Lecturers

Here you will find an overview of the lecturers in the NHRE degree programme. Get in direct contact and get to know the respective professorships, institutes and research areas. 

Prof. Dr. 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, Contact DAAD-EPOS NHRE
Institute of Structural Engineering
Professorship for Advanced Structures 

• Subjects
  • Primary hazards and risks (Seismic monitoring)
  • Earthquake engineering and structural design
  • Structural design and performance assessment (for 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
  • Structural design and performance assessment (for 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.-Ing. Christan Koch

Institute of Construction Informatics, Applied Mathematics and Building Physics (IBMB)
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

BuiltEnvironment-Management-Institute
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

Institute of Construction Informatics, Applied Mathematics and Building Physics (IBMB) 
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 Construction Informatics, Applied Mathematics and Building Physics (IBMB) 
Professorship for Applied Mathematics 

• Subjects
  • Applied mathematics
  • Complex dynamics
  • Mathematics for data science

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Patrick Staubach

Institute of Structural Engineering 
Professorship for Soil mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering 

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

Dr.-Ing. Silke Beinersdorf

Institute of Structural Mechanics 
Earthquake Damage Analysis Center (EDAC) 

• Subject
  • Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and building stock survey
  • Multi-hazard and risk assessment
  • Geo- and hydrotechnical engineering: Flood Hazard and Vulnerability Assessment

Dr.-Ing. Holger Maiwald

Institute of Structural Mechanics 
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