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- 2011 Guest Lecturer, National University of Singapore
- 2008 – 2014 Mies van der Rohe Professorship, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago
- 2007 – 2008 Visiting Professor, Harvard University, Cambridge/Massachusetts
- 2007 – 2009 Visiting Professor, aac, Hamburg
- 2006 – 2010 Chairman of the University Council, HafenCity-University, Hamburg, Member of the Advisory Council for Research and Technology, TU Graz
- 2003 – current Peer Review Engineer in Chicago
- 2000 – current Founding Director of the Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design (ILEK), University of Stuttgart
- 1994 – 2000 Director of the Institute for Lightweight Structures, University of Stuttgart
- 1994 – current Professor, University of Stuttgart
- 1992 Foundation of the Werner Sobek group of companies
- 1991 – 1994 Professor, University of Hannover
- Since 1998 President, Association for the Advancement of Lightweight Structures
Qualification Indicators
- Promotion Dr. h. c., TU Graz, 2013
- Promotion Dr.-Ing. E. h., TU Dresden, 2009
- Since 2017 Spokesperson of the DFG Collaborative Research Centre SFB 1244 “Adaptive Building Skins and Structures for the Built Environment of the Future”, University of Stuttgart
- Since 2014 Member of the Executive Committee, IZKT (International Center for Cultural and Technological Studies)
- 2012 – 2017 Member of the Board of Overseers, Harvard University
- Since 2012 President, Stuttgart Institute of Sustainability Stiftung e.V. (SIS)
- Since 2011 Member of editing committee, International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development
- Since 2008 Member of the supervisory board of the Federal Foundation for Building Design
- 2007 – 2013 Member of the Executive Committee, DGNB
- Since 2004 President AED e.V.
- Since 1998 President, Association for the Advancement of Lightweight Structures