This is a tenure-track junior professorship leading to a tenured W2 posi-
tion. For further information about the tenure track process, please visit
www.rwth-aachen.de/tenuretrack.
We are inviting applications for a junior professor position in the area of
automated fabrication of concrete structures, to be filled as soon as pos-
sible. The professorship is a key early-career appointment within the
Cluster of Excellence EXC 3115 Climate-Neutral and Resource-Efficient
Construction (CARE). The professorship will play a central role in the sci-
entific operation and further development of CARE*fab – the Laboratory
for Digital Fabrication of Concrete Structures, one of the cluster’s core re-
search infrastructures. The position is affiliated with the Institute of Struc-
tural Concrete within the Faculty of Civil Engineering at RWTH Aachen
University.
The professorship addresses one of the key future challenges of struc-
tural engineering: how to transform concrete construction from a largely
traditional and craft-based process into a digital, automated, resource-ef-
ficient, and climate-neutral production paradigm. Research will focus on
developing the theoretical foundations, design models, and experimental
methods required for the precise and resource-efficient design and fabri-
cation of plain and reinforced concrete structures using steel reinforce-
ment as well as alternative reinforcement systems, with particular empha-
sis on automated off-site manufacturing. The successful candidate is ex-
pected to have an outstanding research profile in structural engineering,
with particular expertise in structural concrete, and to advance the future
of concrete construction through the application and further development
of modern manufacturing and automation technologies. The overall ob-
jective is to develop innovative manufacturing technologies together with
the associated structural models and design approaches that quantify
process-induced effects and incorporate them into the structural design
of reinforced concrete structures. This will provide the scientific basis for
the reliable assessment, design and future standardization of automati-
cally manufactured reinforced concrete structures.
Research is expected to address the following areas:
- Robot-assisted manufacturing and post-processing technologies,
- Structural behavior, including load-bearing capacity, cracking and de-
