Professorship for Fluid Mechanics

Curriculum vitae

1981 - 1987	Studied mechanical engineering - TH Karlsruhe
1988 - 1994	Research assistant at the German Aerospace Center in Göttingen
1994	Doctorate (Dr.-Ing.) at the RWTH Aachen University
1994 - 1995	Stay abroad in Toulouse/France (CERFACS)
1996 - 2003	Head of department "Computational Fluid Mechanics", Chair of Fluid Mechanics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
2002	Habilitation at the Technical Faculty of the University of Erlangen
since 2003	Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the TU Clausthal (ITM)
Awards and memberships
1994	Borcher Plaque 1994, RWTH Aachen University
1996 - 1999	Member of the advisory board of INVENT Computing GmbH, Erlangen
2003- 2022	Member of the scientific advisory board of the "Norddeutsche Verbund für Hoch- und Höchstleistungsrechnen" (HLRN)
Since 1999	Member of the scientific advisory board of conferences and journals, e.g. Parallel CFD, Int. Conf. Comp. Heat and Mass Transfer
2004- 2022	Member of ProcessNet, expert committee Computational Fluid Dynamics
2007- 2015	Member of the VDEh, working group on fluid mechanics and flow simulation
since 2002	Member of the German University Association
2009- 2017	Member of the board of the Simulation Science Center (SWZ), TU Clausthal / University of Göttingen
2015- 2021	Vice President for Studies and Teaching at Clausthal University of Technology
since 2017	Member of the Board of the Drilling Simulator Celle (DSC) research center, Chairman of the Board since 2020

• Development of numerical methods for flow calculation, in particular kinetic methods and lattice Boltzmann methods
• Research in the field of multiphase flows and flows in porous media
• Flows with cavitation due to acoustic fields
• Flows with imposed instationarity and flow instabilities
• Optical measurement methods, in particular PIV
• Flows in tribology