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New professorships at the faculty in April 2025

Two new associate professors at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Portrait von Ottavia Zoboli und Lukas Eberhardsteiner

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Ottavia Zoboli

Ottavia Zoboli is Associate Professor of River Basin Management in Research Unit Water Quality Management at the Institute for Water Quality and Resource Management since 1 April 2025.

Ottavia completed her master's degree in Environmental Sciences at the Università degli Studi di Parma, opens an external URL in a new window in Italy and Water Science, Technology and Management at the Universidad de Salamanca, opens an external URL in a new window in Spain. In 2016, she received her doctorate from the FWF Doctoral College Water Resource Systems at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, TU Wien. Ottavia Zoboli then worked as a postdoctoral researcher and Assistant Professor at the Institute for Water Quality and Resource Management. In 2024, she habilitated and thus obtained her teaching qualification in the field of water quality and river basin management. Ottavia Zoboli has now successfully completed her tenure track position with the qualification of Associate Professor.

In her research work, Prof. Zoboli focuses intensively on water quality and river basin management, with a particular emphasis on nutrients and priority substances. Current publications can be found on the platform reposiTUm, opens an external URL in a new window.

Lukas Eberhardsteiner

Lukas Eberhardsteiner is working as Associate Professor for Structural Transport Engineering in Research Unit Road Engineering at the Institute of Transportation since 1 April 2025.

Lukas studied Civil Engineering and Infrastructure Management at TU Wien and obtained his doctorate at the Institute of Transportation in 2014. This was followed by a one-year research stay at the Department of Engineering Structures, opens an external URL in a new window at TU Delft. As a postdoc at TU Wien, Lukas Eberhardsteiner was able to secure a tenure track position in 2019 in the field of structural transport engineering and thus became an Assistant Professor in 2020. He subsequently obtained his Venia Docendi in the field of structural road engineering in 2024. Lukas Eberhardsteiner has now successfully qualified as an associate professor through his completed tanure track position.

Prof. Eberhardsteiner's research focuses on material and structural modelling in road construction and the mechanical behaviour of road construction materials. Publications by Lukas Eberhardsteiner can be found on the platform reposiTUm, opens an external URL in a new window.