Prof. Dr. Andreas Taras

Prof. Dr Andreas Taras has been Full Professor of Steel and Composite Structures at ETH Zurich since October 2019, with overall responsibility for didactics and research in the application of steel as a structural material at D-BAUG. His research activities focus on the stability and fatigue behaviour of metallic elements, on the use of non-linear analysis methods and artificial intelligence in the design of steel , steel-concrete and steel-timber composite structures, on the fire performance of steel-based structural elements, and on the determination of live loads and their effects in road and railway bridges. He is active in various European and national technical standardisation groups and associations, including SIA, DIN, ASI, CEN and the European Convention for Constructional Steelwork, and his work has led to numerous innovations in Eurocodes 3 and 4. Prior to his appointment at ETH, he was at the Graz University of Technology in Austria, where he obtained his PhD in 2010, and at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich, where he held the professorship for steel construction from 2016. As an engineering design, peer reviewing engineer and technical expert, he also participated in the realisation of various bridges, large-span roofs and metal structures in hydro and wind power plant construction.