Günther Meschke - Curriculum Vitae#
Education and Academic Degrees
- 1996 Habilitation and Venia Legendi for "Strength of Materials and Structural Mechanics", Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- 1989 Graduation to Dr. techn. summa cum laude, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- 1983 Graduation to Dipl.Ing (with honors), Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- 1977 - 1983 Diploma Study of Civil Engineering, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Professional Career
- 2014 - present Speaker of the Research Department "Subsurface Modeling and Engineering" at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
- 2010 - present Speaker of the Collaborative Research Center 837 ,,Interaction modeling for mechanized tunneling"
- 1998 - present Full Professor for Structural Mechanics at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
- 2012 Offer for Professorship ,,Structural Analysis” at Graz University of Technology, declined.
- 2010 - 2012 Speaker of the Section "Natural and Engineering Sciences" of the Ruhr-University Research School
- 2004 - 2006 Dean of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
- 2004 - 2005 Director of Institute for Structural Engineering, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Scientific Affiliations
- 2017 - present Member of the General Council of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM)
- 2017 - present Member of the Programme Accreditation Commission of ASIIN
- 2016 - present Member of the Austrian Science Board (ÖAW)
- 2016 - present Member of the Review Board ”Applied Mechanics, Statics and Dynamics“ of the German Science Foundation (DFG)
- 2015 - present Member of the Executive Board of the Int. Association „Baustatik-Baupraxis” (Structual Analysis and Engineering)
- 2015 - present Member of the Task Group ”Modeling of Fibre Reinforced Concrete Structures“ of the International Association for Structural Concrete (fib)
- 2012 - present Foreign Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2010 - present Ordinary Member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)
- 2010 - present Ordinary Member of the Academy of Sciences and the Arts of Northrhine-Westphalia
- 2010 - present Member of the Committee of Properties of Materials of the Engineering Mechanics Division, ASCE
- 2008 - 2013 Member of the Executive Board of the German Association for Computational Mechanics (GACM)
- 2008 - 2010 Member of the Senate of Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Editorial activities
Associate Editor of 1 scientific journal, Member of the Editorial Board of 5 scientific journals