EDUCATION

• Vienna University of Technology Vienna, Austria | Ph.D., Civil Engineering
• New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, USA | Research stay (7M)
• Vienna University of Technology Vienna, Austria | Diplom‐Ingenieur, Civil Engineering (equivalent to MSc.)
• Università di Bologna Bologna, Italy | Study visit, one semester
• Vienna University of Technology Vienna, Austria | Bachelor of Science, BSc., Civil Engineering and Management of Infrastructure

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Beyond Bending OG. Founder, CEO, 2024 |Feasibility study, freeform ceiling panels (Institute of Interdisciplinary Construction Process Management).
• FH Salzburg. External Lecturer, 2024 | Teaching the course “Parametric Structural‐Design” .
• Vienna University of Technology. Research Assistant, 2018‐2023 | Elastic structures and deployment mechanisms (Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, research group Applied Geometry).
• Vienna University of Technology. Project Assistant, 2014 & 2015 | Feasibility study, freeform ceiling panels (IBPM) | Mechanical testing of jet grouting samples (IG).

ACADEMIC & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• Vienna University of Technology. Ph.D. Degree, 2018‐2023 | Dissertation: Pillwein, S. (2022). Form finding of deployable elastic gridshells based on nets of geodesic curves [Dissertation, Technische Universität Wien].