He belongs to the teaching staff and is also the head of the Turbomachinery Laboratory of the Institute of Thermal Turbomachinery and Machine Dynamics of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Economic Sciences at Graz University of Technology. Furthermore, he is part of the working group "Metrology in Turbomachinery - Laser Optical Metrology" there. Emil Göttlich received his PhD in Turbomachinery Aerodynamics in 2004 and his Dipl.-Ing. in Mechanical Engineering in 2000 from Graz University of Technology. He worked as a Research Associate and as Senior Scientist in the field of turbomachinery at TU Graz since December 2000. Dr Göttlich is active in the areas of axial flow turbine and duct aerodynamics, test rig design and unsteady flows in turbomachinery.