Curriculum Vitae

♦Personal:

Born May 27, 1983 in Weidenau (Germany)



♦Work Experience:

since Oct 2017 Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Institut für Angewandte Mathematik (IfAM)
since Apr 2022 Managing Director of IfAM
since Mar 2022 Full Professor (W3) for Scientific Computing
since Sep 2021 Paris-Saclay University, ENS, France
LMPS - Laboratoire de Mecanique Paris-Saclay
Collaborateur / Chercheur visiteur
Oct 2017 - Feb 2022 Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Institut für Angewandte Mathematik (IfAM)
Associate Professor (W2) for Scientific Computing
Oct 2017 - Dec 2022 École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
CMAP - Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées
Adjunct Professor (vacations de Professeur)
Sep 2016 - Sep 2017 École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
CMAP - Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées
Maître de conférences (Assistant Professor) in the group of Grégoire Allaire
Mouvements - 2016 , Presentation Wick
Apr 2015 - Sep 2015 Technische Universität München, Germany
Faculty for mathematics
Visiting Professor (6-months substitute of a full professor W3) at chair M17 Optimal Control (Prof. Boris Vexler)
Oct 2014 - Aug 2016 Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Johann Radon Institute (RICAM)
Research Scientist at the Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics - RICAM (Prof. Ulrich Langer)
Oct 2012 - Sep 2014 The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Oden Institute (formely ICES)
Oct 2013 - Sep 2014 Humboldt Feodor Lynen Fellow at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences - ICES (Prof. Mary F. Wheeler)
Oct 2012 - Sep 2013 Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (Prof. Mary F. Wheeler)
Nov 2008 - Sep 2012 Heidelberg University, Germany
Jan 2012 - Sep 2012 Wissenschaftlichter Mitarbeiter (Postdoc) and lecturer in the numerical analysis group (AG Numerik, Heidelberg) of Prof. Rolf Rannacher
Nov 2008 - Dec 2011 Research assistent for teaching, seminars and administration in the numerical analysis group (AG Numerik, Heidelberg) of Prof. Rolf Rannacher
Oct 2006 - Mar 2007 ThyssenKrupp Steel in Duisburg, Germany
Internship
Oct 2005 - Oct 2008 University of Siegen, Germany
Teaching and research assistent at the chair scientific computing (Prof. Franz-Theo Suttmeier)
Jul 2002 - Mar 2003 Westerburg, Germany
Basic military service



♦Education and Dissertation (Ph.D.):


2011 Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat), Mathematics, Heidelberg University, Germany
(Advisor Prof. Rolf Rannacher)
2008 Master of Science, Mathematics, University of Siegen, Germany
(Advisor Prof. Franz-Theo Suttmeier)
2008 Diploma (Certificate), Basic management competences, University of Siegen, Germany
2006 Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, University of Siegen, Germany
(Advisor Prof. Franz-Jürgen Delvos)
2002 Abitur (final high school diploma), Städtisches Gymnasium Bad Laasphe, Germany



♦Functions:

03/2024-- EUList responsible of the faculty of mathematics and physics, Leibniz University Hannover
04/2023-- Member of faculty council (Fakultaetsrat), Faculty of mathematics and physics, Leibniz University Hannover
04/2022-- Managing director, Institut fuer Angewandte Mathematik, Leibniz University Hannover
2021-- Member Senats-AG `Gute Lehre' (good teaching), Leibniz University Hannover
2019-- Contact person in numerics for foreign Master students (faculty of mathematics and physics, Leibniz University Hannover)
04/2019--03/2023 Member of study commission (faculty of mathematics and physics, Leibniz University Hannover)
04/2018--03/2022 Deputy director of the Institute of Applied Mathematics, Leibniz University Hannover
2009 Speaker of doctoral researchers in the IGK 710, Heidelberg University
2007--2008 Mentor for study beginners, High school talks explaining and motivating studying mathematics, University of Siegen



♦Membership in professional societies:

Alumni of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation
German Society of Humboldtians
GAMM - Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics
SIAM - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics



♦Member in habilitation committees:

2022 Dr. Lucia Morotti (Leibniz University Hannover)
2021 Dr. Fadi Aldakheel (Leibniz University Hannover)



♦Supervisor/Co-supervisor in PhD projects / dissertations:

2023 Jan Philipp Thiele; Error-controlled space-time finite elements, algorithms and implementations for nonstationary problems, Dissertation, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany, pp. 109, 2023
2022 Katrin Mang; Phase-field fracture modeling, numerical solution, and simulations for compressible and incompressible solids, Dissertation, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany, pp. 199, 2022
Link TIB, Defense Feb 2022
2021 Daniel Jodlbauer; Parallel Multigrid Solvers for Nonlinear Coupled Field Problems, Dissertation, JKU Linz, Austria, pp. 199, 2021
Link NuMa Homepage, Defense Aug 2021
2021 Bernhard Endtmayer; Multi-goal oriented a posteriori error estimates for nonlinear partial differential equations, Dissertation, JKU Linz, Austria, pp. 197, 2020
Link JKU, Link NuMa Homepage, Defense Jan, 2021



♦External referee in PhD projects / dissertations:

2023 Seshadri Basava (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
2023 Olivier Lampron (Polytechnique Montreal, Canada)
2023 Martyna Soszynska (Univ. Magdeburg, Germany)
2021 R. Shakthivel (Periyar University, Salem, Tamil Nadu, India)
2020 Olivier Lampron (pre-doc exam, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada)
2020 Andrej Garanza (Univ. Siegen, Germany)
2019 Korbinian Singhammer (TU München, Germany)
2019 Rajendra Choudhary (IIT Indore, India)
2019 M. Shokrpour Roudbari (Eindhoven, the Netherlands)
2019 Jean-Lou Pfister (Onera, Medon, France)
2017 Hebna Hai (Helmut Schmidt Universität Hamburg, Germany)
2017 Anna de Villiers (Cap town, South Africa)



♦International interdisciplinarity:

  • Germany
    • Leibniz Universität Hannover: 2017--: FSI, fractures, teaching, ...
    • TU München: 2015: FSI and teaching
    • Univ. Heidelberg: 2008 - 2012: Fluid-structure interaction (FSI)
    • Univ. Siegen: 2003 - 2008: Studies of applied maths; minor: physics
  • France
  • Austria (RICAM Linz)
    • 2017-2021: supervision of two doctoral researchers (Bernhard Endtmayer, Daniel Jodlbauer)
    • Mar 2018: Invited lecturer
    • 2014 - 2016: Research Scientist: p-Laplace, adaptivity, multi-goal error estimators
  • United States (ICES/Oden Institute, Austin):
    • 2015 - 2017: JT Oden Faculty Fellowship Research Program Visitor: Phase-field fracture, porous media
    • 2012 - 2014: Postdoc: Phase-field fracture, porous media



♦Professional recognitions, honors and awards:

Jul 2024 Short Course W24-01 Modeling, Discretization, Optimization, and Simulation of Phase-Field Fracture Problems, WCCM 2024 / PANACM 2024, 16th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Pan American Congress on Computational Mechanics, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Jul 21-26, 2024
Apr 2024 LUH delegation trip to L'Aquila within EUList, Italy, Apr 8-9, 2024
Mar 2024 Multi-scale methods for reactive flow and transport in complex elastic media, Conference in memory of Professor Andro Mikelic. Dubrovnik, Croatia, March 19-22, 2024, Invited Speaker
Dec 2023 Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute, Berkeley, California. Hot Topics Workshop: Recent Progress in Deterministic and Stochastic Fluid-Structure Interaction, Featured presenter
Nov 2023 Die Nacht, die Wissen schafft, Leibniz University Hannover
Warum ist Mathematik zum Zerreissen spannend?
Jul/Aug 2023 UT Austin (USA): J. Tinsley Oden Faculty Fellowship Research Program Visitor (five weeks)
May 2023 GAMM Dresden, YAMM lunch expert; young academics meet mentors
YAMM at GAMM 2023
Mar 2023 Invited speaker at RICAM, conference 20 Years Johann Radon Institute (RICAM) and 70th birthday of Prof. Heinz W. Engl, Mar 27-29, 2023
Webpage
Nov 2022 Leibniz AnsprechBAR, Leibniz University Hannover
Warum ist Mathematik zum Zerreissen spannend?
Jun 2022 Key-note speaker on Space-time fluid-structure interaction with adjoint-based methods for error estimation and optimization, MS 45D Innovative Methods for Fluid-Structure Interaction IV, ECCOMAS Oslo, Jun 7, 2022
Webpage
Nov 2021 Digitaler November der Wissenschaft, Leibniz University Hannover
Mathematik bis zum Zerreissen spannend (in german)
Gesamtprogramm
Aug 2021 Offer W3 at University of Stuttgart, Germany (declined)
Aug 2021 Plenary speaker on Numerical modeling and scientific computing for porous media phase-field fracture problems, CIMAC-X, Aug 19-28, 2021, Peru online
Link to youtube presentation
Apr 2021 Nomination of the faculty for mathematics and physics for the Wissenschaftspreis Niedersachen 2021 - Kategorie Lehrpreis
Mar 2021 Invited seminar talk on adaptive phase-field modeling for fractured media, Ecole Normale Superieure University Paris-Saclay, France
Jan 2021 Invited speaker junior workshop, WCCM / ECCOMAS Paris online, Jan 7-8, 2021, France
Link to slides
Jul 2020 Invitation online seminar talk on fluid-structure interaction, Department of Mathematics, Sona College of Technology, Salem 636005, Tamil Nadu, India
Feb 2020 Invitation to fracture validation workshop, Louisiana, Barton Rouge, USA
Feb 2020 Lecturer in a summer school (lecture topic: modeling, discretization, optimization and simulation of multiphysics problems), together with Marc Steinbach (topic: optimization of large and dynamic systems), within the DAAD project `A new passage to India', IIT Indore, India
Sep 2019 Invited lecturer to summer schools in SFB 1313, University of Stuttgart Stuttgart
Jul 2019 Key-note speaker AANMPDE, Strobl, Austria
Jun 2019 Invited lecturer to summer school in Hasselt/Belgium
Feb 2019 GAMM Wien, Austria, YAMM lunch expert; young academics meet mentors
2018-2019 3. round German excellence initiative, selected young researcher, Leibniz University Hannover
2018 Girls-day presentation, Leibniz University Hannover
2017 Girls-day, Ecole Polytechnique
Mar 2018 Invited lecturer to course Numerical methods for variational phase-field fracture problems, JKU Linz, Austria
Apr 2017 UT Austin (USA): J. Tinsley Oden Faculty Fellowship Research Program Visitor (two weeks)
Oct 2016 Invited speaker to COMMAS summer school, University of Stuttgart
May 2016 Offer W1 at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany (declined)
Apr 2016 Lange Nacht der Forschung in Linz, Austria
Apr 2016 UT Austin (USA): J. Tinsley Oden Faculty Fellowship Research Program Visitor (three weeks)
Aug 2015 UT Austin (USA): J. Tinsley Oden Faculty Fellowship Research Program Visitor (two weeks)
Summer 2015 Offer Visiting Professor (non-tenure substitute; in german: Vertretungsprofessur) at TUM München (accepted)
Feb 2015 UT Austin (USA): J. Tinsley Oden Faculty Fellowship Research Program Visitor (four weeks)
Jan 2015 Invitation and travel award as invited minisymposium speaker at the ICCP-9 conference and research stay at National University of Singapore (NUS)
Nov 2014 Invited Lecturer at Winter School Simulation and Optimization of Extreme Fluids with Focus on Fluid-Structure Interaction, IWR at Heidelberg University
May 2014 Offer faculty tenure-track Assistant Professorship at UH Houston in Texas/USA (declined)
Feb 2014 Travel award for the International Scientific Forum Heidelberg
Nov 2013 TUM Mobility Fellowship of the Technische Universität München, Research Opportunities Week (host Professor Boris Vexler)
2013/2014 ICES Postdoc fellowship
Mar 29, 2012 Invited talk on adaptive finite elements and optimal control with application to biomedical problems, Heidelberg Chapter of SIAM, Opening Ceremony, Germany
Nov 09, 2011 Audience award (best talk) at the Annual Colloquium of the HGS MathComp (2nd rank)
Nov 09, 2011 Referee award (best talk) at the Annual Colloquium of the HGS MathComp (3rd rank)
May 12, 2011 Jan Szmelter Award (first rank) for the best talk and the best paper (category young researchers) at the CMM Conference in Warsaw
Nov 19, 2010 Best talk award at the Annual Colloquium of the HGS MathComp (third rank)
2010-2012 Travel awards by DAAD (2x) and Heidelberg's Graduate Academy (2x)






♦Languages:

  • German, English, French (each very good)



♦Sport:

  • Running, Swimming, Cyling, Soccer, Skiing







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