Regular biography
Prof. Dr. Andreas Taras is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering (CE) at ETH Zurich. His research interests are not explicitly detailed in the provided information. Prof. Taras can be contacted via email at taras@ibk.baug.ethz.ch, and further details about his work can be found on his profile page at https://baug.ethz.ch/en/department/people/professors/personen-detail.MjU1Mzk1.TGlzdC8xOTA4LDE1NjE3MjkzNDM=.html.
Scholar-generated biography
Andreas Taras is a structural engineer specializing in steel structures, fatigue, structural stability, and earthquake engineering. His research focuses on developing consistent design rules for stability and buckling of steel members, including lateral-torsional buckling, tapered columns, and I-sections. He has contributed to the evolution of Eurocode 3 and explored innovative materials like shape memory alloys for seismic protection. His work also addresses fatigue in riveted bridge components and the reliability of local buckling in high-strength steels. Taras emphasizes performance under tensile loading and seismic retrofit strategies for critical structures such as hospitals.