A PDF version of my CV can be downloaded here.
Professorial appointments
since 2025: Associate Professor (UHD-2); Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
2019-2025: Assistant Professor (2019-2022 tenure track, UD-2; 2022-2025 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
2025: King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia; New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
2024: New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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
Organization of minisymposia and workshops
2029: Co-organization (with Alexandra Blessing, Christian Kuehn, and Qianxiao Li) of the Workshop Stochastic Dynamics of the thematic program Nonlinear Dynamical Systems: Linking Applications to Foundations at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences (IMS) at the National University of Singapore (NUS)
2026: Co-organization (with Clément Cancès, Christina Lienstromberg, Koondanibha Mitra, and Stefanie Sonner) of the Lorentz Center Workshop Nonlinear diffusion models: analytical & numerical challenges
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
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
Organizational work within Delft University of Technology
since 2025: Coordinator of bachelor projects within the section Mathematical Physics
since 2025: Mentor in the EEMCS Graduate School
since 2022: Member of the Diversity Committee of the Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics
since 2019: Co-organization (with Yves van Gennip and Anna Geyer) of the Seminar in PDE and Applications of the Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics
Previous organizational work
2017-2018: Co-organization of the Applied Analysis Seminar; Institute for Applied Mathematics, Heidelberg University
2013-2014: PhDnet representative; Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MIS), Leipzig
Referee for the following journals and databases (23 in total)
Memberships
Member of the J.M. Burgers Center for Fluid Mechanics (since 2026)
Member of the GAMM Activity Group "Analysis of Partial Differential Equations (and Calculus of Variations)" (since 2022, resp. 2024)
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and SIAM Activity Group on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations (SIAG APDE) (since 2015)
Deutsche Mathematikervereinigung (DMV) and European Mathematical Society (EMS) (2017-2023)
German Physical Society (DPG) (2004-2021)