Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Rutner received his his Engineering Diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) and Doctorate (Dr.-Ing.) from the the Technical University Munich in 1999 and 2003, respectively, spent two two years as Scholar at the Osaka Institute of Technology/Japan (2000-2002) and spent his postdoc asGerman Research Foundation (DFG) Scholar at University of California, Berkeley (2005-2007). Dr. Rutner Rutner finished his Habilitation at Technical University Munich in 2012. Dr.2012. Dr. Rutner worked as Consulting Engineer at Prof. Albrecht Engineering Consultants, Munich from 2003 to 204, and at the Applied Science Department, Weidlinger Associates, Inc., New York from 2007 to 2013. He was involved in the proof design of the steel roof construction of the Allianz Arena, Munich, Munich, and in the design and vulnerability assessment and blast protection of of the PATH Station and World Trade Center Transportation Hub (Oculus), New New York City. Dr. Rutner was PI and Co-PI on several Small Business Business Innovation Research (SBIR/STTR) grants awarded by the US Navy and the US US Air Force. Dr. Force. Dr. Rutner was appointed Associate Professor at Stevens Institute of of Technology, USA, in 2013. At Stevens, Dr. Rutner was involved in metal metal and composite research, particularly in damage precursor sensing and and metal joining. Together with two colleagues, Profs. Hassiotis and and Donskoy, Dr. Rutner was recipient of a major research grant from the US Department of Transportation to explore damage precursor sensing of metals. In 2017, Dr. Rutner was appointed Professor and Institute Director of the Institute for Metal and Composite Structures at Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) and started in this position on September 1, 2017. Since January 2021 Prof. Rutner serves as Dean of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at TUHH.