Team
The team at Mountain Hazard Engineering GmbH has a wide range of experience and knowledge in the planning and design of measures against gravitational natural hazards.
Nadine Feiger
MSc ETH Env. Eng.
Nadine Feiger studied environmental engineering, specializing in river and hydraulic engineering, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. She broadened her expertise in the field of natural hazards by completing a Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Natural Hazards at the Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH). She spent several years as a project manager in the research and development department of Geobrugg AG (Romanshorn, Switzerland), working on projects worldwide. She then founded Mountain Hazard Engineering GmbH to offer her services as an independent engineer. She also works with Holinger AG (Olten, Switzerland), contributing with her expertise to the planning and execution of the debris flow mitigation projects. She is an expert in planning and engineering of protective measures against natural hazards and her core expertise lies in flexible barrier systems against flowing mass movements. Her unparalleled knowledge in this field, coupled with her core competence in non-standardized solutions for flowing mass movements, particularly debris flows, slush flows and driftwood, firmly establishes her as a leading authority in this domain.
Corinna Wendeler
Dr. Sc. ETH, Dipl.-Ing. Univ., TU München
Corinna Wendeler earned a civil engineering degree at the Technical University of Munich, specializing in steel construction/statics. She then acquired extensive knowledge in steel and solid construction at WD Engineering (Dywidag) in Munich for two years. Her main area of expertise in this position was dynamic simulations. She then moved to the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) for her doctoral thesis. As part of her dissertation, she deepened her knowledge of natural hazards for debris flows and developed a load model for flexible debris flow barrier systems. Her studies and experiments included small-scale model tests, dynamic simulations, and fieldwork. She then moved to Geobrugg AG (Romanshorn, Switzerland), first as project manager then as leader of the Technology department and eventually as Chief Technical Officer (CTO). She is presently working part-time at the cantonal hydraulic engineering department in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden (AR), where she deals with flood protection, updating hazard maps, as well as with flood and revitalization projects. She is a leading expert on gravitational natural hazards and their protection systems. She is also lecturing at the Bern University of Applied Sciences on debris flows/open hillslope debris flows in the CAS Natural Hazards.