Lecturers

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Guido Morgenthal
Head of course program NHRE
Institute of Structural Engineering
Professorship for Modelling and Simulation of Structures

 Subjects:

• Primary hazards and risks (Wind engineering)Structural engineering
• Structural parameter survey and evaluation
• Life-lines engineering 
• Computational and Experimental Wind Engineering

Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Abrahamczyk
Head of course program NHRE
Institute of Structural Engineering
Professorship for Advanced Structures

Subjects:

• Primary hazards and risks (Seismic monitoring)
• Earthquake engineering and structural design
• Assessment of structural performance (under extreme loading conditions)
• Risk projects and evaluation of structures

Dr.-Ing. Jochen Schwarz
(Head of course program NHRE from 2010 to 2021)
Earthquake Damage Analysis Center (EDAC)

Subjects:

• Primary hazards and risks (Seismic monitoring)
• Earthquake engineering and structural design
• Multi-hazard and risk assessment
• Risk projects and evaluation of structures
• Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and building stock survey
• Assessment of structural performance (under extreme loading conditions)

Jun.-Prof. Anastasia Athanasiou
Professorship for Natural Hazards and Structural Resilience

Subjects:

• Primary hazards and risks (Wind engineering)
• Applied finite element methods and structural dynamics
• Assessment of structural performance (under extreme loading conditions)

Prof. Dr. Fabrice Cotton
GFZ Potsdam

Subject:

• Multi-hazard and risk assessment

Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Frank Eckardt
Professorship for Urban Studies and Social Research

Subject:

• Disaster management and mitigation strategies

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rüdiger Höffer
Windingenieurwesen und Strömungsmechnik (University Bochum)

Subject:

• Primary hazards and risks (Wind engineering)

apl. Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Reinhard Illge
Institute of Mathematics and Physics

Subject:

• Structural parameter survey and evaluation

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christan Koch
Professorship for Intelligent Technical Design

Subjects:

• Advanced building information modelling
• Object-oriented modeling and programming in engineering

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Carsten Könke
Institute of Structural Mechanics
Professorship for Structural Analysis and Component Strength

Subjects:

• Applied finite element methods and structural dynamics

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Kraus
Institute of Structural Engineering
Professorship for Steel and Hybrid Structures

Subjects:

• Structural engineering
• Modelling of steel structures and numerical simulation
• Design and interpretation of experiments

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Tom Lahmer
Institute of Structural Mechanics
Professorship for Optimization and Stochastics

Subjects:

• Stochastics and risk assessment
• Introduction to Optimization / Optimization in Applications
• Design and interpretation of experiments (incl. Signal Processing II)
• Stochastic simulation techniques and structural reliability

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Melzner
Professorship for Construction Engineering and Management

Subject:

• Disaster management and mitigation strategies

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Timon Rabczuk
Institute of Structural Mechanics
Professorship for Computational Mechanics

Subject:

• Finite element methods and structural dynamics
• Applied finite element methods and structural dynamics

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Volker Rodehorst
Professorship for Computer Vision in Engineering

Subject:

• Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and building stock survey
• Structural parameter survey and evaluation 

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Björn Rüffer
Institute of Mathematics and Physics
Professorship for Applied Mathematics

Subjects:

• Applied mathematics
• Complex dynamics
• Mathematics for data science

Vertr.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Patrick Staubach
Geotechnics
Deputy professorship for Soil mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering

Subjects:

• Geo- and hydrotechnical engineering
• Secondary hazards and risks (land-use, site studies)

Dr.-Ing. Silke Beinersdorf
Earthquake Damage Analysis Center (EDAC)

Subject:

• Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and building stock survey
• Multi-hazard and risk assessment

Dr.-Ing. Holger Maiwald
Earthquake Damage Analysis Center (EDAC)

Subjects:

• Geo- and hydrotechnical engineering: Flood Hazard and Vulnerability Assessment  
• Multi-Hazard and risk assessment
• Risk projects and evaluation of structures

Dr.-Ing. habil. Thomas Most
Institute of Structural Mechanics

Subject:

• Finite element methods and structural dynamics

Dr. Graeme Weatherill
GFZ Potsdam

Subject:

• Multi-hazard and risk assessment