Projects

List of ongoing doctoral research projects sorted by department:

Department of Landscape, Water and Infrastructure

Advanced constitutive modeling of thermosetting adhesives

Project assigned to: Luka Mitrovic
Supervisor: Matthias Neuner

Automated production process for recyclable wall-systems solely made from renewable Biomaterials

Project assigned to: Bernhard Reinholz
Supervisor: Benjamin Kromoser

Automated production process for structure-optimised concrete elements 

Project assigned to: Peter Gappmaier 
Supervisor: Benjamin Kromoser

Automated production process for structure-optimised concrete elements 

Project assigned to: Iyad Ahmed 
Supervisor: Benjamin Kromoser

Automation of Prefabricated Timber-Frame Elements using Robotics

Project assigned to: Maria Georgiades
Supervisor: Benjamin Kromoser

Biogenic Carbon accounting in Life Cycle Assessment in context of mid-life harvested wood products and their climate change mitigation potential

Project assigned to: Slobodan Stojic
Supervisor: Stefan Petrus Salhofer

Compounding Post-Consumer Textile Waste with Renewable Binders into Recyclable Composite Boards

Project assigned to: Martina Berlinger
Supervisor: Benjamin Kromoser

Evaluation of Ecosystem Services of Green Infrastructures regarding Climate Resilience in Urban Areas

Project assigned to: Martha Kogler
Supervisor: Rosemarie Stangl

Material modeling and structural design of a strand-based material for the use in mass timber

Project assigned to: Ahmadreza Ghazanfari
Supervisor: Benjamin Kromoser

On the Automation and Digitisation of Subtractive Machining with Industrial Robots in Timber Construction. Parameter Studies, Increase in Efficiency and System Integration

Project assigned to: Marc Pantscharowitsch
Supervisor: Benjamin Kromoser

On the load-bearing behavior of adhesive connected timber-concrete-composite ceiling systems 

Project assigned to: Florian Brosch 
Supervisor: Benjamin Kromoser

Prefabricated Façade Elements for Sustainable Building Renovation: Supporting Decision-Making Processes in Early Design Stages through an Optimized Digital Process Chain

Project assigned to: Natasa Kral
Supervisor: Benjamin Kromoser

Structural Optimization of Wood-Based Building Components for Resource Efficiency

Project assigned to: Johannes Belz 
Supervisor: Benjamin Kromoser

Vertical Greening and Resilient Wooden Facade Trends: Assessing Beneficial and Inhibiting Interactions

Project assigned to: Anna Briefer
Supervisor: Rosemarie Stangl

XR-BEM: Real-time Interactive Building Simulation in Extended Reality Based on the Generalizable Surrogate Model

Project assigned to: Zishu Luo
Supervisor: Benjamin Kromoser

Department of Ecosystem Management, Climate and Biodiversity

Forest Inventory with Personal Laser Scanning

Project assigned to: Andreas Tockner 
Supervisor: Arne Nothdurft 

Measurement of roundwood stacks with LiDAR

Project assigned to: Lukas Moik
Supervisor: Arne Nothdurft 

Department of Natural Sciences and Sustainable Resources

All-wood: bio-inspired colour obtained from wood to colour wood

Project assigned to: Célia Lointier 
Supervisor: Johannes Konnerth 

A new resource-efficient material concept based on hardwood branches

Project assigned to: Tobias Nenning 
Supervisor: Johannes Konnerth 

Investigation of alternative wood species and optimized processes for strand-based unidirectional wood panels for mass timber materials

Project assigned to: Lukas Malzl
Supervisor: Johannes Konnerth 

Mechanical treatment and characterization of plant proteins for their utilization as wood adhesives

Project assigned to: Ritika Malik
Supervisor: Johannes Konnerth 

Optimised strand and panel adhesion for the production of new wood building products

Project assigned to: Andrej Fasalek
Supervisor: Johannes Konnerth 

Process Optimization for Low-Density Wood-Fiber Insulation Boards using Carbohydrate-Based Adhesives

Project assigned to: Ondřej Fiedler
Supervisor: Rupert Wimmer 

Puzzle cell materials: green composites in a nutshell

Project assigned to: Florian Gregor
Supervisor: Notburga Gierlinger

Renewable carbohydrate-based adhesive development for wood industry applications

Project assigned to: Marek Kalanin
Supervisor: Johannes Konnerth 

Strip-like laminations for use in structural wood products 

Project assigned to: Simon Lux
Supervisor: Johannes Konnerth 

Surface Phenomena of Wood as related to Wood Disintegration Process 

Project assigned to: Lena Maria Leiter 
Supervisor: Rupert Wimmer 

Understanding critical properties of Indonesian wood species for sustainable building materials

Project assigned to: Shofi Fauziyyah 
Supervisor: Rupert Wimmer