Bäppler

Name: 
BÄPPLER
First name: 
Karin
Biography: 

Karin graduated as a civil engineer from Technical University of Karlsruhe, Germany (today KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) and completed post graduate studies with her PhD at the Colorado School of Mines, USA. She joined Herrenknecht in 1997 and since then has specialized in geotechnology, research and development. Since 2008 Karin has managed the Geotechnical and Consulting department for the Traffic Tunnelling Division at Herrenknecht’s head office in Schwanau, Germany and is responsible as Head of Business Development.
She is an invited lecturer for postgraduate degrees at Universities in France, Germany, Italy and the USA on the topic of Tunnelling and Tunnel Boring Machines. Karin also lectures regularly for ITACET Foundation and is the vice-animateur for ITA working group 14.

Country: 
Germany
Company: 
Herrenknecht AG
Position: 
Head of Geotechnics &Consulting Traffic Tunnelling