Ildiko Merta
venia docendi in civil engineering
Education
2003 - 2006 | TU Wien, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Austria
Dr. techn. (with honor), Civil engineering
Thesis: Analytical Shear Capacity Model of Reinforced Concrete Circular Cross-Section Members under Monotonic Load
Supervisor: Prof. A. Kolbitsch (TU Wien), Prof. J. Kollegger (TU Wien)1999 - 2002 | Technical University Maribor, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovenia
Magister, Civil engineering (with honor) (postgraduate level),
Thesis: Shear Strength of Reinforced Concrete Circular Cross Section Members
Supervisor: Prof. B. S. Bedenik (TU Maribor), Prof. L. Sparowitz (TU Graz)1988 - 1995 | Technical University Maribor, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovenia
Dipl.-Ing., Civil engineering (equivalent to M.Sc.)
Thesis: Calculation of Simple Supported Inclined Prestressed Concrete Slabs
Supervisor: Prof. B. S. Bedenik (TU Maribor)
Positions (scientific)
06/2021 – present | Visiting Professor
University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Department of Civil Engineering
05/2021 – present | Venia Docendi in Civil Engineering
University of Maribor, Faculty of Civil engineering, Transportation Engineering and Architecture, Slovenia
09/2018 – present | Senior scientist
TU Wien, Institute of Material Technology, Building Physics, and Building Ecology
12/2017 – 08/2018 | Visiting researcher
Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia (Prof. A. Mladenovic)
07/2017 – 09/2017 | Visiting research fellow of the OeAD
Brno University of Technology, Institute of Structural Mechanics, Czech Republic (Prof. Z. Kersner)
06/2012 – 06/2017 | Hertha Firnberg post-doc fellow of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
TU Wien, Institute for Building Construction and Technology
03/2011 – 04/2012 | Maternity leave
01/2011 – 03/2011 | Visiting research fellow of the Austrian Research Association (ÖFG)
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary (Prof. Balázs György)
04/2010 – 07/2010 | Visiting research fellow of the Austrian Research Association (ÖFG)
Technical University Maribor, Slovenia (Prof. Stojan Kravanja)
10/2008 – 06/2012 | Post-doc university assistant
TU Wien, Institute for Building Construction and Technology
11/2006 – 09/2008 | Maternity leave
03/2003 – 10/2006 | Research assistant
TU Wien, Institute for Building Construction and Technology
09/2001 – 06/2002 | Visiting research scholar Erasmus exchange program
TU Graz, Institute for Concrete Structures, Austria (Prof. L. Sparowitz)
Entrepreneurship
1993 – 2003 | Founder and manager of publishing houses in Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia and Poland
Author of Mathematics Handbook (for primary, secondary and high schools),
published in Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia and Poland. Responsible for business plan,
sales management, promotion
Awards and Fellowships
2020 | i2C Start Academy Award
for start-up CanCRETE (Brand design package in value of 5,000 €)
2019 | Energy Globe Award 2019 Vienna
1st place in the category Earth for the research project Hemp concrete of the Chamber of Commerce Austria (one of the world most prestigious sustainability awards)
2017 | NÖ Clusterland Award Finalist
for the industrial research project “Zero Debris Concrete” 2017
of the Chamber of Commerce Lower Austria ecoplus (4 out of over 90 projects)2017 | Visiting research fellowship 2017
of the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy (BMWFW), Brno Univ. of Tech., Czech Republic
2016 | Sustainability Award 2016
in the category of research for the research project: Natural Fibre Concrete; Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy (BMWFW) and Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management (BMLFUW)
2013 | 1. BAWAG PSK “Frauenpreis” 2013
award for excellent achievements in research as a female scientist
2012 - 2017 | Hertha Firnberg Excellence Program Fellow
highly competitive program for excellent female scientists of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
2011 | Visiting Post-doc Grant
of the Austrian Research Association (ÖFG) at the Budapest University, Hungary
2010 | Visiting Post-doc Grant
of the Austrian Research Association (ÖFG) at the Technical University Maribor, Slovenia
2006 | Award for Excellent Performance as a PhD Student
TU Wien
1995 | Graduate Student Excellent Performance
TU Maribor
Professional Activities
Invited Keynote Speaker
2021 | 4th International Conference on Bio-Based Building Materials (ICBBM)
Barcelona, Spain
2019 | Novel sustainable composites – potentials and challenges Contemporary Building Practice
Novi Sad, Serbia
2019 | ICSBM 2019 – The 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Building Materials
Eindhoven, Netherlands
Member of the International Scientific Committee
2020 | NTCC 2020 – 7th International Conference on Non-traditional Cement and Concrete
Brno, Czech Republic
2020 | CoMS 2020 – 2nd International Conference on Construction Materials for Sustainable Future
Bled, Slovenia
2019 | ICSBM 2019 – 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Building Materials
Eindhoven, Netherland
2019 | SMSS 2019 – RILEM Spring Convention and Sustainable Materials, Systems and Structures Conference
Rovinj, Croatia
2012 | 3rd International Conference on Engineering Optimization
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Advisory Board Member
2023 | NTCC 2023 – 7th International Conference on Non-Traditional Cement and Concrete
Brno, Czech Republic
2017 | NTCC 2017 – 6th International Conference on Non-Traditional Cement and Concrete
Brno, Czech Republic
Local Organizing Committee Member
11/2016 | 2st ECE (East-Central European Cooperation) Meeting
TU Wien, Austria
04/2016 | 1st ECE (East-Central European Cooperation) Meeting
TU Wien, Austria
2014 | 16th Symposium WISIA - Women in Science – an Interdisciplinary Association
TU Wien, Austria
2009 | 1st Symposium WISIA - Women in Science – an Interdisciplinary Association
FH Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Session Chairperson
2009 | 3rd International Conference on Experiments/Process/System Modeling/Simulation/Optimization
Session: Optimization Methodologies (with Prof. Kalvouridis T.), Athens, Greece
2009 | 3rd International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization
Session: Civil Engineering (with Prof. Sherif Yehia), Dubai, UAE
2004 | 4th International Conference on Concrete under Severe Conditions, Environment and Loading
Session: Self-Compacting Concrete (with Prof. T. Ayano), Seoul, Korea
Member of Professional Societies
2019-present | RILEM TC AMC – Use of agro-based materials as cementitious materials as cementitious additions in concrete and cement-based materials
2018-present | fib-Federation internationale du beton (Hungarian group)
2009-present | Wisia, Women in Science – an Interdisciplinary Association
2004-present | IA-FraMCoS, International Association of Fracture Mechanics for Concrete and Concrete Structures
Journal Reviewer (selection)
2022-present | Building Materials and Structures - Journal for Research of Materials and Structures
2019-present | Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering
2018-present | Cement and Concrete Research
2018-present | Engineering Structures
2017-present | Key Engineering Materials, Trans Tech Publications
2017-present | Ain Shams Engineering Journal, Elsevier
2016-present | Construction & Building Materials
2016-present | Fracture and Structural Integrity (peer-review), Gruppo Italiano Frattura
2016-present | Materials and structures (SCI listed), Springer
2015-present | Applied Sciences – Open Access Journal
2013-present | Material and Structures (SCI listed), Elsevier
2013-present | Advances in Materials Science and Engineering (SCI listed), Hindawi
2013-present | Int. Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials (SCI listed), Springer
2012-present | Engineering Structures (SCI listed), Elsevier
2012-present | ACI Structural Journal (SCI listed), American Concrete Institute
Scientific Foundation Reviewer
2015 | Project Expert Evaluator for FP7 of the EU Commission
Topic: Advanced fibre based composites
2014 | Proposal evaluator and panel leader for Horizon 2020 of the EU Commission
Call: A resource to recycle, reuse and recover raw materials
2014, 2018 | Czech Science Foundation – GAČR
stand-alone project
Thesis Reviewer
2019 | J. D. Ríos Jimé, Reviewer: H. Cifuentes Bulte, I. Merta
„Microstructural analysis of heated ultra-high-performance fibre-reinforced-concrete under cyclic loading„; Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Universidad de Sevilla
2019 | A. Singh Rajput, Reviewer: U. Kumar Sharma, I. Merta
„Seismic Evaluation and Upgradation of Corroded Confined Reinforced Concrete Columns„; Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Dpt. of Civil Engineering
Faculty Service
2019 | Member of the Habilitation Commission (M. Hoffmann)
2018-present | Member of the ESEE Education Working Group of the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) KIC Raw Materials
12 members from 7 countries, involved in development of the educational strategy plan program for the Central- and East European region, Outcome: ESEE Education Concept Note – a report on how to increase innovation capacity of ESEE region through education activity in the raw material sector
Social Activities
2016 | Professional orientation for schools: What concrete research means?
research day at the TU Wien laboratory with children, project leader: WISIA – Women in Science, supported by the Genderfair project (TU Wien)
2014, 2015 | Role model for women and girls in technical professions
Women in technology info days (FIT-Frauen in der Technik) – TU Wien