Ph.D in Mathematics
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany
Dissertation: Multigrid methods for convection-dominated problems.
Adviser: Prof. Wolfgang Hackbusch
10/1996 - 5/1999
Ph.D. student at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany
10/1995 - 9/1996
University of California, San Diego (UCSD),
Visiting research fellow, Advisor: Prof. Randolph E. Bank
2/1995
Diploma in Mathematics
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel
Thesis: CG-like methods for solving nonsymmetric linear systems of equations.
Adviser: Prof. Wolfgang Hackbusch
7/1992 - 3/1993
Visiting student at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
10/1990 - 2/1995
Student of Mathematics (and computer science) at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany
Employment
since 9/2012
Professor (Numerical Mathematics) at the Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
9/2011 - 8/2012
Program Director (Computational Mathematics Program, MPS/DMS) at the National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, USA
1/2010 - 6/2010
Visiting research fellow at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel,
Germany (Scientific computing department at the Institute for Computer Science)
8/2006 - 7/2007
Visiting research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, Germany (Scientific computing group)
8/2001 - 8/2012
(Assistant, Associate, Full) Professor (Mathematics) at Tennessee Technological University,Cookeville, Tennessee, USA
1/2001 - 7/2001
Post-doctoral associate at the Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, Germany
10/1996 - 12/2000
Teaching and research assistant, Department of Applied Mathematics,
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany
10/1995 - 9/1996
Visiting scholar at the University of California in San Diego, USA
4/1995 - 9/1995
Software engineer at SAP, Walldorf, Germany
7/1993 - 10/1993
Student intern at IBM, Hamburg, Germany
4/1993 - 2/1995
Student teaching and research assistant, Department of Applied Mathematics, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany
