Head of the Flow Control and Acoustics Group

• since September 2011: Professor for Flow Control and Aeroacoustics at the Institute of Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics, Technische Universität München

• January 2009 – August 2011: Research & Development, process engineering, Jülich.

• July 2004-December 2008: Deutsche Bahn AG, DB Systemtechnik, Aerodynamics and HVAC group, München-Freimann. Project manager for "Aerodynamics in Open Air".

• February 2002, Habilitation thesis "Numerical simulation and analysis of turbulent flows", Technische Universität Berlin

• July 1998-June 2004: Assistant at the Hermann-Föttinger-Institute for Fluid mechanics (now ISTA), Technische Universität Berlin; Project manager in Sfb 557 "Control of complex turbulent shear flows"

• November 1995-June 1998: Assistant, Department of Mathematics, Technische Universität Berlin

• September 1992-October 1995: Postdoctoral Fellow at Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University/NASA Ames Research Center, CA, USA.

• August 1989-August 1992: Doctoral student at the DLR institute of physics of the atmosphere, Oberpfaffenhofen. Supervisor: Prof. U. Schumann, thesis "Turbulent diffusion in a homogeneous shear flow with stable density stratification". Scholarship of Volkswagenstiftung.

• June 1989: Diploma in mechanical engineering, Technische Universität München

• October 1985: Intermediate diploma in process engineering, University of Karlsruhe (KIT)
  
  

• Numerical flow simulation and computational aeroacoustics (CAA)

• Flow control by passive and active means

• Aerodynamics and aeroacoustics of vehicles (road, rail, aerospace)

• Flow noise generation and attenuation in ducts
  
  

Lectures with Exercises:

Aeroacoustics (MW 1692): WS

Continuum Mechanics (MW 1405): WS

Fundamentals of Numerical Fluid Mechanics (MW 1913): WS, SoSe

Computational Aeroacoustics (MW 2204): SoSe

Flow Control (MW 2078): SoSe

Practical Courses:

Computational Aeroacoustics - Practical Course (MW 2268): SoSe

Computational Fluid Dynamics - Practical Course (MW 1846): WS, SoSe

Peer reviewed Journal Papers see here.

Conference Proceedings see here.

Reports see here.