Professor and Director of the Institute for Construction Materials at Dresden University of Technology (TUD), and Adjunct Professor at UNU-FLORES.
Viktor Mechtcherine has been a Professor and the Director of the Institute for Construction Materials at TUD Dresden University of Technology in Germany, since 2006. He is a member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering and the Science Academy of Saxony. Prof. Mechtcherine is also Editor of the Journals “Cement and Concrete Composites” and “Sustainable Cement-Based Materials” as well as Speaker of the Cluster of Excellence “CARE – Climate-neutral and resource-efficient construction” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Furthermore, he is a RILEM Fellow and has been honored with the Wason Medal for Materials Research by the American Concrete Institute (ACI) and Innovation Awards from both bauma and fib.
Research Interests:
• Sustainable construction
• Digital concrete technologies
• Mineral-based fiber-reinforced composites