Christian Hühne

For more than 25 years he has been working in the fields of numerical analysis, lightweight design and fibre reinforced plastics in applied and basic research. He has been a member of the NAFEMS DACH Steering Committee since 2013.

Since 2008, he has served as Head of the Composite Design Department at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Lightweight Systems in Braunschweig, Germany. Additionally, since 2014 he has held a professorship at Technische Universität Braunschweig in the Institute of Mechanics and Adaptronics. From 2005 to 2008, he was head of the Composites Department at the Institute of Statics and Dynamics (ISD) at the Leibniz Universität Hannover.

He received his doctorate (Dr.-Ing.) summa cum laude in 2005 from the Carolo-Wilhelmina Technical University of Braunschweig, Department of Mechanical Engineering, under the supervision of Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Emil Breitbach. His dissertation was entitled 'Robust Design of Buckling-Prone Circular Cylindrical Shells.'

Between 2000 and 2005, he worked as a research assistant at the DLR Institute of Structural Mechanics in Braunschweig. In 1999, he completed his diploma thesis in steel construction on 'Investigations into the Realistic Calculation of Flange Connections in the Elastic Range,' supervised by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Schaumann at the University of Hannover. From 1994 to 1999, he studied civil engineering at the University of Hannover, specialising in structural engineering with a focus on mechanics, and graduated as a Diplom-Ingenieur (Dipl.-Ing.).