Research Interests
Discontinuous Galerkin methods, Spectral element methods, Summation-by-parts operators, skew-symmetric formulations, discrete entropy stability, multi-scale problems, large eddy simulation, compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes simulations, ideal and resistive MHD equations, Shallow Water equations, high performance computing, massively parallel simulations, post processing and visualisation of big piecewise polynomial data, high order mesh generation.
Studies
| 1998 - 1999 | University of Innsbruck, Austria Studies in Astrophysics |
| 1999 - Dec. 2004 | University of Stuttgart, Germany Studies in Aerospace Engineering degree: Dipl.-Ing. with grade "A" |
| 2002 - Feb. 2005 | University of Stuttgart, Germany Studies in Mathematics degree: Dipl.-Math. with grade "A" |
| March - June 2005 | Graz University of Technology, Austria Research Associate, Mathematical Institute D |
| Aug. 2005 - Oct. 2008 | University of Stuttgart, Germany Dissertation, Institute for Aerodynamics and Gasdynamics Main-referee: Prof. Dr. Claus-Dieter Munz Co-referee: Prof. Dr. Jan S. Hesthaven degree: "summa cum laude" |
Academic Positions
| 2008 - 2009 | University of Stuttgart, Germany Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Aerodynamics and Gasdynamics |
| 2009 - 2013 | University of Stuttgart, Germany "Akademischer Rat a.Z." (Lecturer), Institute for Aerodynamics and Gasdynamics |
| January 2013 | First place/Offer: Assistant Professor Tenure Track (W1) in "Turbulence Simulation for Acoustic Sources", Institute for Fluiddynamics, Braunschweig. Rejected |
| August 2013 | First place/Offer: Professor (W2) in "Applied Mathematics", Mathematical Institute, Cologne |
| December 2013 | University of Cologne, Germany Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics/Scientific Computing |
| April 2014 | First place/Offer: Professor (W2) in "Numerical Analysis/ Scientific Computing", Institute for Mathematics, TUHH, Hamburg. Rejected |
| Oktober 2017 | First place/Offer: Professor (W3) in "Scientific Computing (Wissenschaftliches Rechnen)", Department of Mathematics, University Hamburg, Hamburg. Rejected |
| Oktober 2018 | University of Cologne, Germany Full Professor (W3) in Applied Mathematics/Scientific Computing |