Professor of Structural Analysis at Leibniz Universität Hannover – ForWind , Head of Hannover site of Fraunhofer-IWES

Biography

Professor Raimund Rolfes graduated in civil engineering from Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH). He received his Ph.D. in Computational Mechanics from LUH and his habilitation (2nd Ph.D) from TU Dresden. He has worked for 16 years for the German Aerospace Center (DLR), where he ran a department for computational analysis of fiber composite structures. Since 2005 he has been head of the Institute for Structural Analysis at LUH. Since 2010 he is also head of the Hannover branch of the Fraunhofer institute for wind energy and energy system technology (FhG-IWES). He is working on analysis of composite materials and structures, computational dynamics and structural health monitoring. Professor Rolfes won the best paper award of the International Journal on Structural Stability and Dynamics in 2010, received the Eric Reissner Medal in 2012 and, in his role as steering committee member of the German Research Alliance Wind Energy, won the North German Science award in 2014.