Appointment of Prof. Altay as Head of the Chair of Structural Analysis

On August 5, 2024, Prof. Okyay Altay assumed the position of Head of the Chair of Structural Analysis at the University of Siegen, succeeding Prof. Chuanzeng Zhang. Previously, Prof. Altay served as a Senior Lecturer at the Chair of Structural Analysis and Structural Dynamics and as Managing Director of the Center for Wind and Earthquake Engineering at RWTH Aachen University. He completed his habilitation in 2021 at RWTH Aachen with research on adaptive vibration control, material modeling, and real-time simulations, and received his PhD with distinction in 2013 for his work on tuned liquid column dampers. Before his academic career, he worked at Bernard Ingenieure in Vienna as a project manager and later as Deputy Managing Director of the subsidiary RED Bernard, focusing on bridge monitoring and vibration reduction. He studied civil engineering at RWTH Aachen University, specializing in structural engineering, following his school education at TED Ankara College in Turkey. His research focuses on the development of data-driven methods for the modeling and parameter identification of structural systems.