Dr.-Ing. Matthias Zimmermann
- Head of Division Highway Design and Operation
- Office Hours:
please make an appointment
- Phone: +49 721 608-42244
- matthias zimmermann ∂does-not-exist.kit edu
Otto-Ammann-Platz 1
76131 Karlsruhe
Responsibilities at the institute
- lectureship for lectures of the institute
- design of rural roads
- EDP for road construction matters
- safety management of roads
- seminars concerning road designs and construction matters
- contact person concerning lectures, degree programmes etc. for students of civil engineering and other degree programmes at KIT
- EU-Project Fully Optimised Road Maintenance (FORMAT)
- expert's report regarding surface characteristics of traffic circulation areas (QAG, KARGUS, Griffigkeit)
- organising colloquiums of the road maintenance service of the FGSV in cooperation with the ISE
Curriculum Vitae
| 1970 | born in Darmstadt, Germany |
| Education | |
| 1989 | Secondary-school final exams at the Justus-Liebig-School in Darmstadt |
| 1989 - 1990 | Military Service |
| 1990 - 1995 | Studies of civil engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt, final examination diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) |
| Professional Experience | |
| 1996 - 1998 | Traffic engineer at Durth Roos Consulting GmbH in Darmstadt |
| 1998 - 2001 | Research associate at the Institute of Highway and Railroad Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) |
| 2001 | Graduation (Dr.-Ing.) |
| since 2001 | Department head of the Department of Highway Design and Operations at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) |
| Committee of the academic administration at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) | |
| since 2002 | Member of the commission of the national graduate support law (§9, paragraph 5, LGFVO) and programme for postgraduates of the Federal Republic of Germany (DFG) of the Department of Civil Engineering, Geo and Environmental Sciences |
| since 2002 | Member of the commission for the Diplom degree course “Technical Instructor” of the Department of Civil Engineering, Geo and Environmental Sciences |
| since 2007 | Member of the commission for “Teaching Burdens” (capacity commission) of the Department of Civil Engineering, Geo and Environmental Sciences |
| Awards and Honours | |
| 2003 | Award of the Franz and Alexander Kirchhoff foundation |
| 2014 | Max-Erich-Feuchtinger / Bruno-Wehner Denkmünze, award of the Max-Erich-Feuchtinger / Bruno-Wehner-foundation |
| Voluntary Activities | |
| since 1999 | Member of the German Road and Transportation Research Association (FGSV) |
| since 1999 | Member of the working group “Renovation of Rural Roads” (AK 2.2.2) of the German Road and Transportation Research Association (FGSV) |
| 2003 -2008 | Member of the working group “Visualisation of Rural Roads” (AK 2.2.3) of the German Road and Transportation Research Association (FGSV) |
| since 2003 | Member of the working group “Road Operations” (AA 4.7) of the German Road and Transportation Research Association (FGSV) |
| since 2003 | Member of the working group “Road Safety Management” (AA 3.9) of the German Road and Transportation Research Association (FGSV) |
| since 2003 | Organiser of the colloquium “Operations of Roads” of the German Road and Transportation Research Association (FGSV) as representative of the co-organiser ISE (Institute of Highway and Railroad Engineering at the KIT) |
| 2006 - 2013 | Member of the working group “Composition of New Roads” (AK 2.2.1) of the German Road and Transportation Research Association (FGSV) |
| since 2006 | Member of the working group “Rural Roads” (AA 2.2) of the German Road and Transportation Research Association (FGSV) |
| since 2007 | Member of the working group “Characteristics of Road Surfaces“ (AA 4.3) of the German Road and Transportation Research Association (FGSV) |
| since 2012 | Member of the working group “Human Factors” (AK 3.9.5) of the German Road and Transportation Research Association (FGSV) |
| since 2012 | Visitor of the working group “Ensuring Safety at Working Places” (AK 3.5.4) of the German Road and Transportation Research Association (FGSV) |
| since 2012 | Member of the working group “Road Construction Sites” of the commission for working places (ASTA) of the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAUA) |
| since 2013 | Member of the working group “Guidelines for Road Surface Marking (RMS)” (AK 3.6.3) of the German Road and Transportation Research Association (FGSV) |
| Stays Abroad | |
| Oct. 2003 | Durban, South Africa: Member of the German Government Delegation at the 22. World Road Congress |
| Nov. 2003 | Salzburg, Austria: Member of the German delegation at the DACH-congress |
| Oct. 2004 | Florence, Italy: Second International Congress of the SIV "New Technologies and Modeling Tools for Roads - Applications to Design and Management" |
| Jan. 2005 | Shanghai, China: "Innovation Forum for International Doctoral Students in Transportation Engineering" at the Tongji-Universität |
| June 2005 | Chicago, USA: "3rd International Symbiosium on Highway Geometric Design" |