Staff Members
Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Wolfgang Streicher
Professor for Energy Efficient Building with Focus on Renewable Energy
Office: Technikerstraße 13, 5th floor, room 517
Phone: +43 512 507-63650
wolfgang.streicher@uibk.ac.at
Coordinator of department for energy efficient building
Research Area: Energy efficient buildings and HVAC, Renewable Energy, Energy Scenarios
Silke Habel
Office Assistant
Office: Technikerstraße 13, 5th floor, room 517a
Phone: +43 512 507-63651
silke.habel@uibk.ac.at
Office Hours for Students:
Mon 13:00-15:00
Tue-Fri 10:00-12:00
Monika Kainz
Office Assistant
Office: Technikerstraße 13, 5th floor, room 513
Phone: +43 512 507-63601
monika.kainz@uibk.ac.at
Office Hours for Students:
Mon-Fri 10:00-12:00
Assoz. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rainer Pfluger
Scientific Assistant
Office: Technikerstraße 13, 5th floor, room 515
Phone: +43 512 507-63602
rainer.pfluger@uibk.ac.at
Senior Scientist Dipl.-Ing. Alexander Thür, PhD
Scientific Assistant
Office: Technikerstraße 13, 5th floor, room 516
Phone: +43 512 507-63653
alexander.thuer@uibk.ac.at
Research Area: Systems Engineering for Heating and Cooling based on renewable energies
Ass. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Fabian Ochs
Scientific Assistant
Office: Technikerstraße 13, 5th floor, room 515
Phone: +43 512 507-63603
fabian.ochs@uibk.ac.at
Dr.-Ing. Fabian Ochs studied Energy Engineering with the focus on renewable energies at TU Berlin, Germany. After earning his PhD at ITW, University of Stuttgart, he went 2009 to the Unit for Energy Efficient Buildings of University of Innsbruck. He works in national and international research projects on the transformation to a sustainable energy system. He teaches in Innsbruck among others Thermodynamics, Thermofluiddynamics, Building Physics, Model development and Simulation of Buildings as well as Building and HVAC Simulation and has a lectureship at Free University of Bolzano and Trento (Energy Engineering).
Ass. Prof. Mag. Dr. Gabriel Rojas-Kopeinig
Scientific Assistant
Office: Technikerstraße 13, 5th floor, room 516
Phone: +43 512 507-63607
gabriel.rojas-kopeinig@uibk.ac.at
Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Michele Bianchi Janetti
Scientific Assistant
Office: Technikerstraße 13, 5th floor, room 510
Phone: +43 512 507-63604
michele.janetti@uibk.ac.at
Research Area: Heat and moisture transfer, building physics
Dr.-Ing. Georgios Dermentzis
Scientific Assistant
Office: Technikerstraße 13, 5th floor
Phone: +43 512 507-63610
georgios.dermentzis@uibk.ac.at
Research Area: Heat pump and building simulation
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Martin Hauer
Scientific Assistant
Office: Technikerstraße 13, 5th floor, room 518a
Phone: +43 512 507-63654
martin.hauer@uibk.ac.at
Research Area: Building and daylight simulation, façade systems, instrumentation and measuring technology
Dipl.-Ing. Norbert Hauer
Scientific Assistant
Office: Technikerstraße 13, 5th floor, room 519a
Phone: +43 512 507-63655
norbert.hauer@uibk.ac.at
Research Area: Laboratory, Hardware in the Loop, Measurement, Software development
Dr. techn. Mara Magni, MSc
Scientific Assistant
Office: Technikerstraße 13, 5th floor, room 510
Phone: +43 512 507-63619
mara.magni@uibk.ac.at
Research Area: Building simulation
Josef Miller, MSc
Scientific Assistant
Office: Technikerstraße 13, 5th floor, room 509a
Phone: +43 512 507-63611
josef.miller@uibk.ac.at
DI Dr. techn. Daniel Neyer, MSc
Scientific Assistant
Office: Technikerstraße 13, 5th floor, room 519
Phone: +43 512 507-63652
daniel.neyer@uibk.ac.at
Research Area: Simulation, solar heating and cooling
Manuel Ostheimer, MSc
Scientific Assistant
Office: Technikerstraße 13, 5th floor, room 519
Phone: +43 512 507-63665
manuel.ostheimer@uibk.ac.at
Research Area: Building and HVAC simulation, hardware in the loop tests
Mag. Daniel Plörer
Scientific Assistant
Office: Technikerstraße 13, 5th floor, room 518a
Phone: +43 512 507-63659
daniel.ploerer@uibk.ac.at
Johann Schroll
Laboratory Technician
Office: Technikerstraße 13, 5th floor, room 519
Phone: +43 512 507-62935
johann.schroll@uibk.ac.at
Pavel Ševela, MSc
Scientific Assistant
Office: Technikerstraße 13, 5th floor, room 509
Phone: +43 512 507-63618
pavel.sevela@uibk.ac.at
Research Area: Development of innovative building services technologies, Sustainable renovation of historic buildings
Elisa Venturi, Dott. mag.
Scientific Assistant
Office: Technikerstraße 13, 5th floor, room 510
Phone: +43 512 507-63614
elisa.venturi@uibk.ac.at
Research Area: Building simulation, performance monitoring and analysis
Vincent van Karsbergen, MSc
Scientific Assistant
Office: Technikerstraße 13, 5th floor, room 509a
Phone: +43 512 507-63533
Vincent.van-Karsbergen@uibk.ac.at
Research area: Lighting, controlling, buildingperformance, BSDF measurement, CFD simulation, material characterisation, coatings
William Monteleone, MSc
Scientific Assistant
Office: Technikerstraße 13, 5th floor, room 519a
Phone: +43 512 507-63661
william.monteleone@uibk.ac.at
Research Area: Simulation of heat pumps, CFD simulations, Compact units laboratory, measurements
Alice Tosatto, Dott. mag.
Scientific Assistant
Office: Technikerstraße 13, 5th floor, room 509 a
Phone: +43 512 507-63617
alice.tosatto@uibk.ac.at
Research Area: Large-scale seasonal thermal energy storage
Johannes Frenger, MSc
Scientific Assistant
Office: Technikerstraße 13, 5th floor, room 509
Phone: +43 512 507-63622
johannes.frenger@uibk.ac.at
Research Area: Development of innovative building services technologies
Andreas Frei
Scientific Assistant
Office: Technikerstraße 13, 5th floor, room 515
Phone: +43 512 507-63608
andreas.frei@uibk.ac.at
Research area: BIM, Software development
Michael Strobel B.Eng, M.Eng
Scientific Assistant
Office: Technikerstraße 13, 5th floor
Phone: +43 512 507-63667
michael.strobel@uibk.ac.at
Research area: Energy Efficiency & Sustainable Energy
Prof. Dr. Uli Jakob
Scientific Assistant
Office: Technikerstraße 13, 5th floor
Phone: +43 512 507-63666
uli.jakob@uibk.ac.at
Research area: Energy Efficiency & Sustainable Energy
Dr. techn. Sascha Hammes, M.Sc.
Scientific Assistant
Office: Technikerstraße 13, 5th floor, room 510
Phone: +43 512 507-63606
sascha.hammes@uibk.ac.at
Research area: Integral control technology, user-centered systems, sensor technology, data processing & analysis
Dipl.-Ing. Simon Beck
Scientific Assistant
Office: Technikerstraße 13, 5th floor, room 509a
Phone: +43 512 507-63613
simon.beck@uibk.ac.at
Research area: Ventilation and Air-Conditioning, Air-Quality Measurements
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. David Geisler-Moroder
Scientific Assistant
Office: Technikerstraße 13, 5th floor, room 516
Phone: +43 512 507-6309
david.geisler-moroder@uibk.ac.at
Emeriti and retired staff members
Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Phys. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Feist
Professor for Building Physics
Office: Technikerstraße 13, 5th floor
Phone: +43 512 507-63600
wolfgang.feist@uibk.ac.at
1973-1981 Study of physics at Tübingen University. Diploma thesis in quantum mechanics.
1981-1985 Scientist and lecturer at Kassel University, foundation of the "Post Graduate Education in Energy Technology".
1986-1996 Scientist at the "Institute for Housing and Environment" (IWU) in Darmstadt. Establishing of the energy department at the IWU. Research and development on low energy buildings in Germany. Guest researcher at the Institute of Building Construction/ Lund University, responsible for the research project "Passive House Darmstadt Kranichstein".
1992 Doctoral Thesis on thermal simulation of buildings at the department of building physics Kassel University (Prof. Hauser) in cooperation with Lund University (Prof. Adamson)
since 1996 Founder and director of the Passive House Institute in Darmstadt. Scientific head of the study group on cost efficient passive houses and of the European Thermie research project CEPHEUS.
2003-2005 Work in IEA SHC TASK 28 / ECBCS ANNEX 38 "Sustainable solar housing"
2001 National German Environmental Award
2003 International Environmental Award of the City of Gothenborg (together with Hans Eek)
since March 2008 University professor for building physics at Innsbruck University
Expert in hearings at the Hessian and Baden-Württemberg state parliaments and at the national German enquete-commissions on "Protection of the Earths Atmosphere".
Univ. Prof. Dr. Erwin Kittinger
Head of the Institute for Building Physics from 1987-2005
Prof. Erwin Kittinger studied physics at the University of Innsbruck and received his PhD in experimental physics in 1965. Between 1965 and 1967, Kittinger worked as a research associate at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA. He then worked as a university assistant at the Institute for Experimental Physics at the University of Innsbruck from 1967 to 1983. Kittinger's work focused on the field of physical acoustics: he was concerned with ultrasound measurement techniques and their application to the investigation of glassy and crystalline solids. Another focus was on theoretical and experimental work on the nonlinear electroelastic properties of piezoelectric crystals. In 1978 Kittinger was awarded the title of university lecturer in experimental physics with special emphasis on physical acoustics, and in 1983 he was appointed associate university professor at the Institute of Experimental Physics.
Erwin Kittinger was a long-time member of the Faculty Board of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and held the office of chairman of the study commission for the physics field of study from 1984 to 1987. Over the years, his research in the field of physical acoustics also directed his interest to problems of building and room acoustics. Thus, in May 1987, Kittinger was appointed full professor of building physics at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture at the University of Innsbruck. From 1995 onwards, Kittinger was Dean of this Faculty until 1999, with the implementation of the UOG 93 at the Faculty being the main focus of his activities. From 1997 to 2003 he was a member of the Senate (UOG 93). Between 1999 and 2003, Kittinger chaired the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Construction.
† em. Univ.Prof. Dr. techn. Friedrich Brandstaetter
Institute Director/Founder 1970
After studying technical physics and many years of professional activity in the electrical industry, he was instrumental in establishing the Institute for Experimental Physics at the Vienna University of Technology. In 1970 he followed a call to the then Institute of Physics (later Building Physics, now AB Energy Efficient Building) at the Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck.
As a habilitated physicist, Prof. Brandstaetter built up the Institute and, as one of the founders, also the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture with great commitment and know-how. One of the goals of his work was, among other things, as an advisor to Tyrolean Hydropower, to promote the transfer of knowledge and the close networking of science and industry. Above all, however, Prof. Brandstaetter was a versatile teaching and research personality. He additionally taught at the Medical Faculty and was also involved in the development of a blood pump as an auxiliary device for heart operations. His achievements in research and teaching were honored with the Cross of Honor for Science and Art and the Keschenitz Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.