Drive
Champaign, IL 61822
GENERAL SECRETARY
Massimo Martelli
CNR - STEMS
Branch office of Ferrara
(formerly IMAMOTER)
National Research Council of Italy
Via Canal Bianco, 28
44124 Ferrara
Italy
Tel: +39 0532-735636
gs@istvs.org
STAFF
Renee Melendy
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER
Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL)
renee.d.melendy@usace.army.mil
Jenna Dixon
DIGITAL OPERATIONS
hello@istvs.org
STUDENT COORDINATORS
Mohit Shenvi
mshenvi@vt.edu
Andries Peenze
andriespeenze@tuks.co.za
Past ISTVS Presidents
1962–1965 | James J. Murray (General Secretary), USA
1965–1969 | Alan R. Reece, United Kingdom
1969–1972 | Norman W. Radforth, Canada
1972–1975 | Walter Söhne, Germany
1975–1978 | Dean R. Freitag, USA
1978–1981 | Stig A. K. Areskoug, Sweden
1981–1984 | I. Robert Ehrlich, USA
1984–1987 | Klaus-Jürgen Melzer, Germany
1987–1990 | Robert. D. Wismer, USA
1990–1993 | Michael John Dwyer, United Kingdom
1993–1996 | Raymond N. Yong, Canada
1996–1999 | Masanori Kitano, Japan
1999–2002 | Helmut Schwanghart, Germany
2002–2005 | J. Y. Wong, Canada
2005–2008 | Iwan Wästerlund, Sweden
2008–2011 | Kazuyoshi Tateyama, Japan
2011–2014 | Sally Shoop, USA
2014–2017 | Péter Kiss, Hungary
2017–2020 | Dr. Hiroshi Nakashima, Japan