Professor
© Viktor Mechtcherine
Institute Director
NameUniv.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Viktor Mechtcherine
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Curriculum Vitae
- Born 18.09.1964 in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, Russia
Degree programme
| 1981/09 – 1986/07 | Civil Engineering, University for Civil Engineering and Architecture, St. Petersburg, Russia |
Scientific degrees
| 2000 |
Dr.-Ing., supervised by Prof. H.S. Müller and Prof. H.K. Hilsdorf, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany, with distinction |
Stages of academic/professional career
| 2006/10 – Current |
Professor (W3), Director of the Institute of |
| 2003/08 – 2006/09 |
Professor, Chair Holder for Building Materials, TU Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany |
| 2002/05 |
Appointment to Academic Council, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 1998/04 – 2003/07 | Senior Research Engineer and Deputy Chair, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 1992/11 – 1998/04 | Research Associate, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany |
Activities and Academic Distinctions
| 2022 – Current |
Steering Committee Member and Principal Investigator in the DFG Collaborative Research Centre TRR 339 “Digital twin of the road system – Physical-informational representation of the future road system”, joint project of TU Dresden and RWTH Aachen |
| 2022 |
Innovation Contest Award in the Category Production, International Federation for Structural Concrete (fib) |
| 2021 – Current | Member of ACATECH German National Academy of Science and Engineering |
| 2021 – Current | Member of the Research Council of the TU Dresden |
| 2021 – Current |
Chair of the RILEM Technical Committee ADC “Assessment of Additively Manufactured Concrete Materials and Structures” |
| 2020 – Current | Steering Committee Member and PI in the DFG Collaborative Research Centre TRR 280 “Design strategies for material-minimised carbon reinforced concrete structures – Principles of a new approach to construction”, joint project of TU Dresden and RWTH Aachen |
| 2020 – Current |
Editor of Sustainable Cement-Based Materials Journal, Elsevier |
| 2018 – Current | Editor of Materials and Structures Journal, Springer, Editor |
| 2018 – Current | Coordinator of the DFG Priority Program SPP 2005 „Opus Fluidum Futurum – Rheology of reactive, multiscale, multiphase construction materials“, 6 year collaborative project of 14 German research institutions |
| 2018 |
RILEM Fellow, International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures (RILEM) |
| 2017 – Current | Member of Science Academy of Saxony |
| 2017 – Current | Speaker of the DFG Research Training Group GRK 2250 “Mineral-bonded composites for enhanced structural impact safety“, 9 year collaborative project by TU Dresden, IPF Dresden and UNU Flores |
| 2017 | Wason Medal for Materials Research, American Concrete Institute (ACI) |
| 2016 – Current | Member of the Research Advisory Board of the German Committee for Reinforced Concrete (Deutscher Ausschuss für Stahlbeton, DAfStb) |
| 2016 |
Innovation Award of the bauma Munich, the world-wide biggest exhibition for construction machines |
| 2015 |
German Sustainability Award, GreenTec Award and German Raw Materials Efficiency Award for the collaborate Project C³ – Carbon Concrete Composites |
| 2013 – Current | Editor of Cement and Concrete Composites Journal, Elsevier |
| 2007 – Current |
Member of the Steering Committee of the International Federation for Structural Concrete (fib), Commission “Concrete“ |
| 2014 – 2021 | Leader of 4 collaborative projects and PI in several other collaborative projects in the framework of Zwanzig20 Project “C³ - Carbon Concrete Composites” funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research |
| 2014 – 2021 |
Chair of RILEM Technical Committee RSC-260 “Recommendations for Application of Super Absorbent Polymers in Concrete Construction“ |
| 2014 – 2018 | Member of the RILEM Bureau and RILEM Technical Activities Committee |
Supervision of Researchers in Early Career Phases
In the last five years, 14 doctoral dissertations and one habilitation treatise supervised by Prof. Mechtcherine have been successfully completed and defended.
Research focus
Development of new, sustainable, cement-based composite materials and processes for their production with special emphasis on fiber-reinforced concrete; tailored material design based on chemistry, rheology, fracture mechanics, etc.; investigation of the short- and long-term properties of new and existing mineral-based building materials (concrete, mortar, masonry); research into the mechanisms that determine material behavior and the means of influencing them in a targeted manner; modeling of building material behavior.
Organisation of international conferences (selection)
- 4th Intern. Conference on Concrete Repair “Concrete Solutions 2011“, 26.-29.09.2011 in Dresden, Proceedings: M. Grantham, V. Mechtcherine, U. Schneck (eds.), Taylor & Francis, 2012.
- 2nd International Conference on Application of superabsorbent polymers and other new admixtures in concrete construction, 14.-17.09.2014 in Dresden, Proceedings: V. Mechtcherine and Ch. Schröfl (eds.), RILEM Publications, Paris, 2014.
- 4th International Conference on Strain-hardening Cement-based Composites – SHCC4, 18.-20.09.2017 in Dresden, Proceedings: V. Mechtcherine, V. Slowik, P. Kabele (eds.), RILEM Bookseries, Springer, 2018.
- 2nd International RILEM Conference on Rheology and Processing of Construction Materials (RheoCon2) and the 9th International RILEM Symposium on Self-Compacting Concrete (SCC9), 8.-11. September 2019 in Dresden, Proceedings: V. Mechtcherine, K. Khayat, E. Secrieru, RILEM Bookseries, Springer, 2020.
- 3nd Int. Conference on Application of superabsorbent polymers and other new admixtures in concrete construction, 25.-27.11.2019 in Skukuza, Südafrika, Proceedings: W. P. Boshoff, R. Combrinck, V. Mechtcherine, M. Wyrzykowski (eds.), RILEM Bookseries, Springer, 2020.
- XI International Symposium on Fiber Reinforced Concrete - BEFIB 2024, 15.-18.09.2024 in Dresden, Proceedings: V. Mechtcherine, C. Signorini, D. Junger (eds.), RILEM Bookseries, Springer, 2024.
Further Information
| 2019 – Current |
Organiser of the Annual German Industry Seminar on 3D Concrete Printing |
| 2009 – Current | Organiser of the Annual Regional Industry Conference Dresdner Betontag |
| 2021 | 25th most cited researcher worldwide in the category Building & Construction according to DOI: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.5 |
| 2019 |
Authored an expert report to the German Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag) on Manufacturing Processes and New Materials for Construction 4.0 |