fischer Highlights - Dr.-Ing. Akanshu Sharma, Junior Professor, Innovative Strengthening and Fastening Methods

In this episode of “fischer highlights”, presenter Wolfgang Pott welcomes the internationally renowned civil engineer Professor Akanshu Sharma. Sharma currently teaches and researches at Purdue University in Indiana, USA, but was previously an endowed junior professor at the University of Stuttgart. In the interview, Professor Sharma explains how his passion for civil engineering and fastening technology led him from India to Germany and then to the USA. He talks about the importance of close collaboration between science and industry, the challenges of earthquake engineering, sustainable construction in the context of climate change and the growing demands of urbanization and material shortages.