Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steffen Freitag
Steffen Freitag is Professor for Structural Analysis at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) since 2021.
His research work is mainly focused on Uncertainty Quantification and Artificial Intelligence in Structural Mechanics. He studied Civil Engineering at Technische Universität Dresden from 2000 to 2005 with specialization in Structural Engineering.
From 2005 to 2012, he worked as Research Associate at the Institute for Structural Analysis at TU Dresden and finished his PhD in 2010 within the DFG (German Research Foundation) Collaborative Research Center 528 “Textile Reinforcements for Structural Strengthening and Retrofitting” at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at TU Dresden.
In 2011 and 2012, he spent one year as Visiting Scholar at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
Steffen Freitag was Postdoc and Research Group Leader (2012 – 2016) and Akademischer Rat and Research Group Leader (2016 – 2021) at the Institute for Structural Mechanics, Ruhr University Bochum. During his Postdoc time at Ruhr University Bochum, he mainly contributed as PI and as head of the integrated graduate school to the DFG Collaborative Research Center 837 “Interaction Modelling in Mechanized Tunnelling and as PI and complex leader to the DFG Priority Program 1886 “Polymorphic Uncertainty Modelling for the Numerical Design of Structures”.
From 2017 to 2018, he was the Spokesman of the Junges Kolleg at the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.
Since 2023, Steffen Freitag is Dean of Study Affairs in Civil Engineering and member of the Department Board at the Department of Civil Engineering, Geo and Environmental Sciences at KIT.
Since 2024, he is member of the DFG Review Board on Construction Engineering and Architecture. In 2025, he will continue his cooperation with Ruhr University Bochum as PI of the Collaborative Research Center 1683 “Methods of Interaction for the Modular Reuse of Existing Load-bearing Structures”.