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 |