Prof. em. Dr. Mario Fontana

In 1992 Mario Fontana became Full Professor of Structural Engineering at the ETH. He is interested in steel, composite and timber construction.

Mario Fontana received his diploma in civil engineering from the ETH Zurich in 1979. He was a researcher at the Institute for Structural Steel Design and Applied Mechanics from 1980 to 1984 and received a Ph.D. in technical science from the ETH in 1984. From 1984 to 1992 he was a project engineer with Geilinger Steel and Engineering Company in Winterthur, Switzerland. He was responsible for the design of steel and composite structures and head of the Fire Engineering Department at Geilinger.

He is a member of the Swiss Society of Civil Engineers and vice president of the Federal Commission and Building Products, member of the Swiss Code Committee for Composite Structures, a member of the Code Committee for Steel Structures, a former member of the Eurocode Drafting Team on Structural Fire Design of Steel and Timber Structures (Eurocode 3 and 5) and national technical contact for CEN TC 250/SC4 (Eurocode 4). He is vice president of the International Association for Bridges and Structural Engineering and he was vice president of the International Association for Fire Safety Science.