Rolf Breitenbuecher, born in 1957 in Germany, studied Civil Engineering at the Technical University Munich, finished with his Diploma in 1982. After 9 month in a design office he returned to the Technical University Munich as scientific assistant at the Institute for Building Materials. 1989 he got his PhD (Dr.-Ing.) with his doctoral thesis “Restraint Stresses and Risk of Cracking due to Hydration Heat”.

From 1992 to 2002 Rolf was head of the Central Laboratory for Building Materials in the Philipp Holzmann AG (largest construction company in Germany at that time) and responsible for concrete technology within this company worldwide.

Since 2003 he is full professor for Building Materials at the Ruhr-University in Bochum (Germany). His main research fields are Concrete for pavements, Alkali-Silica-Reactions, Degradation processes due to cyclic loads, Resistance against chemical attack and Shotcrete. Rolf is member of several standardizing committees (e.g. chairman of European concrete standard EN 206, chairman of the German Committee for pavement concrete) and also member of several technical societies. 2008 Rolf becomes member of ISCP and since 2015 he is on the Board of Directors.