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Meet the Teaching Staff

Here you can find an overview of all lecturers of the study programme. To contact the lecturer, please click on the respective chair.

Simply click on the corresponding category and you will be taken to the relevant entries.


Lecturers of the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Torsten Wichtmann

Course Director

Chair of Soil Mechanics, Foundation Engineering and Environmental Geotechnics
Room: IC 5-115

SubSurf lectures:

  • Soil Behaviour and Simple Constitutive Models for Soils
  • Design of Geotechnical Structures
  • Problematic Soils and Soil Dynamics
  • Advanced Constitutive Models for Soils
  • Practical Soil Mechanics
  • Environmental Geotechnics

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Thewes

Institute for Tunneling and Construction Management
Room: IC 6/127

SubSurf courses:

  • Conventional and Mechanised Tunneling: Design-Engineering-Technologies
  • Practical Training on Tunneling and Pipeline Construction Techniques
  • Technologies in Mechanised Tunneling
  • Foundation Engineering and Utility Pipe Construction: Design-Engineering-Technologies
  • Operation and Maintenance of Tunnels and Utility Pipes
  • Aspects of Design and Construction of Tunnels and other Subsurface Infrastructure in Practice

Prof. Dr. techn. Günther Meschke

Institute for Structural Mechanics
Room: IC 6/185

SubSurf courses:

  • Computational Methods 1
  • Numerical Simulation in Geotechnics and Tunneling
  • Computational Methods 2

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Mark

Institute of Concrete Structures
Room: IC 5/185

SubSurf courses:

  • Design of Tunnel Linings

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf Breitenbücher

Chair of Building Materials
Room: IC 6-117

SubSurf courses:

  • Design of Tunnel Linings

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus König

Chair of Computing in Engineering
Room: IC 6/59

SubSurf courses:

  • Modern Programming Concepts in Engineering

Prof. Dr. Andreas Vogel

Research Group: High Performance Computing
Room: IC 6/155

SubSurf coureses:

  • High Performance Computing on Multi and Many Core Processors
  • High Performance Computing on Clusters

Dr.-Ing. A. Lavasan

Chair of Soil Mechanics, Foundation Engineering and Environmental Geotechnics
Room: IC 5-99

SubSurf lectures:

  • Computational Methods 1
  • Numerical Simulation in Geotechnics and Tunneling
  • Computational Methods 2

Dr.-Ing. Diethard König

Chair of Soil Mechanics, Foundation Engineering and Environmental Geotechnics
Room: IC 5-113

SubSurf courses:

  • Environmental Geotechnics

Dr.-Ing. W. Baille

Chair of Soil Mechanics, Foundation Engineering and Environmental Geotechnics
Room: IC 5-109

SubSurf courses:

  • Environmental Geotechnics
  • Problematic Soils and Soil Dynamics
  • Practical Soil Mechanics

Dr.-Ing. Meisam Goudarzy

Chair of Soil Mechanics, Foundation Engineering and Environmental Geotechnics
Room: IC 5-.97

Dr.-Ing. Britta Schoesser

Institute for Tunneling and Construction Management
Room: IC 6/127

SubSurf courses:

  • Conventional and Mechanised Tunneling: Design-Engineering-Technologies
  • Foundation Engineering and Utility Pipe Construction: Design-Engineering-Technologies

Lecturers of the Faculty of Geosciences

Prof. Dr. Joerg Renner

Experimental Geophysics
Room: IA 4-155

SubSurf courses:

  • Applied Geophysics
  • Selected Topics in Reservoir Characterization

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Friederich

Chair of Geophysics
IA 4-089

SubSurf courses:

  • Ground Exploration Methods

Prof. Dr. Tobias Backers

Chair of Engineering Geology / Rock Mechanics
IA 3-127

SubSurf courses:

  • Geology of the Earth's Crust

Prof. Dr. Christophe Pascal

Structural Geology
IA 4-59

SubSurf courses:

  • Geology of the Earth's Crust

Prof. Rebecca Harrington

Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics

SubSurf courses:

  • Seismotectonics and Seismic Hazard

Prof. Dr. Stefan Wohnlich

Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics

SubSurf courses:

  • Groundwater Hydraulics
  • Hydrogeological Methods

Dr. Thomas Heinze

Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics

SubSurf courses:

  • Groundwater Hydraulics
  • Hydrogeological Methods

Dr. Alessandro Verdeccia

Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics

SubSurf courses:

  • Seismotectonics and Seismic Hazard

Lecturers of the Faculty of Mathematics

Prof. Dr. Katharina Kormann

Research Group Numerics
Room: IB 3-129

SubSurf courses:

  • Numerical Methods and Stochastics

Prof. Dr. Johannes Lederer

Research Group Stochastics

SubSurf courses:

  • Numerical Methods and Stochastics

Prof. Dr. Barney Bramham

Research Group Analysis and Topology

SubSurf courses:

  • Mathematical Aspects of Differential Equations and Numerical Mathematics

Lecturers of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering/ Fraunhofer IEG

Prof. Dr. Rolf Bracke

Geothermal Energy Systems

SubSurf courses:

  • Drilling Engineering
  • Geothermal Energy Systems

Lecturers of the University of Applied Science, Bochum (BO)

Prof. Dr. Erik H. Saenger

Chair of Reservoir Engineering and Rock Physics
Room: G1 1-005

SubSurf courses:

  • Reservoir Engineering
  • Digital Rock Physics