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1999-2004 architectural studies at the RWTH Aachen University (Diplom-Ingenieur/graduate engineer)
2001-2006 studies in building history, art history and German language at the RWTH Aachen University and the WWU Münster University (Magister)

2007-2010 PhD thesis at the ETH Zurich, 2007-2009 supported by a scholarship for gifted students of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

The thesis deals with the history of the building company Dyckerhoff & Widmann (Dywidag, formerly Lang & Co., Karlsruhe) and its importance for the establishment of concrete constructions in Germany.
Link to the project’s page: The building company Dyckerhoff & Widmann – Early concrete constructions in Germany 1865–1918.
There is also an article on the company in English language provided in the author’s archive (download as PDF). The thesis with a detailed catalogue of the company’s projects will be published in 2011.

Since December 2009 research assistant at the Institute of Historic Building Research and Conservation of the ETH Zurich.

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