Qualifications and Career
| Stages | Periods and Details |
|---|---|
| Diploma | Civil Engineering (Dipl.-Ing.), 1988-1993, University of Stuttgart, Germany |
| Doctorate | 1999 (Dr.-Ing.), Supervisor: Prof. Ekkehard Ramm, Theory and numerics of a three-dimensional shell formulation, University of Stuttgart, Germany |
| Stages of academic / professional career | Vice Rector for Research and Early Career Researchers and member of the university management |
| since 2006: Professor for Structural Mechanics at the University of Stuttgart, Director of the Institute for Structural Mechanics | |
| 2005: Habilitation, venia legendi for statics, Technical University of Munich | |
| 2001-2006: Postdoctoral Researcher and Deputy chair of the Chair of Structural Analysis, Technical University of Munich | |
| 2000-2001: Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Structural Mechanics, University of Stuttgart | |
| 1999-2000: Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA | |
| 1993-1999: Research Assistant, Institute for Structural Mechanics, University of Stuttgart |