Prof. Dr. Duo Liu

Professor (W3) and Head of the Chair of Railway Track Engineering
"Friedrich List" Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences

Senior Solution Engineer
Konux GmbH
"Thinking railroads in engineering language"

• Management of a development team:
  • Development of the Digital Twin for various switch types with the help of Big Data
  • Further development of AI algorithms for automatic detection and classification of individual faults in turnouts

Development engineer
Research and development, Vossloh Fastening Systems GmbH

• Foundation and personal responsibility of the simulation department (FEM and MKS)
• Supporter and sub-project manager of the digitization transformation
• Project management of several research and development projects:
  • Development of a new rail fastening system with higher natural frequencies (patented)
  • Academic noise and vibration analysis for new fastening systems
  • Development of a new plastic sleeper (patented) - Dimensioning of the sleeper geometry
  • Development of a new tension clamp for heavy goods traffic (patented)
• Supervision of student theses

Research Associate
Testing Office for Traffic Route Construction, Technical University of Munich

• Teaching:
  • Lecture "Numerical simulation in traffic route construction"
  • Supervising, correcting and evaluating student theses (Master)
• Research:
  • Measurement group leader of numerous track measurements in operating tracks (elongation, displacement, acceleration)
  • FEM and MKS model calculations on the subject of vehicle/track interaction (co-simulation)
  • Noise and vibration investigations

Doctor of Engineering (Dr. - Ing.) SUMMA CUM LAUDE, Chair and Testing Office for Traffic Route Construction, Technical University of Munich
Dissertation: "The influence of track elasticity to the performance of vehicle track interaction"

Karl Vossloh Innovation Prize 2016 for an outstanding dissertation, awarded by the Karl Vossloh Foundation in the Donors' Association for the Promotion of Sciences and Humanities in Germany

Master of Science (M.Sc.), Transport Systems
Technical University of Munich
Specializations: Traffic route construction, traffic engineering and traffic planning
Master thesis: "Testing and dynamic simulation of track stiffness on vertical and horizontal direction"

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.),
Transport Engineering
Technology University of Shanghai, China
Specializations: Road construction and traffic engineering
Bachelor thesis: "Design of public transport interconnection at terminal stations for mega cities"

Tian, Q., Implementation of a Comprehensive Methodology for Structural Dynamics and NVH Simulation Incorporating MBS, FEM and Ray Tracing, Technische Universität Berlin