Biography

Georg Reichard is an Assistant Professor of Building Construction and a core faculty member of the Myers-Lawson School of Construction at Virginia Tech. He has been previously employed with Graz University of Technology in Austria, where he has been teaching and researching in the Department of Structural Analysis from 1996 to 2004. From 2002 to 2003 he took a sabbatical leave to conduct a research project at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, which was supported by the Austrian Science Fund and the US Department of Energy. During his time at the Department of Structural Analysis in Graz he carried out various research projects dealing with numerical methods and simulation models. Later on, he moved his research agenda to more applied areas of simulation, in particular in the area of Building Sciences, which also brought him to Berkeley and later to Virginia Tech. In his current research, he focuses on building performance, systems integration, integrated control strategies and smart building materials - using modeling and simulation techniques to improve our buildings, its systems and processes. Georg Reichard holds a Masters Degree and a Doctoral Degree in Civil Engineering from Graz University of Technology. For his doctoral theses he received the Energy-Technology-Program Award from the Upper-Austrian Government and for his stay at Berkeley he was awarded an Erwin-Schroedinger Fellowship.