Civil Engineering Departmental Seminar - CARE – Climate-Neutral And Resource-Efficient Construction

Viktor Mechtcherine is Professor of Construction Materials and Director of the Institute of Construction Materials at the TUD – Dresden University of Technology, Germany. Before that he was Professor at the TU Kaiserslautern (2003-2006) and Chief Research Engineer with the Institute of Reinforced Concrete Structures and Building materials at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology – KIT (1998-2003). His current research interests include fibre-reinforced cement-based materials, rheology, concrete technology, fracture mechanics, durability and new additives. Viktor is Chair of the RILEM Technical Committee "Application of Super Absorbent Polymers in Concrete Construction", member of the Steering Committee of the fib Commission 8 "Concrete", member of the Advisory Board of International Association of Fracture Mechanics of Concrete and Concrete Structures (IAFraMCos), member of the Presidium of the Collaborative Research Centre ‘‘Textile Reinforcement for Structural Strengthening and Retrofitting” of the German Research Foundation (DFG), and member of the Expert Board “Construction products made of fibre-reinforced cementitious materials” of the German Institute of Structural Engineering (DIBt).