Alumni AICES Fellows

Dr. Safdar Abbas
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Dr. Fries / Prof. Schöberl
Dissertation:
High Gradient XFEM for Fracture Mechanics
New affiliation:
Senior Solutions Engineer at Schlumberger, Texas

Sebastian Achilles M.Sc.
Advisor / Co-advisor:

Dr. Bahodir Ahmedov
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Herty/ Prof. Frank
Dissertation:
Approximation Methods and Reduced Models for Optimal Radiation Treatment
New affiliation:
Associate Professor at Inha University in Tashkent

Atefeh Alipour M.Sc.
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Dr. Stephan Wulfinghoff/ Prof. Bob Svendsen

Dr. Manuel Allhoff
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Dr. Costa/ Prof. Berlage
Dissertation:
Efficient Algorithms for Motif Discovery on Genomic Signals
New affiliation:
Data Scientist at P3 Group

Nicole Aretz M.Sc.
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Veroy-Grepl

Rohit Atre M.Sc.
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Dr. Jannesari/ Prof. Wolf
Dissertation:
Combining Static and Dynamic Analysis for Parallelism Discovery
New affiliation:
Software Engineer/IT-Consultant at Itemis AG

Prof. Dr. Markus Bachmayr
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Karen Veroy-Grepl / Prof. Wolfgang Dahmen
Dissertation:
Adaptive Low-Rank Wavelet Methods and Applications to Two-Electron Schrödinger Equations
New affiliation:
Professor at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz

Dr. Eduard Bader
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Veroy-Grepl/ Prof. Herty
Dissertation:
Model Order Reduction for Parametrized Partial Differential Equations with Variational Inequalities
New affiliation:
Product Manager at Siemens Dänemark

Dr. Aravind Balan
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. May / Prof. Müller
Dissertation:
Adjoint- based hp-adaptivity on anisotropic meshes for high-order compressible flow simulations
New affiliation:
Postdoctoral Fellow at NASA Langley Research Center

Henrik Barthels M.Sc.
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Bientinesi

Dr. Malak Baydoun
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Dr. Fries / Prof. Behr
Dissertation:
Simulation of Bone Fracture with the Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM)
New affiliation:
Simulation at FEV Motorentechnik GmbH

Rex Bedzra M.Sc.
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Reese / Dr. Vladimirov / Dr. Simon
Dissertation:
Multi-scale modelling of the deformation of fibre reinforced composites

Dr. David Böhme
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Wolf / Prof. Schröder
Dissertation:
Characterization of Computation and Communication Imbalance in Parallel Applications
New affiliation:
Computer Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Dr. Arianna Bosco
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Dr. Reinartz / Prof. Müller
Dissertation:
Reynolds Stress Model for Hypersonic Flow
New affiliation:
Research Scientist at Siemens München

Rhea Isabel Von Bülow M.Sc.
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Wellmann

Mohsin Ali Chaudry M.Sc.
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Georg May
New affiliation:
Scientific Assistant at Continuum Mechanics, Leibniz University Hanover

Dr. Kwok Wah Cheng
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Dr. Fries / Prof. Reusken
Dissertation:
h- and p- XFEM with Application to Two-Phase Incompressible Flow
New affiliation:
Assistant Professor at Singapour Institute of Technology

Dr. Callum Corbett
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Sauer / Prof. Reese
Dissertation:
Efficient Contact Formulations for Adhesion Between Deformable Solids
New affiliation:
Heat Exchanger by Constellium, France

Dr. Denise Degen
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Veroy-Grepl / Prof. Florian Wellmann

Dr. Christian Doberstein
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Berkels/ Prof. Melcher
Dissertation:
Joint Exit Wave Reconstruction and Multimodal Registration of Transmission Electron Microscopy Image Series
New affiliation:
AICES Graduate School

Dr. Malte Döntgen
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Leonhard
Dissertation:
Reaction Models from Reactive Molecular Dynamics and High-Level Kinetics Predictions
New affiliation:
Independent Researcher

Dr. Thang Xuan Duong
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Sauer
Dissertation:
Efficient Contact Computations Based on Isogeometric Discretization, Mortar Methods and Refined Boundary Quadrature
New affiliation:
Postdoctoral Associate at AICES

Dr. Zohreh Ebrahimi
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Dr. Rezende / Prof. Emmerich, Prof. Bührig-Polaczek
Dissertation:
Micromechanical Phase-Field Model and Simulation of Eutectic Growth with Misfit Stresses

Maximilian Eck M.Sc.
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Schuppert
Dissertation:
Predicting Cardiac Arrhythmia in the Vulnerable Diabetes Patient
New affiliation:
Doctoral Student at Bosch Thermotechnik GmbH

Nicolas Gallego-Ortiz M.Sc.
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Bommes
New affiliation:
Doctoral Student at the University of Bern, Schwitzerland

Dr. Anna Lena Gerner
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Karen Veroy-Grepl/ Prof. Arnold Reusken
Dissertation:
Certified Reduced Basis Methods for Parametrized Saddle Point Problems
New affiliation:
Manager for Business Intelligence, at Allianz, Munich

Maximilian Harmel M.Sc.
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Sauer

Martin Heistermann M.Sc.
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Bommes
New affiliation:
Doctoral Student at the University of Bern, Schwitzerland

Dr. Markus Höhnerbach
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Bientinesi / Prof. Ismail

Simin Huang M.Sc.
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Wellmann / Prof. Clauser

Dr. Francesca Iacono
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. May / Prof. Dahmen
Dissertation:
High-Order Adaptive Methods for Convection-Dominated Nonlinear Problems Using Multilevel Solution Techniques
New affiliation:
Nacelle Industrial Integration Manager at Airbus Group Hamburg

Dr. Roman Iakymchuk
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Bientinesi / Prof. Quintana Ortì
Dissertation:
Performance Modeling and Prediction for Linear Algebra Algorithms
New affiliation:
Postdoctoral Fellow at KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Dr. Rolf Isele-Holder
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Ismail / Prof. Bardow
Dissertation:
Molecular Phenomena in Dynamic Wetting - Superspreading and Precursors
New affiliation:
Lanxess Deutschland GmbH

Dr. Mark Kärcher
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Grepl / Prof. Volkwein
Dissertation:
Reduced Basis A Posteriori Error Estimation for PDE-Constrained Optimization
New affiliation:
Machine Learning Engineer at NavVis GmbH, Munich

Dr. Markus Krauß
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Schuppert
Dissertation:
Coupling Genome-Scale Metabolic Networks with Whole-Body Pharmacokinetic Models for Multi-Scale Analysis of Network Perturbations
New affiliation:
Scientist Modeling & Simulation at Bayer AG

Dr. Jeyashree Krishnan
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Schuppert / Dr. Di Napoli
Dissertation:
Modeling and Simulation of Complex Networks in Systems Biology
New affiliation:
Postdoctoral Researcher in the Joint Program on Neurodegenerative Diseases (JPND)

Dr. Michael Lenz
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Schuppert / Prof. Zenke
Dissertation:
A two-scale map of global gene expression for characterising in vitro engineered cells
New affiliation:
Postdoctoral Research Associate at Maastricht University

Heng Liu M.Sc.
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Bommes
New affiliation:
Doctoral Student at the University of Bern, Schwitzerland

Thomas Ludescher M.Sc.
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. May
New affiliation:
Doctoral Student at the Institut für Geometrie und Praktische Mathematik, RWTH University Aachen

Dr. Janine Mergel
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Sauer
Dissertation:
Advanced Computational Models for the Analysis of Friction and Adhesion
New affiliation:
Computational Engineer for BMW, Munich

Dr. Niklas Mevenkamp
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Berkels / Prof. Dahmen
Dissertation:
Non-local Denoising and Unsupervised Quantitative Analysis in Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
New affiliation:
Research Scientist for Computational Imaging at Carl Zeiss AG

Maryam Montazeri M.Sc.
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Schuppert

Kareem Noureldin M.Sc.
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Dr. Reinartz/ Prof. Müller
Dissertation:
Aero-Thermodynamic Design of a Scramjet Propulsion System for Future Space Transportation Systems
New affiliation:
Project Engineer at DLR Stuttgart

Dr. Robert O'Connor
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Grepl
New affiliation:
Software Engineer at Google, Pittsburgh

Yannick Omar M.Sc.
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Sauer

Dr. Muhammad Osman
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Dr. Sauer / Prof. Reusken
Dissertation:
Continuum Mechanical Modeling Aspects of Self-Cleaning Surface Mechanisms.
New affiliation:
Lead CAE-Engineer at Magna International Austria

Dr. Martin Carballo Pacheco
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Strodel / Prof. Ismail
Dissertation:
Atomistic Simulations of Amyloidogenic Peptides and their Aggregation
New affiliation:
Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Edinburgh

Dr. Zongrui Pei
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Dr. Friak / Prof. Svendsen
Dissertation:
Ab-Initio Study of Mg Alloys: Towards Design of New Ductile Structure Materials
New affiliation:
Postdoctoral Associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory Tennessee

Michal Rajski M.Sc.
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Sauer

Dr. Matthias Petschow
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Bientinesi / Prof. Grasedyck
Dissertation:
MRRR-Based Eigensolvers for Multi-Core Processors and Supercomputers
New affiliation:
Postdoctoral Researcher at ASTRON Netherlands

Dr. Elmar Peise
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Bientinesi
Dissertation:
Performance Modeling and Prediction for Dense Linear Algebra
New affiliation:
Software Engineer at Google Dublin, Ireland

Dr. Ajay Rangarajan M.Sc.
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. May

Dr. Raheel Rasool
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Sauer / Prof. Behr
Dissertation:
Finite Element Modeling of the Fluid Flow within Small Water Droplets in Contact with Rough Surfaces
New affiliation:
ResearchAssistant at the University of the Federal Armed Forces, Munich

Dr. Farshad Roohbakhshan
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Sauer
Dissertation:
Membrane and Shell Formulations for Biological Materials such as Arteries and Lung Tissue
New affiliation:
Postdoctoral Researcher at Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin

Dr. Stephan Schaller
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Schuppert / Prof. Marquardt
Dissertation:
Closed-Loop Blood Glucose Control using Physiology-Based Model Kernels
New affiliation:
Founder & CEO at esqlabs GmbH , Frankfurt am Main

Dr. Lisa Schätzle
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Schuppert/ Prof. Wiechert
Dissertation:
Translational Modeling of Drug Efficacy in Cancer
New affiliation:
Postdoctoral Associate at JRC-Combine

Arne Schenk M.Sc.
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Schuppert

Prof. Dr. Matthias Schlottbom
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Egger / Prof. Frank / Prof. Marquardt
Dissertation:
On Forward and Inverse Models in Optical Tomography
New affiliation:
Assistant Professor at University Twente, The Netherlands

Dr. Marcus Schmidt
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Ismail / Dr. Sauer
Dissertation:
Continuum Mechanical Surrogate Models for Atomistic Simulations with Applications to Contact Problems
New affiliation:
Employee at EOS, Munich

Dipl.-Math. Bernhard Schuldt
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. May / Prof. Schuppert
Dissertation:
Analysis and Simulation of Stress Induced Phase Transitions in Complex, Scale Free Networks With Applications in Biotechnology and Systems Biology

Dr. Kai Schüller
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Dr. Kowalski / Prof. Behr
Dissertation:
Close-contact Melting - Process Insights and Relevance for Ice Exploration
New affiliation:
Software Engineer at Scisys Deutschland GmbH, Bochum

Prof. Dr. Jochen Schütz
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. May / Prof. Noelle
Dissertation:
A Hybrid Mixed Finite Element Scheme for the Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations and Adjoint-Based Error Control for Target Functionals
New affiliation:
Professor at Hasselt University

Dr. Nima Hamidi Siboni
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Dr. Dierk Raabe/ Priv. Doz. Fathollah Varnik
Dissertation:
Molecular Dynamics Studies of Thermodynamical Consistency and Non-locality of Effective Temperature
New affiliation:
Scientific Assistant at Technical University of Berlin, Germany

Paul Springer M.Sc.
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Bientinesi/ Prof. Bücker
New affiliation:
Senior Developer Technology Engineer at NVIDIA, Santa Clara, California, USA

Dr. Atanas Stavrev
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Dr. Elgeti / Prof. Behr
Dissertation:
NURBS – Enhanced Geometry Handling for Free-Surface Flow Problems and Immersed Boundary Methods
New affiliation:
BPM Consultant ARIS M2E/Business and IT-Aligment at Software AG

Johannes Stemick M.Sc.
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Grepl / Prof. Dahmen

Dr. Zoltán Péter Szebenyi
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Wolf / Prof. Behr
Dissertation:
Capturing Parallel Performance Dynamics
New affiliation:
Software Engineer at Google, Switzerland

Dr. Daniel Tameling
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Ismail / Prof. Bientinesi
Dissertation:
Design, Implementation, and Error Analysis of the Multilevel Summation Method for Dispersion
New affiliation:
Benchmarking Analyst at NEC Deutschland GmbH, Düsseldorf

Rosalia Tatano M.Sc.
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Berkels / Prof. Dahmen

Zoi Tokoutsi M.Sc.
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Veroy-Grepl / Prof. Grepl

Igor Traskunov M.Sc.
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Ismail / Prof. Blümich
New affiliation:
Scientific Fellow at Helmholtz Institute, Ulm

Dr. Diego Fabregat Traver
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Bientinesi / Prof. Bischof
Dissertation:
Knowledge-Based Automatic Generation of Algorithms and Code
New affiliation:
Software Developer at Utimaco

Dr. Sonia Victoria Vivas Prieto
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. May / Prof. Schuppert
Dissertation:
Genomic and Clinical Data Correlation: A Novel Approach for Relapse Prediction in Cancer samples
New affiliation:
Head of Clinical Data Analystics at Molecular Health GmBH, Heidelberg

Dr. Christian Waluga
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Egger / Prof. Dahmen
Dissertation:
Analysis of Hybrid Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Incompressible Flow Problems
New affiliation:
Software Developer at liNear GmbH Aachen

Dr. Sandra Wienke
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Müller / Prof. Bientinesi
Dissertation:
Productivity and Software Development Effort Estimation in High-Performance Computing
New affiliation:
Postdoctoral Assistant of HPC-Group at IT-Center RWTH Aachen

Jan Winkelmann M.Sc.
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Dr. Di Napoli/ Prof. Bientinesi
Dissertation:
Computational Problems in Material Science

Michael Woopen M.Sc.
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. May
Dissertation:
A Hybridized Adaptive Method for Compressible Flow Simulation
New affiliation:
Head of Aerothermal at Aero DesignWorks GmbH

Dr. Sheng Ying Yue
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Hu / Dr. Di Napoli
Dissertation:
Thermal Properties of Phonons and Electrons in Materials from ab initio
New affiliation:
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Dr. Mohammad Zakerzadeh
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. May
Dissertation:
Stable and Convergent Class of DG Schemes for Conservation Laws
New affiliation:
Inria Research Center of Paris

Dr. Lorenzo Zanon
New affiliation:
Software Developer at Computing Center HLRS, Stuttgart University

Mickael Zehren M.Sc.
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Bientinesi / Prof. Alunno

Dr. Yanguang Zhou
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Hu / Prof. Svendsen
Dissertation:
Atomistic Modelling of Heat and Charge Transport Properties in Nanostructures
New affiliation:
Postdoctoral Assistant at University of California, Los Angeles

Lichuan Zhang M.Sc.
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Hu
New affiliation:
Peter Grünberg Institute (PGI-1) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-1) in Jüllich Research Center

Alexander Zimmerman M.Sc.
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Dr. Kowalski/Prof. Dr. Frank

Dr. Christopher Zimmermann
Advisor / Co-advisor:
Prof. Sauer