I have a general interest in nonlinear flow phenomena with focus on carbon-free energy generation. My research group uses high-fidelity numerical simulations with Machine Learning but also small-scale experiments combined with concepts from theoretical physics to build reduced-order models.
Academic qualifications
March 2023
TU Berlin
Positive Interim Evaluation of the Junior Professorship (equiv. to habilitation)
September 2015
INP Toulouse
Dissertation in Fluid Dynamics
Professional career
Since 2025
Associate Professor at Leibniz University Hannover (LUH)
Institute for Reactive Flows
2020 – 2025
Junior Professor at TU Berlin and the Interdisciplinary Center for Modeling and Simulation (IMoS)
Data Analysis and Modeling of Turbulent Flows (DMF)
2016 – 2019
Postdoctoral Fellow at TU Munich
Thermo – Fluid Dynamics Group
2015 – 2016
Postdoctoral Fellow at IMFT
Particles, Spray and Combustion Group
2012 – 2015
PhD student at CERFACS
CFD – Combustion Group
2004 – 2011
Diploma degree from TU Berlin
Aerospace and Aeronautical Engineering
with internships at:
Siemens in Berlin (3 months)
Airbus in Toulouse (6 months)
DLR in Braunschweig (8 months)
Lufthansa Technik in Hamburg (12 months)
Selected honors and awards
2025 – Wilhelm Jost Preis from the Combustion Institute (German section)
2024 – Keynote speaker at the SPHERIC 2024
2023 – E-lecture ”40 Under 40” available on YouTube
2023 – ERC Starting Grant (awarded 2022)
2021 – X-Student Research Group (Berlin University Alliance)
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