Prof. Dr. Frank Lademann has started working at the Giessen -Friedberg University of Applied Sciences. He teaches traffic engineering with a focus on railway systems and traffic planning at the Department of Building.

After studying civil engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt, graduating with a degree in engineering, Frank Lademann joined the BGS engineering firm in Frankfurt in 1991. After several years, he moved to the Technical University of Darmstadt, where he took up a position as a research assistant in the field of railway systems and technology. There, he earned his doctorate in engineering Dr.-Ing. with a dissertation on the topic of "Design of Passing Sections on Single-Track S-Bahn Lines." His analysis and the simulation programme he developed as part of his work contributed to improving operational efficiency on single-track S-Bahn lines. His dissertation was awarded the "Carl Pirath Prize" by the German Association for Transport Science (DVWG). He returned to BGS engineering firm as a team leader after leaving the university, where he was still working when he received a professorship offer from the Giessen -Friedberg University of Applied Sciences.   

Prof. Dr. Lademann has focused his academic work and professional practice on the operation and design of local and regional railways. His research interests lie primarily in the further development of the "RegioSim" simulation programme (www.regiosim.de), which he conceived as part of his doctoral dissertation, and in the optimization of operational processes for local and regional railways. He is a member of the Association of German Railway Engineers (VDEI) and the German Association for Railway Engineering (DVWG).