Max Teichgräber, M.Sc

Room: N3628

Phone: +49 89 289 23072

E-Mail: max.teichgraeber@tum.de

Office hours: by arrangement

Curriculum Vitae

  • since 2017 | PhD student at the Engineering Risk Analysis Group, Technische Universität München
  • 2018-2019 | Visiting Researcher at NTNU, Trondheim (2x2 months)
  • 2014-2017 | M.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Technische Universität München
  • 2011-2014 | B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Technische Universität München
  • 2007-2011 | B.Sc. in Mathematics, Ludwig Maximilian Universität München

Research

  • Assessment of existing safety standards and development of a new safety code in structural engineering
  • Investigations on the effect of erasing hidden safety to the structural safety and the resource efficiency.
  • Development of a semiprobabalistic design on system level.

Honours

  • SSF Ingenieure Prize.
  • Maurer Söhne Foundation Prize.

Teaching

  • WS19/20: Teaching assistant for the lecture "Zuverlässigkeit und Lastannahmen", TUM
  • SS19:  Lecturer for the course “Introduction to Data Analysis with MATLAB”, TUM
  • WS18/19: Teaching assistant for the lecture "Structural Reliability", TUM
  • SS18: Teaching assistant for the lecture "Risk Assessment", TUM
  • WS17/18: Teaching assistant for the lecture "Risk Analysis", TUM
  • WS17/18: Teaching assistant for the lecture "Umweltmonitoring & Risikomanagement", TUM

Supervised theses/projects

  • Study Projekt: Alexander Frank (2018) - Development of a Parametric Flood Trigger
    and Effects of Declustering on Extreme Value Statistics
  • Master's thesis (jointly with the Chair of Concrete Structures): Alexandra Lipp (2017) - Beitrag zu modifizierten Sicherheitselementen für objektspezifische Verkerslastansätze in der Brückennachrechnung
  • Master's thesis (jointly with the Chair of Timber Structures): Verea Brodesser (2017) - Ermittlung der erforderlichen Standdauer zum indirekten Nachweis der Standsicherheit von bestehenden Dachtragwerken in Holzbauweise

Publications

  • Max Teichgräber, Jochen Köhler, Daniel Straub (2019). Hidden safety in structural design codes. Submitted to: Structural Safety 
  • Max Teichgräber, Jochen Köhler, Daniel Straub (2019). When advanced models can lead to lower safety: Codified design of structures against wind loads. 13th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP13), Seoul, South Korea
  • Max Teichgräber, Marcel Nowak, Jochen Köhler, Daniel Straub (2018). A study on the effect of improved load models on structural safety. 6th International Symposium on Reliability Engineering and Risk Management (6ISRERM). Singapore.
  • Max Teichgräber, Marcel Nowak, Jochen Köhler, Daniel Straub (2018). The effect of traffic load model assumptions on the reliability of road bridges. 6th International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering. Ghent, Belgium.