Curriculum vitae

1957	Born in Eltville / Rhine, Germany

Education
1976	Secondary-school final exams at the humanistic Dilthey-School in Wiesbaden
1976 - 1977	Military Service
1977 - 1979	Studies of drama sciences, german and italian philology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
1979 - 1985	Studies of civil engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt, final examination diploma (Dipl.-Ing.)

Professional Experience
1985 - 1988	Research associate at the section road design and maintenance at the Technical University of Darmstadt
1989	Graduation (Dr.-Ing.)
1989 - 1990	Product manager of the Ing. Alfred Schmidt GmbH (St. Blasien)
Since 1990	Managing partner of the Durth Roos Consulting GmbH (Darmstadt)
Since 1996	Managing director of the Institute of Highway and Railroad Engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Committee of the academic administration at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
1998 - 2022	Member of the commission for the studies of civil engineering of the Department of Civil Engineering, Geo and Environmental Sciences
1998 - 2022	Member of the commission of the national graduate support law of the Department of Civil Engineering, Geo and Environmental Sciences
1999 - 2000	Dean of the Department of Civil Engineering, Geo and Environmental Sciences
1999 - 2000	Member of the Senate
2000 - 2002	Vice-Dean and member of the board of directors of the Department of Civil Engineering, Geo and Environmental Sciences
2002 - 2022	Member of the commission for advanced study examination for civil engineers of the Department of Civil Engineering, Geo and Environmental Sciences
2004 - 2012	Member of the faculty board of the Department of Civil Engineering, Geo and Environmental Sciences
Since 2005	Speaker of pillar III "Infrastructure and Environment" of the Department of Civil Engineering, Geo and Environmental Sciences
2007 - 2010	Member of the commission postgraduate studies of the Department of Civil Engineering, Geo and Environmental Sciences
2008 - 2010	Managing chairman of the appointments committee W3-Professorship "Transportation"
2009 - 2012	Member of the appointments committee W3-Professorship "Technology and Management in Construction"
2010 - 2012	Member of the appointments committee W1-Professorship "driver-vehicle-interaction"
2014 - 2015	Member of the appointments committee W1-Professorship "risk-oriented regional development"
2014 - 2016	Member of the commission "programme evaluation of the academic education at KIT (KIT-PLUS)"
2015	Member of the KIT-Senate
Since 2015	Member of the KIT-Faculty board of the Department of Civil Engineering, Geo and Environmental Sciences
Since 2017	Memberg of the appointment committee W3-Professorship "Track-guided mobility systems - Rail traffic in urban areas"

Awards and Honours
1999	Award for teaching of the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg for the University of Karlsruhe (TH)
2002	Honouring doctor of the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy in Sofia, Bulgaria
2015	Award for teaching of the KIT-faculty of Civil Engineering, Geo and Environmental Sciences

Voluntary Activities
1987 - 2022	Member of the Association for Road and Traffic Engineers in Hessia (VSVI)
1991 - 2001	Member of the working group "Road maintenance" of the German Road and Transportation Research Association (FGSV)
Since 1996	Chairman of the board of trustees of the Otto-Ammann-Stiftung
1997 - 2006	Member of the scientific committee of the German Road and Transportation Research Association (FGSV); conductor from 2003 to 2006
1998 - 2006	Member of the commission "Road maintenance, Road operation and Winter maintenance" of the German Road and Transportation Research Association (FGSV)
1999 - 2018	Member of the commission "Quality Management" of the German Road and Transportation Research Association (FGSV); conductor from 2003 to 2010
1999 - 2006	Member of the working group "Design of new Roads" of the German Road and Transportation Research Association (FGSV)
2001 - 2018	Member of the commission "Dimensioning" of the German Road and Transportation Research Association (FGSV)
2002 - 2022	Representative of the German Road and Transportation Research Association (FGSV) at the scientific board of the German Federation of Industrial Research Associations "Otto von Guerike" e.V. (AiF)
2003 - 2022	Member of the coordinating committee for road building of the German Road and Transportation Research Association (FGSV)
2003 - 2022	Member of the coordinating committee for traffic of the German Road and Transportation Research Association (FGSV)
2003 - 2022	Member of the board of directors of the German Road and Transportation Research Association (FGSV)
Since 2003	Member of the board of trustees of the Max-Erich-Feuchtinger / Bruno-Wehner-Stiftung; chairman since 2010
2004 - 2006	Member of the structural commission of the board of directors of the German Road and Transportation Research Association (FGSV)
2006 - 2022	Member of the commission "winter maintenance" of the German Road and Transportation Research Association (FGSV)

Stays Abroad
Sept. 1994	Vilnius, Lithuania: consultancy agreement with the Lithuanian Road Administration
July 1999	Sofia, Bulgaria: co-operation contract with the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy
Oct. 1999	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Member of the German Government Delegation at the 21. World Road Congress
March 2000	Shanghai, China: lecture course at Tongji University
April 2003	Melbourne, Australia: sabbatical (april - august) at Monash University
Oct. 2003	Durban, South Africa: member of the German Government Delegation at the 22. World Road Congress
Sept. 2007	Paris, France: member of the German Government Delegation at the 23. World Road Congress
Sept. 2011	Mexico City, Mexico: member of the German Government Delegation at the 24. World Road Congress

Univ.-Prof. i.R. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Ralf Roos

Curriculum vitae

Curriculum Vitae