Bernhard Elsener
Professor
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Born at 23. October 1952 he studied Materials Science at the Department of Chemistry at ETH Zurich. After the diploma in 1976 he also studied pedagogic and didactic for chemistry. His Ph.D. thesis was dedicated to the passivation of stainless steels in non-aqueous media (1983). He was lecturer and senior researcher at ETH Zurich. Since 1988 he was head of the research group "durability of RC structures" at the former Institute of Materials and Corrosion. In 1998 Bernhard Elsener was elected in a public competition professor for Materials Science at the Faculty of Engineering at University of Cagliari, Italy, where he teaches environmental and civil engineering students.
Research Interest
Corrosion, durability and non-destructive testing of reinforced and pre-stressed concrete structures.
