Ingo Burgert
Professor
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Ingo Burgert has been a Professor for Wood Materials Science, at the Institute for Building Materials in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering, since 2011. He was born in Bad Harzburg, Germany, in 1968. Ingo Burgert studied wood science and technology at the University of Hamburg, Germany and obtained a PhD at the Institute for Wood Biology of the same university in 2000. He went on to work from 2000 to 2003 as a postdoc at the Institute of Physics and Materials Science of BOKU, the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, Austria. From 2003 to 2011 he was research group leader “Plant Biomechanics and Biomimetics” at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Department of Biomaterials, Potsdam, Germany
Research Interest
Nanostructural and micromechanical characterisation of wood and fibre composites and their modification in order to optimise material properties; Polymer chemistry.
