Biography

Career History

  • 03/2021 − present: Associate professor at the Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
  • 09/2013 − 02/2021: Assistant professor at the Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
  • 11/2012 − 08/2013: Interim W2-professorship “Numerical continuum mechanics” at the Chair III: Applied Mathematics and Numerics, Dortmund University of Technology, Germany.
  • 08/2009 − 11/2012: PostDoc researcher (akademischer Rat a.Z.) at this chair.
  • 08/2003 − 07/2009: Scientific researcher at this chair DFG projects KU 1530/1-1, /1-2, /3-1, /3-2, Project coordinator: JProf. Dr. Dmitri Kuzmin.
  • 02/2001 − 07/2003: Undergraduate research assistant at this chair.

Education

  • 08/2003 − 12/2008: PhD in Mathematics, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany, 2008.
  • 10/1999 − 07/2003: Diploma in Mathematics, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany, 2003.

Projects

Software

  • Fluid Dynamics Building Blocks : FDBB.
  • Finite Element Analysis Tool: Featflow. Main developer of Featflow2
  • Geometry + Simulation modules: G+Smo.
  • Physics-informed machine learning embedded into isogeometric analysis: IgANets.
  • Quantum Expression Template Library : LibKet.
  • Unified Expression Template Library Interface : UETLI.

Visits

  • 02/2010 Department of Mathematics, University of Houston, TX, USA
  • 10/2009 Department of Mathematics, University of Houston, TX, USA

Awards

  • Co-author of the paper entitled 'Yet another structured mesh generator for screw' that received the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Screw Machines (ICSM) 2024, Dortmund, Germany, 03-05 September 2024.
  • Co-author of the paper entitled 'On an improved PDE-based parametrization method for IsoGeometric Analysis using preconditioned Anderson acceleration' that received the Best Paper Award at the 15th International Conference on Geometric Modeling and Processing (GMP 2023), Genoa, Italy, 03-07 June 2023.
  • Co-author of the paper entitled 'Learning based hardware-centric quantum circuit generation' that received the Best Paper Award at the 22nd International Conference on Innovation for Community Services (I4CS 2022), Delft, The Netherlands, 13-15 June 2022.
  • Co-author of the paper entitled 'Elliptic Grid Generation Techniques in the Framework of Isogeometric Analysis Applications' that received the Best Paper Award (2nd Prize) at the 12th International Conference on Geometric Modeling and Processing (GMP 2018), Aachen, Germany, 09-11 April 2018.
  • Presenter of the poster entitled 'Isogeometric Analysis for Industrial Applications' that was awarded the Best Poster Award (2nd Prize) at the 2nd International Conference on Simulation Technology, Stuttgart, Germany, 26-28 March 2018.
  • Recipient of the Best Disseration Award in 2009, Faculty of Mathematics, Dortmund University of Technology, Germany.
  • Recipient of the Rudolf Chaudoire Award in 2009, Dortmund University of Technology, Germany.
  • Winner of the Bill Morton Prize awarded during the 9th ICFD Conference on Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics, University of Reading, England, March 26-29, 2007.

Memberships

Professional activities

  • Member of the editorial board of Mathematics and Computers in Simulation.
  • Technical program committee member of the 28th Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE) 2025.
  • Guest editor for the special issue Advances in Quantum Computing and Applications.
  • Guest editor for the special issue Application Opportunities of Quantum Computing.
  • Scientific committee member of the 13th International Conference on Compressors and their Systems, City University of London, 2023.
  • Program committee member of Computing Frontiers 2022.
  • Scientific committee member of the 12th International Conference on Compressors and their Systems, City University of London, 2021.
  • Program committee member of Computing Frontiers 2021.
  • Local organising committee member of the 12th European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications (ENUMATH2019).
  • Main organizer of the 3rd Conference on Isogeometric Analysis and Applications (IGAA 2018)
  • Scientific committee member of the 3rd FEMTEC Conference on Com- putational Methods in Engineering and Sciences.
  • Program committee member of the Workshop High-resolution schemes for convection-dominated flows: 30 years of FCT.
  • Reviewer for ACM Computing Frontiers, ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems, Applied Mathematics and Computation, BIT Numerical Mathematics, Communications in Computational Physics, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Computers & Fluids, Computers & Mathematics with Applications, Computing, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computation, Journal of Computational Physics, Journal of Computational Sciences, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Journal of Neural Computing and Applications, Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, Mathematical Modelling and Analysis, Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis, Mathematical Reviews, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, PeerJ Computer Science, Scientific Research and Essays, Technical Sciences