CV

A detailed CV is available on request.

Positions

• Professor of Data Assimilation Universität Potsdam (since September 2019)

• Visiting Professor TU Munich (May - June 2019)

• Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Mathematics, University of Bath (May 2016 - August 2019)

• Lecturer (Assistant Professor, tenured) in Mathematics, University of Bath (October 2010 - April 2016)

• GWR Research Fellow with the UK MetOffice and Lecturer, University of Bath (October 2007 - September 2010).

• Visiting Research Associate, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland (October - December 2006).

• Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Bath (February 2003 - September 2007).

• Graduate Teaching Assistant, TU Chemnitz (October 2001 - September 2004).

Education

• PhD in Numerical Analysis, November 2007, University of Bath, UK

• Diploma (Dipl.-Math.) in Mathematics, September 2004, TU Chemnitz, Germany

• MSc in Applied Mathematics, December 2003, University of Bath, UK

• Abitur, Gymnasium Schwarzenberg, Germany

Selected Scholarships and Awards

• Mathematics Staff Award for Best Supervisor (2017).

• Winner of Images of Research Competition (2012).

• Student Paper Prize at 10th Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods in Colorado, USA (April 2008).

• GWR Fellowship Postdoctoral Fellowship (2007-2010).

• EPSRC Studentship PhD scholarship (October 2004 - September 2007).

• Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung merit-based academic scholarship (July 2000 - September 2004).

Memberships

• GAMM Activity Group Applied and Numerical Linear Algebra

• GAMM

• GAMM COMinDS

• SIAM (in particular SIAG/LA)

• ILAS

• IMA (until 2018)

• GIP (Gesellschaft für Inverse Probleme) 

• EMS 

Selected Academic Services

• Chair of SIAG/LA Early Career Prize Committee 2024

• Editorial Board member of Journal of Linear and Multilinear Algebra (since 2024)

• Associate Editor of The Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra (since 2023)

• Chair of SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra (2022-2024)

• Co-Chair of GAMM Activity Group on Applied and Numerical Linear Algebra (from 2022)

• Associate Editor of SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (since 2022)

• Programmkommittee GAMM Jahrestagung (since 2022)

• Associate Editor of Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis ETNA  (since 2021)

• Chair of SIAG/LA Best Paper Prize Committee 2021

• Stellvertretende GL Mathematik (seit WS 2022)

• Deputy Speaker SFB 1294 Data Assimilation (since 2020)

• Vorsitz Studienkommission Mathematik (seit WS 2021)

• Vorsitz Prüfungsausschuss Mathematik (Vertretung SS 2021) 

• Member of ILAS Board of Directors (since 2021)

• Scientific Committee of Preconditioning 2021/22

• Co-Organiser of E-NLA 

• Committee for Householder Prize 2020 and 2022

• Vice Chair of SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra (2019-2021)

• Scientific Committee of SIAM Applied Linear Algebra 2018, Hong Kong

• Scientific Committee of CliMathNet Conference 2017 and 2018

• Associate Editor of SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (since 2016)

• Program Director of SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra (2016-2018)

• Faculty Advisor of University of Bath Student Chapter of SIAM (since 2012)

• Secretary & Treasurer of SIAM UK & Republic of Ireland Section (2012-2014)

• Refereeing work: I have refereed for more than 20 Journals in Numerical Analysis/Applied Mathematics. For more info see Publons