Professors

Mission Statement

Our research contributes to the better understanding of complex natural and anthropogenic flow and transport processes shaping riverine environments.  We combine theoretical and experimental work to address knowledge gaps at the water-biota and water-sediment interface to aid the development of tools for sustainable and ecologically-appropriate river management strategies and to solve practical problems mainly related to morphodynamics and flood prevention.

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Technology and space, though seemingly “neutral” and “for all”, are socially constructed and inherently intertwined with cultural understandings of gender roles and relations. We work at the intersection of Social Sciences, especially Gender Studies, and various fields of Engineering with the overall aim to disclose, discuss and deepen our knowledge on the interdependencies of society and its inequalities on the one hand and spatial structures, technical artefacts as well as engineering, design and planning processes on the other. Ultimately, we aim to contribute to a more reflective and less discriminatory academia and society.

Mission Statement

Estimating anthropogenic contributions to biogeochemical cycling of trace elements and pollutants is based on profound knowledge of biogeochemical processes and interactions in terrestrial and marine ecosystems to predict future changes of fluxes of trace elements and pollutants.

IIM | Institut für Infrastruktur- und Immobilienmanagement | Institute for Infrastructure and Real Estate Management

Honorarprofessor Torsten Böger

Schleinitzstraße 23A
38106 Braunschweig

Telefon: 0531 / 391-3380
torsten.boeger(at)autobahn.de 
https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/iim

IfEV | Institut für Eisenbahnwesen und Verkehrssicherung

Honorarprofessor Dr. rer. nat. Jens Braband

Pockelsstraße 3
38106 Braunschweig

Tel.: +49 531 226 3231
j.braband(at)tu-bs.de
https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/ifev

Mission Statement

Urban Design as we understand it is a balancing act between idealism and pragmatism, creativity and structure, future visions, and current needs. It is also a long-term process with a huge social, environmental, economic, and energetic impact. We therefore aim to create visions and designs für sustainable future cities.

LWI waba | Leichtweiß-Institut für Wasserbau Abteilung Wasserbau und Gewässermorphologie

Honorarprofessor Prof. Dr.-Ing. Johann Buß

Beethovenstraße 51a
38106 Braunschweig

Tel.: +49 (0)531 391 3999
Fax: +49 (0)531 391 8184
Email: waba(at)tu-braunschweig.de
https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/lwi/wasserbau/mitarbeiter

Mission Statement

Understanding how biodiversity is developing in agricultural landscapes, which are the causal factors for the development, which management options exist, and which effects alternative options would have is the basis for developing concepts for sustainable land use.

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Developing the wastewater sector towards a circular economy: water reuse, resource recovery, production of renewable bio-energy while removing pathogens and pollutants by applying multi-barrier concepts. Resource oriented sanitation concepts (NASS), resource economy and materials flow management, transformation-concepts for the wastewater sector.

IGÖ | Institut für Geoökologie

apl. Prof. Dr. Axel Don

Langer Kamp 19c
38106 Braunschweig

geooekologie(at)tu-braunschweig.de
www.tu-braunschweig.de/geooekologie 

Mission Statement

The IBEA teaches and researches at the interface of passive and active building components in architecture. The aim of our applied building research is to develop strategies for districts and buildings that create sustainable living space with robust construction methods, simple low-tech systems and holistic approaches.

Mission Statement

Building History provides an immense source of knowledge on the transformations within our societies. The true value of historic buildings lies not in their beauty or by conveying a feeling of identity. They document how people lived, where they were governed, how they practised their religious beliefs etc., and are thus a historic source in their own right.

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Both the individual mobility of people and the planning of urban spaces are changing in the context of climate change and increasing digitalization. Our research focuses on innovative methods for surveying, modeling, and managing traffic to create livable and efficient cities.

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Our mission is to develop efficient and accurate numerical models for transport problems in the natural and urban environment. Our approach is focused on the application of scalable kinetic methods describing matter as an ensemble of particles, rather than either individual molecules or a continuum.

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The world faces climate change, extreme coastal hazards, rapid urban expansion at coasts and the increasing demand on natural marine resources. Our research activities are directed towards understanding and prediction of hydro- and morphodynamic processes in both natural and constructed environments. We develop sustainable, innovative, nature-friendly solutions and strategies for coastal management and protection as well as marine food and energy resources.

Mission Statement

Architectural Design is creative exploration. It requires the observation and evaluation of the environment and its history in order to develop strategies for mastering current and future challenges. It requires the empathatic understanding of the collective as well as the courage of the individual to develop architectural strategies in the search for alternative ecological, functional, formal, technical, artistic and cultural possibilities.

Mission Statement

New strategies for proper waste and water management are needed in emerging and developing countries, to meet existential challenges in the context of climate change. The research focusses waste, plastic and microplastic waste prevention strategies as well as questions related to water-energy-nexus and urban water security index.

Mission Statement

Our goal is to explore the latest digital design and construction technologies, including additive manufacturing, robotics and augmented reality to create a more sustainable and circular built environment. By reducing material consumption and waste, we aim to enable sustainable building practices while exploring the impact of these technologies on architectural and structural design.

ISSW | Institut für Siedlungswasserwirtschaft

Honorarprofessor Dipl.-Ing. Andreas Hartmann
Pockelsstr. 2a
38106 Braunschweig

Telefon: +49 (531) 391-7936

E-Mail: isww(at)tu-braunschweig.de

https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/isww

Mission Statement

We develop reliable and efficient computational methods that bridge the gap between length scales from nanometers to meters for solving multi-physics problems in conjunction with both 3D imaging and in-situ testing. Our activities span a broad range of applications, from porous media like concrete, rock, and soil, to cutting-edge energy storage materials.

Mission Statement

The Institute of Media and Design _IMD, deals with crossmedia interdependence of architectural design and new media processes. Engagement in architecture on computerbased information is at the center of the institute's profile. Due to proceeding mediatisation and digitalisation of nearly all aspects of living, architecture, too, will growingly have to cope with the process-related and inscenatorical dimensions of design spanning from simulation of any form of behavior, whether social or physical, up to conceiving virtual and hybrid worlds.

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Our mission is to study and characterize organic materials used in construction including: combination of organic and inorganic materials, development of new experimental methods and techniques for material and interface.

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To meet the increasing demands of our fast moving modern society efficient management of infrastructure and real estate is needed within the whole lifecycle. Especially the aspects of sustainable development, operation, maintenance and financing become more important.

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Landscape architecture is a unique non-verbal communication medium for conducting dialogues about our built and natural environment. Designing characteristic places capable of endowing identities is one of the central duties of (landscape) architecture intending to offer viable and aesthetically appealing places in which people can live. We have to discuss new points of reference and models for tomorrow’s open spaces.

Mission Statement

Our goal is to explore the latest digital design and construction technologies, including additive manufacturing, robotics and augmented reality to create a more sustainable and circular built environment. By reducing material consumption and waste, we aim to enable sustainable building practices while exploring the impact of these technologies on architectural and structural design.

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Artistic work as we understand it is process oriented and never primarily determined by its use. Our goal is to foster dialogue and collaborative models of working. We work 1:1 with many different, often recycled materials, establishing knowledge about methods of artistic design and form-finding. We encourage critical thinking and questioning of predefined structures via artistic reflection.

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Research and teaching aim at modeling the stess-deformation behavior of civil engineering structures. Limit states concerning instabilities and failure as well as coupled multi-field processes are in focus, employing adequate numerical methods as finite element or discrete element analysis.

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We use and develop theoretical methods – conceptual, mathematical, and numerical models – to study ecohydrological processes in urban and terrestrial systems, to support sustainable water and ecosystem management in these systems.

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In many parts of the world, there is a growing demand for rail transportation. Our mission is to provide excellent expertise in railway operations and signalling to support the revitalisation and modernisation of railway systems wordwide. A key element of this is international knowledge transfer.

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The Institute for Experimental Architecture sees itself as a laboratory where students can explore and apply new ideas and experimental approaches to design tasks in order to find solutions to today's social, spatiotemporal, economic and environmental problems and challenges.

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The IKE regards itself as a think tank that places emphasis on the exploration and implementation of innovative methods, technologies and theories in architecture at all scales. Dedicated research groups along with a network of specialists exchange ideas on building the framework for the interdisciplinary research activities of the institute, focusing on the fields of industrial and healthcare building.

Mission Statement

In the face of epochal urban transformations and growing socio-spatial inequalities, architecture – as a field, discipline, and profession – will need to reconfigure long-established and habitual ways of doing, practices, mechanisms as well as operations. Tackling this directly through the development of transformative narratives is at the core of our work.

LWI waba | Leichtweiß-Institut für Wasserbau Abteilung Wasserbau und Gewässermorphologie

Honorarprofessor Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Schmidt

Beethovenstraße 51a
38106 Braunschweig

Tel.: +49 (0)531 391 3999
Fax: +49 (0)531 391 8184
Email: waba(at)tu-braunschweig.de
https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/lwi/wasserbau/mitarbeiter

Mission Statement

Our research focuses on the integrated consideration of water quantity and water quality for surface and groundwater in the context of hydrological extremes and associated risks. We seek to deepen our understanding of the interactions between hydrological processes and human interventions. For this goal, we develop methods, simulation models and tools for the sustainable and flexible management of future water resources systems.

Mission Statement

Our research focuses on the integrated consideration of water quantity and water quality for surface and groundwater in the context of hydrological extremes and associated risks. We seek to deepen our understanding of the interactions between hydrological processes and human interventions. For this goal, we develop methods, simulation models and tools for the sustainable and flexible management of future water resources systems.

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Designing is a constant tightrope walk between intuition and knowledge, a creative process ranging from integral consideration to individual interpretation. Reducing it to a rational planning process and limiting it to the comprehensible is bound to fail, since designing is always an artistic process as well.

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Sustainable use of our environment, especially water resources, depends on a thorough understanding of the processes that shape and alter our habitats. We focus on the interactions between climate, environmental dynamics and humans on different time scales and are especially interested in the regional expression of global climate change in Europe, the Tibetan Plateau, the Himalaya, Arabia and the Americas.

Mission Statement

The IBB combines a profound theoretical knowledge and practical experience concerning economical aspects of the construction industry as well as construction methods and management. Our goal is to integrate this competence in the fields of teaching, research and professional education. Hence, IBB regards itself as an institute in the interface of engineering and economic sciences.

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The Institute of Building Construction and Timber Structures focuses on the investigation of spatial and planar structures from current and historical constructions. More challenges regard material behaviour, simulation of building physics and the preservation of existing structures.

IS | Institut für Stahlbau

Hononorarprofessor Dr.-Ing. Michael Siems

Beethovenstr. 51 
38106 Braunschweig

Tel: +49 531 391 3373
Fax: +49 531 391 4592
E-Mail: sekretariat(at)stahlbau.tu-braunschweig.de
https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/stahlbau

Mission Statement

Geotechnics, the modern term for Foundation Engineering and Soil Mechanics, is an essential part of Civil Engineering, present in each engineering project. Due to the fact that all constructions are in interaction with the subsoil, the knowledge about the soil behavior and the soil-structure interaction is crucial. The complexity of the naturally-formed underground requires continuing research.

Mission Statement

Our main interest is in freshwater biodiversity. Freshwater ecosystems are the most endangered ecosystems worldwide. Most freshwaters are stressed by human activity, such as habitat alteration and pollution, and increasingly also by climate change. We investigate how such pressures impact the species richness and ecological interactions between species and how freshwater communities may be changed with ongoing global change.

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Steel plays an increasingly important role for light-weight and wide-spanning civil engineering structures with advantages in economy and sustainability. Our work includes fundamental research as well as application-oriented research – also in fields connected to steel construction as wind engineering and building preservation.

Mission Statement

The major requirements of modern road pavements are safety, functionality and sustainability. Our research work focuses on these requirements, emphasizing the increase in durability of asphalt pavements by means of structural optimisation for making the design, selection of materials and construction, rehabilitation & recycling techniques as fully perfect and effective as possible.

Mission Statement

The focus of our work is the development of fire-safe buildings. Therefore we combine experimental research as well as numerical modelling in the field of structural fire engineering and fire dynamics.