Roman Lahodynsky

Career

• 2011 - 2012 1.) Senior Scientist: foresight of EU-security scenarios - influence of natural hazards on societal changes (migration). 2.) Participation in contracts on Nuclear Safety, questions of external hazards (earthquakes & other geo-hazards) and geological radwaste disposal, critical review of "stress-tests-bazaars". Providing information for media on the Fukushima disaster
• 2010 - 2011 Scientific collaborator at the Geological Survey of Austria,trf-division, commercial projects, department of Hydrogeology. 1.) Project on radioactivity of rocks and their influence on drinking water wells. 2.) Project on use of groundwater heat pumps in the province of Burgenland.
• 2009 - 2010 1.) Senior Geologist at Lowari-Tunnel, Pakistan: geological & geophysical investigations of slope instabilities and access road tunnels. 2.) Kyrgyzstan: Radwaste problem of Uranium tailings at Mailii Suu 3.) Institute of Safety & Risk Sciences, project co-worker on nuclear safety (study on German boiling reactors, radwaste study - deep repository)
• 2007 - 2009 Senior Geologist (for Spanish/Austrian Consulting Joint Venture) at 8.5km Lowari Tunnel construction site of National Highway Association (NHA), Chitral-Dir, Hindukush, Northern Pakistan (planning, documentation, construction of roads & bridges, retaining walls). Further projects: Trichan-Attakh irrigation channel (regional government of NWFP, Peshawar), High-speed train project Lahore-Rawalpindi (Pakistan Railways), road options Pakistan - Tadjikistan (NHA)
• 1998 - 2006 Scientific collaborator at the Institute of Risk Research, University of Vienna (as staff member & free lancer). 1.) External hazards in nuclear safety. Critical studies on earthquake hazard assessments for nuclear power plants (Bohunice, Krsko, Mochovce, Temelin, Rivne & Khmelnitzkyj,..), intermediate disposals and final repositories. Public participation procedures, Environmental Impact ass., AK-End
• 1998 - 2006 Scientific collaborator at the Institute of Risk Research, University of Vienna: 2.) participation in EU research projects: Sustainable development of rural China (17 europ. & chinese institutes); Submission of projects on seismic hazard & risk assessment in Central Europe, in continuation of Paleosis; project preparation: indigenuos knowledge transfer (Peru-China-Austria).
• 1989 - 1997 Geologist in private geological consulting bureaus in Upper Austria/Salzburg. Tunnelling, geological & geotechnical ground investigations, road construction, channel-trench investigations, investigations of old waste disposals and old industrial sites, search for suitable waste disposal sites, exploration for drinking water, compilation of geological maps
• 1978 - 1989 1. Project collaborator at Austrian Geological Survey. Geological field work - mapping, documentation of stratigraphic sections. Project "Stratigraphy of rare geological events". Discovery of the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in the alpine Gosau formation (boundary clay with iridium layers). 2. Project assistant at Geophysical Institute, TU Vienna. Rock stress measurements in deep tunnels and mines, investigations of rock slides.
• 1972 - 1974 employee at Austrian Academy of Science, collaborating in the frame of the International Geodynamics Project at the Institute of Geophysics, Viennas Technical University.
• 1970 - 1978 Studies of geology, geophysics, paleontology, petrology at University of Vienna, engineering geology and geophysics at Technical University and BOKU, Vienna
• 1969 - 1970 military service in the Austrian armed forces at the pioneer's school Klosterneuburg and the NBC-defence school Vienna; radiation protection engineer (civil and military applications) at the Austrian nuclear reactor centre Seibersdorf