Welcome to Dr Philipp Preinstorfer, who has recently joined the CIRG as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow. He joins us from the structural concrete research team of TU Wien, where he previously worked as a Postdoc having received his doctoral degree in 2019 on a contribution to the splitting failure mode in textile-reinforced concrete.
Philipp Preinstorfer's research focuses on the use of innovative, high-performance materials in concrete construction, with the aim of saving resources and contributing to a more sustainable construction industry. He was awarded the FCP prize for sustainable developments in civil engineering for his master's thesis on a new type of transition structure for integral bridges. In his research he also examined the application potential of non-metallic reinforcement in concrete infrastructure building, both for innovative textile reinforcement as well as fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP)-bars. His expertise in this field and the fundamental knowledge of the Concrete Infrastructure research group on functionally graded concrete represents an ideal synergy for the development of next generation low carbon cementitious structures, which is the main objective of his Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship.
He is a member of various committees and working groups as well as national and international associations. He is also the co-founder of the association WaLeWi, which is dedicated to a more sustainable housing and living.