© Tiss: Stefanie Elgeti

Univ.Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefanie Elgeti was appointed as University Professor of Lightweight Design at TU Wien with effect from October 1st, 2019. She is assigned to the Institute for Lightweight Design and Structural Biomechanics, opens an external URL in a new window (E317) of the Faculty of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at TU Wien.

CV: Stefanie Elgeti studied Mechanical Engineering, specialising in Manufacturing Techniques for Microsystems. She received her doctorate for the thesis "Free-Surface Flows in Shape Optimization of Extrusion Dies, opens an external URL in a new window" in 2011 and obtained her venia docendi, thus qualifying her to teach in the area of "Lightweight Design", with the habilitation, opens an external URL in a new window on "CAD-Conforming Finite Element Methods in Engineering Design" in 2016. Since the completion of her PhD thesis she was Head of the Research Group for "Production techniques" at CATS (Chair for Computational Analysis of Technical Systems) and later Deputy Head. She is still lecturer at CATS. In 2019, she joined TU Wien as a professor of Lightweight Design, where she has headed the Research Unit of Lightweight Design, opens an external URL in a new window since 2020.

Special roles at TU Wien: During the term from October 1, 2022, to September 30, 2025, Stefanie Elgeti was a voting member of the Senate; since October 1, 2025, she has been serving as the Third Deputy of the Senate leadership team.

She is the Head of the Research Unit of Lightweight Design, opens an external URL in a new window (E317-01) at TU Wien and, since 2023, also head of the Research Group for Numerical Analysis and Design Methods  (E317-01-1). Her current research field is modelling, simulation and numerical design of components and production processes.

Publications of Stefanie Elgeti in the Scopus, opens an external URL in a new window database and in ReposiTUm, opens an external URL in a new window.