Univ. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Krausstudied civil engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt. From 2001 to 2010 he worked at the Chair of Steel and Composite Engineering of the Ruhr University Bochum RUB, first as a research assistant and after his doctorate in 2005 as a senior engineer. In 2010, he moved to the engineering firm Schurmann - Kindmann und Partner SKP in Dortmund as Senior Engineer and Head of Structural Planning and took on teaching assignments at the Ruhr University Bochum and the Vietnamese-German University in Ho Chi Minh City. In 2015 he followed the call to the Bauhaus University Weimar to become Professor of Steel and Hybrid Construction.Univ. em. Dr.-Ing. Rolf Kindmannstudied civil engineering at the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum RUB. From 1974 to 1989 he worked as a researcher at the RUB and then for ten at Thyssen Engineering years in various positions, lastly as division manager of all engineering departments. From 1990 to 2013 he was a full professor and the head if the Institute of Steel and Composite Structures at the University of Bochum. In 1991 he founded Schurmann - Kindmann and partners, Consulting Engineers (SKP) in Dortmund. Professor Dr. Kindmann is a licensed checking engineer for steel and concrete structures and of design in railway engineering. Since finishing his work as a partner, Rolf Kindmann has continued to be closely associated SKP.