Holm Altenbach is a Full Professor of Engineering Mechanics at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Materials, Technologies, and Mechanics. He obtained his diploma in 1980 and PhD in 1983 and was habilitated in 1987 (all at Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, now Peter the Great Polytechnical Univesity). He has 45 years of experience in teaching and research in various fields of mechanics (material modelling, mechanical analysis of thin-walled structures, composite mechanics, general strength problems, generalized continuum models, etc.). Since 2022, he has been retired. He is a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and of the National Academy of Science Ukraine. In 2023, he was awarded the Lomonosov medal of the RAS.