Professor Dr.-Ing. Rosemarie Wagner

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Rosemarie Dorothea Wagner studied civil engineering with the main topic structural design at the University of Stuttgart and worked for two years as structural engineer designing residential housing. From 1984 to 1990 she worked as academic researcher at Institute for Concrete Structures, University of Stuttgart, Professor Joerg Schlaich. DFG-research projects had been the history of suspension bridges in the early 19th century and hybrid Structures in architecture The research ended with the PhD in 1992, supervise had been Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joerg Schlaich.

From 1990 to 1995 Mrs. Wagner worked as consultant engineer and entered 1995 the Company Festo, Esslingen Germany developing and designing pneumatic structures. In 1997 she becomes Professor at the University of Applied science Munich. The field of teaching and research had been structural design in the Faculty of Architecture. Since 2010 she is Professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT-faculty Architecture, Institute Design and Building Technology and is head of the department building techniques. Mrs. Wagner is member of the IASS, International Association of Space and Shell Structures, www.iass-strucutres.org since 1998 and member of European network Tensinet, www.tensinet.com since 2005. Since 2011 she is the scientific supervisor of annual Textile Roofs Workshop, www.textile-roofs.com.