Curriculum Vitae
| Coordinates |
 My entry at Mathematics Genealogy Project |
|
|---|---|---|
| 1983-1996 | Basic school education | |
| 1996-1997 | Social service as paramedic | |
| 1997-2000 | University of Kaiserslautern, Germany | |
| Undergraduate studies in Technomathematics (minor: physics) | ||
| 2000-2001 | Lawrence Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley, CA | |
| 2001-2006 | University of Kaiserslautern, Germany | |
| Graduate studies in applied mathematics | ||
| 2006-present | MIT, Cambridge, MA | |
| Instructor of Applied Mathematics | ||
| Degrees | ||
| 2003 | Diploma (MSc), Certificates of Mathematics International and ECMI | |
| Thesis: Optimal prediction in molecular dynamics | ||
| 2006 | Dr.rer.nat. (PhD) | |
| Thesis: M-matrices in meshless finite difference methods | ||
| Awards and Support | ||
| 2001 | Otto A. Wipprecht Fellowship | |
| 2003-2006 | Fellowship by the German Reseach Foundation in the Graduate college Mathematics and Practice | |
| 2008-2011 | NSF grant DMS-0813648, Capturing subgrid structures with level set methods | |
| Personal Interests | ||
| Ultimate frisbee, soccer, skiing, travels | ||