Construction Materials Professorship
In my work on the University Council of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, I hope to engender cross-faculty coordination on crucial contemporary issues in construction, such as CO2 reduction, resource efficiency and various other aspects of sustainability. To this end, I keenly contribute my expertise as an internationally networked researcher. Intensive communication - both within the university and beyond - is particularly important to me, to ensure that important discussions can be held on a basis of mutual understanding.
WORK FOCUS AND INTERESTS
- Construction materials research
- Climate protection
- Conservation of resources
- Development of new strategies to accelerate practical implementation of research findings
- Improving framework conditions for the establishment of start-up companies on the basis of current research findings
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Residency/Ph.D.
03/1989 – 02/1996
Research assistant at the Faculty of Civil Engineering
Academic Chair of Building Material Science – University of Architecture and Civil Engineering Weimar
03/1994
Awarded »E-Schein« (certification of concrete technology expertise) from the Deutsche Beton-Verein e.V. in Apolda.
07/1996
Published Ph.D. thesis on the topic »Zur Rolle von Phasenumwandlungen bei der Frost- und Frost-Tausalz-Belastung von Beton« (on the role of phase transformations of concrete when exposed to freeze-thaw and freeze-thaw with de-icing salt), graduating with summa cum laude.
10/1996
Thesis honoured with the Readymix Concrete Promotion Award
Professional Background
03/1996 – 09/2008
Senior Executive at Schwenk Zement KG
03/1996 – 09/2008
Laboratory General Manager (cement and concrete laboratory) at the Karlstadt cement plant, main responsible person for cement monitoring and cement utilisation in concrete
01/2001 – 09/2008
Head of Research and Development of the entire Schwenk Group, responsible for supervision and coordination of R&D projects, contact with industry and university partners, supervision of various internships as well as dissertations and Ph.D. theses
04/2002 – 09/2008
Managing Director of ZEMBET Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (research company operated jointly with BASF AG). The company essentially engages in researching and optimising the interaction of organic substances with cement-based building materials.
09/2008 – 10/2009
Head of Research/Development and Innovation at HeidelbergCement AG (headquartered in Leimen), responsible for supervision and coordination of the HC Group’s global research and development activities
Since 11/2009
W3 professorship »Construction Materials« and Director of the F. A. Finger Institute for Building Materials at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Link to website:
https://www.uni-weimar.de/de/bauingenieurwesen/professuren/werkstoffe-des-bauens/