Head of Department - Civil and Architectural Engineering, Aarhus University
Professor Mikkel K. Kragh is Head of Department, Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering at Aarhus University, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Denmark.
Mikkel is currently establishing a new engineering department as part of a major restructure at the Faculty of Technical Sciences at Aarhus University. The department covers a range of aspects in building design and structural engineering. He returned to Denmark, and to academia, after having held a range of international specialist positions spanning research and development, specialist contracting, specialist consulting, and specialty manufacturing. For years, he chaired the Society of Facade Engineering and championed the façade engineering discipline worldwide. Having spent his career working with high calibre international practitioners and academics, Mikkel has unique insight into high performance building solutions as well as the role of specialist design input in the construction industry now and in the future.
Fellow and former Chairman of the Society of Façade Engineering (SFE). Member of the Danish Academy of the Technical Sciences (ATV). Member of the Special Advisory Council, Facade Tectonics Institute. Member of the European Facade Network (EFN). CIBSE Silver Medal.