Prof. Dr. Ueli Angst
Prof. Dr. Ueli Angst
Associate Professor at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
Additional information
Course Catalogue
Spring Semester 2025
| Number | Unit |
|---|---|
| 101-0679-00L | Non-destructive Testing of Civil Engineering Structures |
| 101-6615-10L | Materials in Civil Engineering II |
Mission
My mission is to develop new and fundamental understanding of corrosion mechanisms to enable better assessments and predictions of the performance of engineered materials and structures across disciplines. I am mostly concerned with corrosion of metals in porous media, such as steel in concrete or metals in soil. A particular aim is to improve the safety, sustainability, and durability of civil infrastructures.
To address these challenges, we use experimental and computational methods in the area of corrosion science, electrochemistry, materials science, reactive mass transport, poromechanics, and civil engineering. We are committed to provide mechanistic insight into corrosion mechanisms and its effects on structural behavior, develop methods and sensors for monitoring purposes, robot-assisted inspection methods, and corrosion mitigation strategies.
Short Biography
I obtained my degrees in civil engineering from ETH Zurich in Switzerland (MSc) and from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, in Trondheim, Norway (PhD, 2011). From 2011 to 2016, I held a part-time position as Postdoc at the Institute for Building Materials at ETH Zurich, and simultaneously I held a part-time position as a corrosion consultant at the external page Swiss Society for Corrosion Protection, which is the leading agency in the field of corrosion in Switzerland. In 2017, I established my research group at ETH Zurich, thanks to an assistant professorship grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation (2016) as well as an ERC Starting Grant (2019). In June 2024, I was promoted to an associate professor at ETH Zurich.
Honors and awards: In 2017, I was honored to be awarded the Robert L’Hermite Medal, which is an award yearly given by external page RILEM to a researcher who has made an exceptional scientific contribution to the field of construction materials and structures. RILEM is worldwide the largest organization promoting scientific research in this field. In 2021, I received the Dandelion Entrepreneurship Award, awarded by the ETH Entrepreneur Club & the ETH AI Center, recognizing professors for their outstanding efforts to promote entrepreneurship at ETH Zurich. Furthermore, I received a number of “best paper awards” from journals and at conferences.
Professional and editorial engagement
- President of the external page Swiss Society for Corrosion Protection
- Co-founder of ETH-SpinOff external page DuraMon AG
- Associate editor of Elsevier’s open access journal CEMENT
- Associate editor of the open access journal RILEM Technical Letters
- Editorial board member of Elsevier’s open access journal Corrosion Communications
- Member of the Editorial Advisory Committee of the journal Materials and Structures
Scientific society memberships and committee work
- Member of external page RILEM, the international union of laboratories and experts in construction materials, systems and structures. I am engaged in various RILEM technical committees.
- Chair of external page working group “Korrosionsschutz im konstruktiven Ingenieurbau” of GfKORR, the Association for Corrosion Protection of German speaking countries (Gesellschaft für Korrosionsschutz, Frankfurt, Germany).
- Steering committee of the Swiss Corrosion Science Network (external page www.swisscorr.ch), a partnership of Swiss industrial and scientific institutions working in the field of corrosion (since 2020).
- Member of fib (external page International Federation for Structural Concrete). I am engaged in various fib task groups.
- Member of the German Society for Non-Destructive Testing (external page DGZfP)
- Member of the American Concrete Institute (external page ACI)
- Member of the Association for Materials Protection and Performance, the worldwide corrosion association (external page AMPP)