curriculum vitae
education:
graduate student: 1978 - 1983, Courant Institut of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
masters: 1980, Courant Institut of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
PhD: 1983, Courant Institut of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
advisor: Cathleen Morawetz (thesis: On hydrodynamic stability of the separation of the boundary layer from an airfoil)
career:
postdoc: 1983-85 Courant Institute, with James Glimm
“Assistent” to Willi Jäger: 1985 - 1994, Heidelberg University
habilitation: 1992, mathematics, Heidelberg University
professor: since 1995, Würzburg University, mathematics department
honors:
1999: distinguished scientist award of California Institute of Technology
2006, 2007: co-organize two one week workshops at IPAM (UCLA) Grand Challenge Probems in Astrophysics Reunion I & II
2007: professeur invité, École Normale Supérieure, rue d’Ulm
2007: invited speaker “Collège de France”, Paris
2016: co-organize (w. Michael Westdickenberg) 16th International Conference on Hyerbolic Problems, Theory, Applications and Applications in Aachen, Germany
2022: co-organize Oberwolfach Workshop Structure-Preserving Discretizations for Nonlinear Systems of Hyperbolic Equations
grants:
grants to hire researchers:
1997 - 2001: DFG priority research program “Physik der Sternentstehung”, ~ € 120K, jointly with Hans Zinnecker and Harold York
2005 - 2011: DFG project “A new modeling approach for turbulent astrophysical flows called FEARLESS”. ~ € 350K, jointly with Jens Niemeyer
2005 - 2016: award of a DFG graduate school GRK 1147 at Würzburg University jointly with physics: “Theoretical astrophysics and particle physics”
2013 - 2020: DFG priority research program “Software for Exascale Computing (SPPEXA)”, our project is called (SPPEXA) ~ € 750K, jointly with Volker Springel, see here
2015 Gauss Centre for Supercomputing, grant with Volker Springel and Lars Hernquist “Predicting galaxy formation in a representative volume of the Universe”: 92,000,000 hours of CPU time on the new supercomputer HORNET in Stuttgart.
2018 - 2020 INdAM Doctoral Programme fellowship in Mathematics and/or Applications Cofunded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
2018 - 2019 DAAD P.R.I.M.E. (multi-dimensional structure preserving finite volume schemes)
2018 - 2021 Centre National de Recherche, Lebanon (numerical methods for astrophysical applications)
2018 - 2019 Heidelberg Institite for Theoretical Studies Zuwendungsvertrag (Magnetohydrodynamics for stellar evolution)
2019 - 2023: DFG grant: “Development and astrophysical application of a well-balanced asymptotic preserving scheme for ideal magnetohydrodynamics with gravity” - € 400K, jointly with Fritz Röpke (astrophysics, Heidelberg University)
2020 Heidelberg Institite for Theoretical Studies Zuwendungsvertrag (Magnetohydrodynamic for stellar evolution)
2020/21 Humboldt Foundation grant for a postdoc position (kinetic modeling)
2021 SCIENTIA PhD stipend (struture preserving numerical methods)
2021 DFG grant: "High order structure preserving schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws on fixed and moving meshes with applications to geophysical and astrophysical flows"
2023/24 Humboldt Foundation grant for a postdoc position (convex integration) € 42K
2023 - 2026 DFG grant: priority program (SPP 2410 "Hyperbolic Balance Laws in Fluid Mechanics"): "A structure-preserving compact high-order method for multi-dimensional hyperbolic conservation laws" - € 225K
2023 - 2025 Humboldt Foundation grant for a postdoc position (New efficient structure-preserving numerical methods for the multi-dimensional Euler equations) ~ € 100K
grants to pay for exchange visits:
2015 - 2017 Humboldt research group jointly with Yan Xu (USTC, Hefei, China)
2014 - 2015 Bavarian California Technological Center grant with Timothy Barth (NASA Ames, California)
2014 - 2015 Bayerische-Französisches Hochschulzentrum grant with Christophe Barthon (Nantes, France)
2015 Bayerische-Französisches Hochschulzentrum grant with Stephane Olla (Paris, France)
2015 - 2016 DAAD PPP Norway-Germany grant with Nils-Henrik Risebro (Oslo, Norway)
2016 - 2017 DAAD Procope French-Germany grant with Christophe Barthon (Nantes, France)
2016 - 2017 DAAD MUIR Italien-Germany grant with Gabriella Puppo (Como, Italy)
2018 - 2019 DAAD PPP Norway-Germany grant with Nils-Henrik Risebro (Oslo, Norway) (jointly with Johanna Erdmenger)
2018 - 2019 Bayerisches Hochschulzentrum für China with Min Tang (Shanghai, China)
2019 Bayerische Forschungsallianz grant with Cory Hauck (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
2019 Indian Institute of Manegment, Indore, India travel grant (well-balanced schemes for Euler with gravity)
2019 - 2024 - Chinesisch-Deutsches Zentrum für Wissenschaftsförderung (Sino-German) with a consortium of German and Chinese professors working in conservation laws
2020 - 2021 Bayerische-Französisches Hochschulzentrum grant with Christophe Chalons (Versaille, France)
2023 Humboldt Foundation grant with Yunguang Lu (China)
member editorial board:
Frontiers in Computational Physics (chief editor) (until 2021)
Communications in Mathematical Analysis and Applications