Carsten Karcher

Carsten is a civil engineer with almost 25 years of experience in the highways sector. After graduating in 1999 he joined the Highway Construction Technology department at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in southwest Germany as a research assistant and received his PhD in 2004.

He went on to become head of the department, giving lectures and conducting national and European research projects mainly in the field of asphalt, road construction materials and road pavements.

In 2006 Dr Karcher started his own consultancy, Asphalt Pavements for Europe, alongside his work at KIT, providing trainings, consultancy, expert reports, moderations, and presentations.

In 2013 he left KIT to focus on his consultancy and his role as Director of the European Asphalt Pavement Association (EAPA), where his main activities were the development of the association, health, safety and environmental issues, political items, lobbying and organisation of events including the E&E Congress. In January 2019 he took over the post as Secretary General for EAPA.