Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dirk Lowke

Professional career since graduation

Since 2021 | Member of the Strategy Board of the Department of Building and Environment of TU Braunschweig

Since 2020 | Member of the Executive Board DFG Special Research Field TRR 277 additive Manufacturing in Civil Engineering.

Since 2019 | Participator of Lowke Schießl Ingenieure GmbH.

Since 2017 | University-Professor of Building Materials, Concrete Construction and Fire Safety (iBMB), TU Braunschweig. Member of the Board of the Materials Testing Istitute (MPA) Braunschweig“

2016 | Visiting Research Scholar at the University of California Berkeley.

2006 – 2017 | Head of the concrete technology working group at the Center for Building Materials and Material Testing (cbm) at the Technical University of Munich

2001 – 2005 | Scientific Assistant at the Center for Building Materials and Materials Testing (cbm) of TU München.

2000 – 2001 | Hochtief Building Dresden.

Others

2024 | Des. Chair, 4^th RILEM Int. Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication, Braunschweig / München.

2022 | Election as a full member of the Braunschweig Scientific Society.

2016 – 2021 | Co-chair RILEM Technical Committee “Digital fabrication with cement-based materials”.

since 2021 | Co-chair RILEM Technical Committee “Performance requirements and testing of fresh printable cement-based materials”.

since 2020 | Member of the DBV working group "Digital Manufacturing in Concrete Construction".

since 2020 | Member of the DAfStb working group "Digital concrete construction through additive processes".

since 2018 | Jury member for the Rüsch Research Prize of the DBV.

since 2020 | Jury member Klaus Dyckerhoff Prize.

2022 | Scientific Committee Co-Chair, 3rd RILEM Int. Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication, Loughborough.

2020 | Keynote and member of the Scientific Committee, 2nd RILEM Int. Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication, Eindhoven.

2018 | Keynote and member of the Scientific Committee, 1st RILEM Int. Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication, Zurich.

2015 | AWARD-WINNING PROJECT OF MATERIALS RESEARCH of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, „Erforschung des Nanowerkstoffs UHPC für die Anwendung im Spezialtiefbau unter Berücksichtigung ökonomischer und ökologischer Aspekte“ (Research of the nanomaterial UHPC for application in special foundation engineering under consideration of economic and ecological aspects), in cooperation with T. Stengel, S. Illguth (TU Munich) as well as K. Beckhaus and H. Ibuk (Bauer Spezialtiefbau)

2014 | GEORG BURG PRIZE for the outstanding dissertation “Sedimentationsverhalten und Robustheit Selbstverdichtender Betone, Optimierung auf Basis der Modellierung der interpartikulären Wechselwirkungen in zementbasierten Suspensionen“ (Sedimentation behavior and robustness of self-compacting concretes, optimization based on the modeling of interparticle interactions in cementitious suspensions)

2013 | Member of the Scientific Committee, 1st RILEM Int. Conference on Rheology and Processing of Construction Materials, Paris.

2012 | BEST PAPER AWARD Lowke, D. et al.: Control of Rheology, Strength and Fiber Bond of UHPC with Additions. In: Ultra-High Performance Concrete and Nanotechnology in Construction.

| Reviewers: Cement and Concrete Research, Construction and Building Materials, Cement and Concrete Composites, Materials and Structures.

Publications

a)  https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/ibmb/fachgebiete/fachgebiet-baustoffe/prof-dr-ing-dirk-lowke

b) Patents, granted:

1.      Patent, Verfahren zum Vermindern von Dunkelverfärbungen an Sichtbetonoberflächen, zu Beton aushärtende Fertigmischung sowie Zement zur Herstellung von Beton (method for reducing dark discolouration on exposed concrete surfaces, ready-mix concrete and cement for the production of concrete)
(DE 10 2010 047 923 B4)

2.      Patent, Verfahren zum Herstellen eines Betonbauteils und Betonteil-Herstellvorrichtung (Method of manufacturing a concrete element and concrete element manufacturing device)
(DE 10 2019 105 596 B3).