CV
For my detailed cv, see the pdf version.
Education
- Ph.D in Civil Engineering, University of Wuppertal, Germany, 2020
- M.S. in Physics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, 2015
- B.S. in Physics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, 2013
Work experience
- October 2020 - now: Postdoctoral Fellow
- Colorado State University
- Duties included: Maintenance of deal.II library, Teaching
- Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Bangerth
- October 2015 - July 2020: Graduate Assistant
- Jülich Research Center / University of Wuppertal
- Duties included: Teaching assistant
- Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lukas Arnold
Skills
- Programming languages
- Daily use of C++, Python
- In depth knowledge of Matlab, C, Java
- Libraries & APIs
- deal.II, MPI, p4est, Boost
- Software
- FDS, SALOME
- Tools
- LaTeX, pgfplots, tikz, git, CMake, Unix
- Languages
- German: Native speaker
- English: Fluent
- French: Basic communication skills
Publications
Talks
Adaptive methods and their application with finite elements
Talk at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
Adaptive methods for finite elements
Talk at Postdoc Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Global-Coarsening Multigrid for hp-adaptive Finite Element Computations
Conference talk at SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE23), RAI Congress Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands
hp-adaptive Finite Element Methods for Large-Scale Parallel Computations
Conference talk at SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing (PP22), Virtual, Seattle, Washington, USA
Parallel hp-FEM: hp-adaptive, hybrid-GMG, MatrixFree
Talk at 9th deal.II Users and Developers Workshop, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Algorithms for massively parallel generic hp-adaptive FEM
Talk at PhD Students’ Seminar on Fire Safety Science, University of Chemistry and Technology, Virtual, Prague, Czech Republic
Algorithms for massively parallel generic hp-adaptive FEM
Talk at Postdoc Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Massively parallel hp-adaptive finite element methods
Talk at PhD Students’ Seminar on Fire Safety Science, Institute of Building Materials, Concrete Construction and Fire Safety, Brunswick Technical University, Brunswick, Germany
deal.II showcase - A general library for adaptive finite element codes
Talk at Boulder Fluid and Thermal Sciences Seminar Series, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Algorithms for massively parallel generic hp-adaptive FEM software
Talk at 7th deal.II Users and Developers Workshop, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
deal.II showcase – A general library for adaptive finite element codes
Talk at Current Research Projects, Institute for Theoretical Physics I, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Parallel hp-adaptive methods for buoyancy-driven flows
Talk at PhD Students’ Seminar on Fire Safety Science, German Federal Institute for Materials and Testing (BAM), Berlin, Germany
Fire Simulation with adaptive FEM
Talk at Applied Math Seminar, Department of mathematics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Towards buoyancy driven flows with FEM
Talk at PhD Students’ Seminar on Fire Safety Science, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
Adaptive fire simulations - Verification of the flow solver
Talk at Day of Research and Projects, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
Towards smoke & fire simulation with grid adaptive FEM
Talk at PhD Students’ Seminar on Fire Safety Science, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
To be fine or not to be fine - Adaptive mesh refinement in fire simulation
Talk at Annual Colloquium at Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany
Fire Simulation
Talk at Aachen Jülich Mathematics Workshop, Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany
Teaching
Service and leadership
- appointed deal.II principal developer since March 2021