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Associate Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Philipp Preinstorfer has been assigned to the Institute of Load-bearing Structures (E212) at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at TU Wien as Associate Professor of Bionic Load-bearing Structures since October 1, 2024.

CV: Philipp Preinstorfer comes from Gmunden in Upper Austria. After studying civil engineering at TU Wien, he obtained his doctorate there in 2019 – summa cum laude – with a dissertation on „Zur Spaltrissbildung von textilbewehrtem Beton, opens an external URL in a new window“. As a postdoc at TU Wien, he was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2020, which took him to the University of Cambridge (UK) from 2021 to 2023.  In 2023, a successfully acquired tenure track position brought him back to TU Wien, which he has now completed with the qualification of Associate Professor. In addition to his academic work, he is co-founder of the WaLeWi association, which has been registered since 2018 and aims to realize the vision of communal, intergenerational and sustainable residential buildings.

Philipp Preinstorfer's scientific home is the Research Unit of Structural Concrete (E212-02) at the aforementioned institute. There he works on the further development of new materials and advanced construction techniques to realize the next generation of low-carbon cement-bound structures.

Publications by Philipp Preinstorfer in the Scopus, opens an external URL in a new window database and in ReposiTUm, opens an external URL in a new window.