Automated Fabrication of Concrete Structures Junior Professorship (W1) with tenure track towards W2

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Junior Professor

(W1, Tenure Track W2)

in Automated Fabrication of Concrete

Structures

at the Faculty of Civil Engineering

This is a tenure-track junior professorship leading to a tenured W2 posi-

tion. For further information about the tenure track process, please visit

www.rwth-aachen.de/tenuretrack.

We are inviting applications for a junior professor position in the area of

automated fabrication of concrete structures, to be filled as soon as pos-

sible. The professorship is a key early-career appointment within the

Cluster of Excellence EXC 3115 Climate-Neutral and Resource-Efficient

Construction (CARE). The professorship will play a central role in the sci-

entific operation and further development of CARE*fab – the Laboratory

for Digital Fabrication of Concrete Structures, one of the cluster’s core re-

search infrastructures. The position is affiliated with the Institute of Struc-

tural Concrete within the Faculty of Civil Engineering at RWTH Aachen

University.

The professorship addresses one of the key future challenges of struc-

tural engineering: how to transform concrete construction from a largely

traditional and craft-based process into a digital, automated, resource-ef-

ficient, and climate-neutral production paradigm. Research will focus on

developing the theoretical foundations, design models, and experimental

methods required for the precise and resource-efficient design and fabri-

cation of plain and reinforced concrete structures using steel reinforce-

ment as well as alternative reinforcement systems, with particular empha-

sis on automated off-site manufacturing. The successful candidate is ex-

pected to have an outstanding research profile in structural engineering,

with particular expertise in structural concrete, and to advance the future

of concrete construction through the application and further development

of modern manufacturing and automation technologies. The overall ob-

jective is to develop innovative manufacturing technologies together with

the associated structural models and design approaches that quantify

process-induced effects and incorporate them into the structural design

of reinforced concrete structures. This will provide the scientific basis for

the reliable assessment, design and future standardization of automati-

cally manufactured reinforced concrete structures.

Research is expected to address the following areas:

• Robot-assisted manufacturing and post-processing technologies,
• Structural behavior, including load-bearing capacity, cracking and de-

formation, of automatically manufactured reinforced concrete struc-

tures,

• Digital process chains and AI-supported production optimization,
• Experiment-based characterization of material and structural perfor-

mance under automated manufacturing conditions.

Teaching is a core mission of RWTH Aachen University. The successful

candidate will be expected to develop and deliver courses in the field of

automated fabrication of concrete structures within the German- and Eng-

lish-language Bachelor’s and Master’s programs in Civil Engineering.

Candidates should have a university degree and a particular ability to un-

dertake academic work, which is generally demonstrated by an out-

standing doctorate. Teaching ability and dedication are essential and the

application should include proof of this. Fluent German is not required to

start the position but the successful candidate will be expected to hold

classes in German within the first 5 years.

As the professorship is embedded within the Cluster of Excellence EXC

3115 Climate-Neutral and Resource-Efficient Construction (CARE), active

and committed participation in the cluster’s research activities is ex-

pected. Applicants should demonstrate an outstanding publication rec-

ord as well as a strong commitment to collaborative research within the

Faculty of Civil Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, the Profile Area

Built and Lived Environment (BLE), and with the partner institution, TU

Dresden.

Applicants are required to submit both a research statement and a

teaching statement. The research statement should outline the candi-

date’s planned research program, explain the candidate’s scientific fit

with the advertised position, and describe the vision for the further devel-

opment of the professorship. In particular, it should present plans for es-

tablishing an independent research group, strategies for acquiring com-

petitive third-party funding, and concepts for integration into national and

international research networks, standardization bodies, and interdiscipli-

nary research collaborations. The teaching statement should describe the

candidate’s vision for the further development of teaching in the fields of

structural engineering and structural concrete at RWTH Aachen Univer-

sity and outline the candidate’s teaching philosophy and pedagogical ex-

perience.