Patrick
Steffen received a diploma in civil engineering
from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Zürich
in 1991. He was a Ph.D. student of Professor
Anderheggen at the Institute of Structural
Engineering, where he wrote a doctoral thesis
in computation mechanics. In 1997 and 1998
he was a lecturer at the Civil Engineering
Department at the University of Texas at
Austin (USA).
Today he is a Member of the board of directors
of
Cubus Software AG in
Zürich (Switzerland), a company specialized
in the developement of software
solutions for civil engineers. As a lecturer
at the Department of Civil,
Environmental and Geomatics Engineering at
ETH Zürich he is still active in
research and education.