Thomas Keller
Full Professor
thomas.keller@epfl.ch +41 21 693 32 26 http://cclab.epfl.ch/
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Biography
I obtained a Civil Engineering Degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, ETH, in 1983. Subsequently, I worked at the architecture and engineering office of Santiago Calatrava, where, in 1987, I developed the structural concept of the (200-m span) Alamillo Bridge in Seville (first cable-stayed bridge without back cables). In 1992, I received my doctoral degree from ETH, under the supervision of Prof. Christian Menn. In 1998, I was appointed as a (part-time) Associate Professor and in 2007 as Full Professor of Structural Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, EPFL.
Today, I am the head of the Composite Construction Laboratory, CCLab at EPFL, which I founded in 2000. My research work is focused on the development of material-tailored applications of composites in structural engineering and architecture. I was a founding member of the International Institute for FRP in Construction, IIFC, and a member of the CEN/TC 250 Project Team to establish the European Technical Specification “Design of fibre-polymer composite structuresˮ, CEN/TS 19101, published in 2022.
As a practical engineer, I designed the first composite pedestrian bridge in Switzerland (Pontresina Bridge, 1997), which is also one of the first composite bridges in Europe. Furthermore, I was responsible for the structural design of the five-story Eyecatcher Building (Basel, 1998), which is still the tallest building in the world with a primary composite structure. I also contributed to the design of the free-form multifunctional composite sandwich roof of the Novartis Campus Entrance Building (Basel, 2006) and the hybrid Avançon (vehicular) Bridge with an adhesively bonded composite-balsa sandwich deck (Bex, 2012).
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Infoscience publications
Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Architecture