Appointment to the Braunschweig Scientific Society
The Braunschweig Scientific Society (Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, BWG) is a learned society which is analogous to the Academies of Sciences and Humanities in terms of structure and objectives and has the right of self-supplementation. Its main task is to promote the interaction of natural sciences, technical sciences and humanities.
About the scientist
Following his studies, doctorate and post-doctorate at the Technical Universities in Wroclaw and Braunschweig, as well as a research stay at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Hartmut Pasternak held the professorship for steel construction at the Technical University of Cottbus, later BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, from 1993. He was spokesman of the Institute of Civil Engineering at BTU from 2016 to 2019. Prof. Pasternak's authoritative research topics include the stability of structural steel components such as beams, plates, and shells, investigations of bonded joints in steel construction, and the study of weld residual stresses. His executed structures have also been the occasion for research projects, for example the project "Load-bearing capacity of novel steel shell structures under realistic consideration of welding distortion", which is based on the Porsche Pavilion in the Autostadt Wolfsburg. Prof. Pasternak is co-author of five books and of more than 260 journal and conference papers and, among other things, editor of the renowned journal Bauingenieur.
