| 2023 | Ernst Rank |
| 2022 | Michael Ortiz |
| 2021 | Katia Bertoldi |
| 2020 | Ellen Kuhl |
| 2019 | Marco Amabili |
| 2018 | Bill Curtin |
| 2017 | Zhigang Suo |
| 2016 | Kurt Maute |
| 2015 | Stefanie Reese |
| 2014 | Anja Boisen |
| 2013 | Wolfgang Wall |
| 2012 | Roger Owen |
| 2011 | Oded Gottlieb |
| 2010 | Herbert Mang |
| 2009 | Charbel Farhat |
| 2008 | Gerhard Holzapfel |
| 2007 | Bernhard Schrefler |
| 2006 | Alan Needleman |
| 2005 | Peter Wriggers |
| 2004 | Alan Grodzinsky |
| 2003 | Ole Sigmund |
| 2002 | Norman Fleck |
| 2001 | Edwin Kreuzer |
| 2000 | Ekkehard Ramm |
| 1999 | John Hutchinson |
| 1998 | Pieter Zandbergen Werner Schiehlen |
For over twenty years the prestigious Koiter lecture has marked the scientific opening of the annual EM symposium. The Koiter lecture is delivered by renowned scientist in the field of engineering mechanics. The Graduate School on Engineering Mechanics is enormously proud to have hosted the Koiter lecturers: