Civil and Mechanical Engineering  
Mechanical Systems Engineering
Mechanics for Modelling and Simulation
Structural Engineering
Applied Wood Materials
Building Science and Technology
Concrete/Construction Chemistry
Road Engineering/Sealing Components
Acoustics/Noise Control
Synergetic Structures

Personal information of Peter Richner
Company   Empa
Title  
Academic title   Dr.
Last Name   Richner
First Name   Peter
Job function   Departementsleiter
Organisational unit   Civil and Mechanical Engineering
Street   Ueberlandstr. 129
Zip / City   CH-8600 Duebendorf
Region   ZH
Country   Switzerland
E-mail   Peter.Richner@empa.ch
Phone   +41 58 765 4140

Position

 

Special Knowledge

  • Initiation of third-party funding R&D projects (EU, ASTRA)
  • Management of building materials

 

Member of National and International Committee

  • International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures (RILEM); President (www.rilem.org)
  • European Network of Building Research Institutes (ENBRI), Member of the Board (www.enbri.org)
  • Plattform Zukunft Bau, Member of the Board, Head of Swiss Construction Technology Platform (www.zukunftbau.ch)
  • American Concrete Institute (ACI)
  • Member of the Research Committee of  ASTRA (Swiss Federal Roads Authority)

Education

  • 1979 – 1984
    dipl. chem. ETH
    undergraduate studies in chemistry at ETH Zürch
  • 1985-1999
    Dr. sc. nat. ETH
    graduate studies at ETH Zürich with Prof. Dr. B. Magyar „Fundamentals, Mechanism and Application of the Adsorption Polarography of Molybdenum(VI)“

 

Professional Career

  • Indiana University 
    1989-1990
    Postdoc funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation with Prof. Dr. G. M. Hieftje, Department of Chemistry, "Tandem-Source Plasma Mass Spectrometry"

 

  • Empa

    • 1990-1995
      Head of the Group for Plasma-Source Mass Spectrometry
    • 1995-2000
      Head of the Laboratory for Corrosion and Surface Protection
    • 2000-2001
      Member of the Board of EMPA Dübendorf
    • 2002-current
      Head of the Civil and Mechanical Engineering department

Publications

  • Richner, P. und Moser, K.: Sustainable Construction Material Management: Closing the Loop, ConMat '05, Vancouver, 381, 2005
  • Brunner, S., Richner, P., Müller, U. und Guseva, O.: Accelerated weathering device for service life prediction for organic coatings, Polymer Testing, 24, 25-31 (2005)
  • Richner, P. und Hugener, M.: Closing the loop in construction waste management: the role of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research and innovation, B4E Building for a European Future, Maastricht, 497-509, 2004
  • Faller, M. und Richner, P.: Material selection of safety-relevant components in indoor swimming pools, Materials and Corrosion-Werkstoffe Und Korrosion, 54 331-338, 2003
  • Guseva, O., Brunner, S. und Richner, P.: Service life prediction for aircraft coatings, Polymer Degradation and Stability, 82 1-13, 2003
  • Leuenberger-Minger, A. U., Faller, M. und Richner, P.: Runoff of copper and zinc caused by atmospheric corrosion, Materials and Corrosion-Werkstoffe Und Korrosion, 53 (3), 157-164, 2002
  • Leuenberger-Minger, A. U., Buchmann, B., Faller, M., Richner, P. und Zobeli, M.: Dose-response functions for weathering steel, copper and zinc obtained from a four-year exposure programme in Switzerland, Corrosion Science, 44 (4), 675-687, 2002
  • Wanner, B., Richner, P. und Magyar, B.: The role of modifiers in electrothermal vaporization inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ETV-ICP-MS) for the determination of B, La and U, Spectrochimica Acta Part B-Atomic Spectroscopy, 51 (8), 817-827, 1996
  • [Evans, R. D., Richner, P. und Outridge, P. M.: Micro-Spatial Variations of Heavy-Metals in the Teeth of Walrus as Determined by Laser-Ablation Icp-Ms - the Potential for Reconstructing a History of Metal Exposure, Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 28 (1), 55-60, 1995
  • Richner, P.: Detection Limits Versus Matrix Effects - Analysis of Solutions with High Amounts of Dissolved Solids by Flow-Injection Inductively-Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry, Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 8 (6), 927-931, 1993
  • Richner, P. und Wunderli, S.: Differentiation between Organic and Inorganic Chlorine by Electrothermal Vaporization Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass-Spectrometry - Application to the Determination of Polychlorinated-Biphenyls in Waste Oils, Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 8 (1), 45-49, 1993
  • Richner, P., Borer, M. W., Brushwyler, K. R. und Hieftje, G. M.: Comparison of Different Excitation Sources and Normalization Techniques in Laser-Ablation AES Using a Photodiode-based Spectrometer, Applied Spectroscopy, 44 1290, 1990