Rainer Helmig - Curriculum Vitae#

• 1981 Graduation in Civil Engineering (Dipl.-Ing. FH), University of Applied Sciences, Münster
  
• 1986 Graduation in Civil Engineering (Dipl.-Ing.), University of Hannover
  
• 1988 - 1992 Research assistant, Institute of Fluid Mechanics, University of Hannover
  
• 1993.02 Doctoral degree (Dr.-Ing.), University of Hannover
  
• 1993 - 1997 Research assistant, Institute of Hydraulic Engineering, University of Stuttgart
  
• 1996 11 Habilitation degree (Dr.-Ing. habil.), University of Stuttgart
  
• 1997 - 1998 Acting Professor for Numerical Methods and Information Processing at the Institute of Computer Applications in Civil Engineering, TU Braunschweig
  
• 1998 - 2000 Full Professor for Numerical Methods and Information Processing at the Institute of Computer Applications in Civil Engineering, TU Braunschweig
  
• since 2000 Full Professor of Hydromechanics and Modelling of Hydrosystems and Director, Institute for Modelling Hydraulic and Environmental Systems, University of Stuttgart
  
• 2002.05 - 2006.12 Vice-Spokesman of the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 404 "Multifields Problems in Continuum Mechanics", University of Stuttgart
  
• 2003 - 2006 Elected member of the Senate Commission on Water Research of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
  
• 2006 - 2011 Elected Chairman of the Senate Commission on Water Research of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
  
• 2007 - 2015 German Spokesman of the International Research Training Group "Non-linearities and upscaling in porous media", Universities of Bergen, Delft, Stuttgart, Utrecht, Wageningen
  
• 2007 - 2021 Member of the Executive Board of the Cluster of Excellence "Simulation Technology" at the University of Stuttgart
  
• 2008 - 2015 Member of the joint steering committee of the GEOTECHNOLOGIEN research program of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
  
• 2009 - 2011 President of the International Society for Porous Media (InterPore)
  
• 2011 - 2012 Member of the expert committee on information and dialogue process initiated by ExxonMobil on the satefy and environmental impact of fracking in natural-gas production
  
• 2012 - 2013 Chair of committee to develop a water research network for the federal state of Baden-Württemberg
  
• Since 2018 Spokesman and PI of the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 1313 "Interface-Driven Multi-Field Processes in Porous Media", University of Stuttgart