My name is Lukas and I am a PhD student within the FOURIER research project (DC9) at the Delft University of Technology. I am affiliated with the faculty of civil engineering / geosciences, supervised by Dr.ir. M. Nogal Macho and Dr. Giorgia Giardina.
I am working on long term structural health monitoring data of bridges. The focus of my work will be the environmental and operational loads that cause influence on the measured data. Understanding this influence, it is possible to achieve a simpler detection of damage to structures.
I finished my bachelor’s degree in 2019 at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. I studied Energy Science at the faculty of physics where I specialized in statistical traffic physics – with a focus on highway traffic congestion as a discipline of the theoretical physics department. Within my thesis I analyzed the impact of lane changes within traffic congestion on the traffic congestion clearance time.
Afterwards I continued my specialization within the working group and finished my master’s degree in 2021. Within my thesis I analyzed boundary conditions of a given model for traffic congestion to understand where the limits of application of this model are.
In the time between my master study and the PhD I worked in an engineering company for mitigation of noise and vibration immissions of railway tracks and constructions sites.
This is why I started the external PhD program in the FOURIER project with a company called VCE (Vienna Consulting Engineering ZT GmbH). It combines my interest in theoretical and academical thinking with a working field close to my last working experiences.
