Teaching, learning, and research at a high level on the campus in the city centre and at the Schlosspark
The KIT-Department BGU takes a holistic approach to understanding, protecting, using, and sustainably shaping the environment as the basis of our lives in teaching, research, and innovations.
In this context, the geosciences and environmental sciences work closely together with the civil engineering sciences. Thus, the department makes an essential contribution to living in an attractive environment also in the future.
Please note that the dates in this calendar are not updated daily and all information is without guarantee. It is possible that dates are changed at short notice without us becoming aware of this. We therefore recommend that you check the information on the websites of the facilities concerned.
The KIT-Department of Civil Engineering, Geo and Environmental Sciences invites you to the inaugural lecture by TT-Professor Franziska Meinherz. The title of her lecture is "Conflicts on the road to car-free cities: Who is slowing whom down?".
Afterwards, TT-Professor Meinherz cordially invites you and your companions to a standing reception.
Please register online via our event calendar by January 12, 2026.
The professorship is associated with the collegial position of Director of the Institute of Highway and Railroad Engineering (ISE).
You represent the field in teaching, research, and innovation. Your personal research area covers at least one of the domains of road engineering, which include road design, pavement engineering, road maintenance and operations, as well as road traffic safety. Under your leadership, you will advance both fundamental and applied development in road engineering. Exemplary topics include climate-friendly, resource-efficient, and circular materials, construction methods and processes, the safety-optimized design of traffic facilities, and predictive infrastructure management. You will continuously develop the existing, well-equipped road construction laboratory and orient it more strongly toward scientific research. We expect you to actively take advantage of the diverse opportunities for collaboration at KIT, particularly within the KIT-Department and the KIT Mobility Systems Center. It is also expected that you actively participate in relevant professional committees.
In the field of academic education, you will represent your discipline with didactic competence through research-oriented and application-focused teaching in German- and English-language Bachelor's and Master's degree programs, particularly in Civil Engineering as well as in the Master’s program “Mobility and Infrastructure”. In addition, you will contribute your in-depth knowledge and practical experience to the qualification and promotion of young academics. You will execute university tasks with a teaching obligation of 9 hours per week per semester.
Starting date: as soon as possible
Application up to January, 30, 2026
see complete job description (German and English)
Lamia Messari-Becker was born in Morocco in 1973 and came to Germany in 1992 to study. She studied civil engineering at TU Darmstadt and completed her doctorate in 2006 on CO₂ reduction in existing residential buildings. She then headed the Sustainability and Building Physics departments at an engineering firm. From 2014 to 2024, she was Professor of Building Technology and Building Physics at the University of Siegen. Her areas of work and research include resource-efficient sustainable building, climate protection and climate adaptation in the construction industry.
She has been a member of numerous political advisory bodies, including the German Federal Government's Expert Council for Environmental Issues and the Future Council for Sustainable Development in Rhineland-Palatinate. Before moving to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, she was State Secretary of the Hessian State Government.
She is a member of the Club of Rome, the Board of Trustees of the German Museum of Technology and a member of the Supervisory Board of Forschungszentrum Jülich. In 2024, she was honored as a Pioneer 2024.
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