Prof. Christian U. Grosse studied Geophysics at the University of Karlsruhe and earned his Ph.D. in 1996 in Civil Engineering at the University of Stuttgart followed by his Habilitation in 2005 at the same place. In 2005/2006 he spent a year as a visiting research scholar at the University of California in Berkeley, USA. He was University lecturer at the University of Stuttgart, head of the Department “Non-destructive testing and monitoring tech¬niques” and finally Director at the Material Testing Institute MPA. In 2010 he changed to the Technical University of Munich and became Professor (W2) of the Non-destructive Testing Lab followed in 2011by a joint appointment in civil and mechanical engineering as Chair (W3) of the Non-destructive Testing Department, Center of Building Materials.

His research interest include the application and development of non-destructive testing meth¬ods (ultrasound, acoustic emission, impact-echo, vibration analysis, Radar, IR Thermography) as well as structural health monitoring using wireless sensor networks.

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