© Tiss: Bernhard Pichler

Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Bernhard Pichler, opens an external URL in a new window was appointed as University Professor of Structural Analysis and Experimental Mechanics at the TU Wien with effect of March 1, 2020. He is assigned to the Institute of Mechanics of Materials and Structures, opens in new window (E202) in the Faculty of Civil Engineering, opens in new window.

CV: Bernhard Pichler studied Civil Engineering at the TU Wien and achieved his PhD in the year 2003 (with distinction) addressing the following theme “Parameter identification as the basis for prognoses in geotechnical engineering, opens an external URL in a new window”. From 2005 to 2009 he was PostDoc abroad, e.g. at the ENPC in Paris. In 2009, he obtained his Venia Docendi, thus qualifying him to teach Strength of Materials and Structural Analysis, with a postdoctoral thesis (habilitation) on the topic "Strength of microheterogeneous materials exhibiting brittle failure, opens an external URL in a new window". He has been the scientific director of the Laboratory for Macroscopic Materials Testing at the IMWS/TU Wien since March 2010. Since 2011 he is Associate Professor. In 2024, he secured an ERC Synergy Grant on the topic ‘What causes concrete to fatigue?’. He was the recipient of the Best Teacher Award from the Faculty of Civil Engineering in 2018 and 2022. In addition, he received – jointly with Assoc. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Mehdi Aminbaghai – the Best Lecture Award in 2017 and the Best Lecture Award in 2019 for the lecture on Structural Analysis - Statics.

He is head of the Research Unit for Structural Analysis and Experimental Mechanics, opens in new window (E202-03) and the Laboratory for Macroscopic Material Testing, opens in new window of TU Wien. His research focuses on the engineering mechanics of materials and structures. His research interests relate in particular to cement-bound materials.

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