Thomas Linner Email & Phone Number

Dr. Linner is Professor at OTH Regensburg. His activities centre for close to 20 years on R&D, systems engineering, and innovation management for advanced construction and building technology for future smart and resilient cities - with a special focus on assistive technology and construction robotics. Dr. Linner was a senior scientist and lecturer in building realisation and robotics at Technical University of Munich (TUM), and a Guest Associate Professor at the Department of System Design Engineering at Keio University, Japan. Dr. Linner has extensive experience with the coordination of complex multi-partner R&D and technology transfer projects situated at the intersection between research and industry. Dr. Linner has been an invited speaker at universities such as the University of Tokyo, The University of Hong Kong, and Cambridge University. He has received several awards and grants, including a Japanese Center of Excellence Grant. Currently Dr. Linner serves as the convenor of DIN/NA 023-00-07 and ISO/TC 314 WG2, and as Vice President of the International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC). In November 2019, Dr. Linner received the CEN-CENELEC Standards + Innovation Award 2019, and in January 2021 Dr. Linner was appointed by DIN to its presidial committee. Dr. Linner has extensive experience in the acquisition of large funding projects and R&D contracts/investments on national and international level. He is also a regular evaluator for projects in national and international funding schemes, serves as a reviewer for several international conferences and Journals, is active as an editor of high-profile proceedings and Journals, and holds several patents and board of director memberships.Dr. Linner has authored almost 200 publications, amongst others the Cambridge Handbooks on Construction Robotics series. For further information about his publications please visit ResearchGate.

Listed skills include Teaching, Standardisation, Project Management, Horizon 2020, and 12 others.