Benedict Geihe studied Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Bonn, Germany. After graduation he joined the research group of Professor Martin Rumpf at the Institute for Numerical Simulation as a research and teaching assistant. In his PhD studies he investigated and implemented finite element based numerical simulation and shape optimization of multi-scale microstructures in elastic composite materials.

Benedict then moved to the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and worked as a researcher at the Numerical Methods department of the Institute of Propulsion Technology. He was part of the development team of the flow solver TRACE, used for academic and industrial simulation and analysis of flows in turbomachines. His research covered resonance phenomena induced by fluid structure interaction and frequency based numerical methods.

Benedict is now part of the Numerical Simulation Research Group at the University of Cologne, where he joined the Trixi.jl development team. He is currently working on project ADAPTEX, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research within the SCALEXA initiative. The objective is to deploy Trixi.jl in exascale-capable flow simulations on CPUs and GPUs for applications in earth system modeling on dynamic adaptive meshes.