Curriculum Vitae
A PDF version of my CV can be downloaded here.
Professorial appointments
2019-present: Assistant Professor (tenure track, UD-2, since 2022 UD-1 with tenure); Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
2017-2018: Acting Professor (deputy for W3-professorship); Institute for Applied Mathematics, Heidelberg University, Germany
Postdoctoral appointments
2017-2018: DFG temporary position for principal investigator; Dynamics (M8), Center for Mathematics, Technical University of Munich, Germany
2017: Postdoctoral researcher; Applied Analysis, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MIS), Leipzig, Germany
2015-2016: Assistant Professor (non-tenure track); Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, MI, USA
2014: Fields Postdoctoral Fellow; The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada
Industrial appointment
2016-2017: Development engineer; ITK Engineering, Martinsried near Munich, Germany
Predoctoral appointments
2011 - 2014: IMPRS stipendiary; Applied Analysis, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MIS), Leipzig, Germany
2010: Researcher; “Transport Processes in Melts under External Fields“, University of Konstanz, Germany
Education
2020: University Teaching Qualification (BKO); Delft University of Technology
2014: Dr. rer. nat. in mathematics; Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Germany
2007 - 2010: Studies in mathematics; Diplom in mathematics; Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Konstanz, Germany
2004 - 2009: Studies in physics; Diplom in physics; Department of Physics, University of Konstanz, Germany
2004: Abitur; Welfen-Gymnasium, Ravensburg, Germany
Selected personal grants and awards
2023: ENW Vidi grant, Dutch Research Council, NWO (total funding amount: 799 838 €)
2016: Simons Travel Grant of the American Mathematical Society (declined because of move to Europe)
2009: VEUK prize in physics
2008: Participant of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Physics
Recent research stays
2023: New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Lorentz Center, Leiden (workshop: Analysis and numerics of nonlinear PDEs: degeneracies & free boundaries); University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
2022: New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Sapienza University Rome, Italy; ISTA, Klosterneuburg close to Vienna, Austria (GAMM Workshop "Analysis of PDEs"); Lorentz Center, Leiden (workshop: Coherent Structures: Current Developments and Future Challenges)
2021: Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (workshop: Dynamics of Waves and Patterns)
2019: Technical University of Munich; Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MIS), Leipzig; Bielefeld University
2018: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MIS), Leipzig; New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Sapienza University Rome
2017: University of Victoria; Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MIS), Leipzig; Hausdorff Center for Mathematics (HCM), Bonn; New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
2016: Technical University of Munich; Heidelberg University
2015: TU Wien; Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MIS), Leipzig; University of Victoria; Duke University; Courant Institute, New York University
Service to the community
2023: Co-organization (with Christina Lienstromberg, Joost Hulshof, Lorenzo Giacomelli, and Stefanie Sonner) of the Lorentz Center Workshop Analysis and numerics of nonlinear PDEs: degeneracies & free boundaries
2022: Co-organization (with Christian Kuehn) of the Minisymposium 35 Stochastic Pattern Dynamics of the SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures 2022
since 2022: Member of the Diversity Committee; Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
2021: Co-organization (with Hans Knüpfer) of the Minisymposium 46 Multi-phase flow and dynamics of interfaces: analysis and numerics of the SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science 2021
since 2019: Co-organization (with Yves van Gennip and Anna Geyer) of the Seminar in PDE and Applications; Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
2017-2018: Co-organization of the Applied Analysis Seminar; Institute for Applied Mathematics, Heidelberg University, Germany
2013-2014: PhDnet representative; Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MIS), Leipzig, Germany
Referee for the following journals and databases (22 in total)
Memberships