Robert Galler is a Professor at the Montanuniversity Leoben in Austria and head of the large scale underground research-, development-, training- and education center ZaB – Zentrum am Berg. He worked as a consulting engineer in several international large scale projects and became project leader for the tender design of several tunnel projects along the northern access route to the Brenner Base Tunnel. He also was the project manager of an international JV for the Brenner Base Tunnel with a length of about 57km including all fields of tunnel design from tunnel safety, aerodynamics, electrical design to civil and environmental design. Robert Galler is the chairman of the ITACET Steering Committee and representative of ITA Austria, as well as, a member of the board of the Austrian Society for Geomechanics.