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IABSE Prize 2014: Prof. Guido Morgenthal, Germany
The IABSE Prize honours an IABSE Member - early in his or her career - for outstanding
achievements in structural engineering. The Award is conferred on an individual member,
forty years of age or younger. The 2014 IABSE Prize is awarded to Prof. Guido Morgenthal,
Germany “in recognition of his significant contributions to the fields of structural dynamics
and wind engineering and his involvement in many long-span bridge projects”
Guido Morgenthal studied at the Technical University of Berlin (Dipl.-Ing), Imperial College
London (MSc) and at the University of Cambridge (MPhil and PhD) where he specialised in
Structural Dynamics and Wind Engineering of Long Span Bridges. During his studies he had
extended research stays at the University of Pavia, Italy, the Centre Scientifique et Technique
du Bâtiment, Nantes, France; ETH Zurich at the Institute of Computional Sciences, and also
made a field trip to Peru. During his studies he received several scholarships, which in his
professional life have been followed by various awards.
After his studies Guido Morgenthal gained extensive experience in practical bridge design of
cable-stayed bridges. He worked with Leonhardt, Andrä und Partner on the structural design
and the wind engineering of large cable-stayed bridges. Thereafter he joined AECOM and
worked as Principal Engineer for the construction engineering of the Stonecutters Bridge,
Hong Kong. He was also responsible for erection engineering and wind analysis of erection
stages of Sutong Bridge, China. In 2010, after having been engaged at COWI Denmark’s
Major Bridges Department, he became Chair Professor of ‘Modelling and Simulation of
Structures’ at the Institute of Structural Engineering at Bauhaus University, Germany. He
leads a research group of some 10 PhD students working on various projects in structural
engineering. Guido Morgenthal is also active as independent expert consultant in bridge
engineering.
Professor Morgenthal’s achievements include amongst others: the initiation of a new
continuing education degree certificate course on Bridge Design and Construction at Bauhaus
University; the development a software system for Computational Fluid Dynamics analysis of
structures, e.g. bridge decks, for the numerical simulation of wind-induced dynamic response,
and the development of new bridge monitoring technologies, as well as practical consulting
work on long-span bridge aerodynamics.
Some of his other activities: he is the founding member and former Chair of the bridge
engineering section of NGO ‘Engineers Without Borders Germany’ which has engaged him in
various bridge projects for Rwanda; he is expert member of the German Certification Agency
for Construction Products DIBt; Member of fib Task Group 1.2 ‘Bridges’, Honorary Editor of
ICE journal Bridge Engineering, and a former expert member of the German Ministry of
Transport’s ‘Future of Construction’ programme.
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At IABSE he has contributed to various Technical Groups, as well as the Editorial Board of
the journal Structural Engineering International (SEI) of which he is currently the Vice Chair.
Recently he was appointed as Chair of the German Group of IABSE, and held the first Young
Engineer’s Colloquium for Germany in Dresden in April 2014. Currently he is part of the
Core Group preparing the IABSE Geneva Conference 2015.
The International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) was founded in 1929
and deals with all aspects of planning, design, construction, maintenance and repair of civil
engineering structures. To fulfil its mission, IABSE organises conferences and publishes a quarterly
journal, Structural Engineering International, as well as books and reports. The Association has a
number of technical groups and presents awards in recognition of outstanding contributions in the
domain of structural engineering.
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