New Head of the Institute for Hydraulic Fluid Machinery at Graz University of Technology

11.12.2020
Professor Helmut Jaberg transferred the leadership of the Institute of Hydraulic Fluid Machinery (Graz University of Technology) to his successor Peter Meusburger on December 1st.
New Head of the Institute for Hydraulic Fluid Machinery at Graz University of Technology

Peter Meusburger. (Image source: Graz University of Technology)

The Graz University of Technology is pleased to announce the appointment of Dipl.-Ing. Dr.-techn. Peter Meusburger as new Professor and Head of the Institute for Hydraulic Fluid Machinery.

Peter Meusburger studied at the Graz University of Technology and worked for several years as an assistant at the Institute of Hydraulic Fluid Machinery HFM. After completing his doctoral thesis, he switched to the business world. From 2008 he worked for the engineering service of Vorarlberger Illwerke AG and took over the management of the mechanical engineering department.

In 2017 he moved to E-Werke Frastanz (Austria) as Technical Director. Since 2013 Peter Meusburger has been a member of ASI-AG 192.05 "Pipelines for hydroelectric power plants and pipelines for hydroelectric power plants and snow-making systems".

From 2017 to 2020 he was lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg in the master course "Energy Technology and Energy Economics".

Since years he is lecturer and member of the board of the University Programme in Hydropower (MEng) at the Graz University of Technology. The re-appointment of the Chair strengthens the field of expertise "Sustainable Systems" at the TU Graz.

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