Welcome

Gaining insight in geo and climate sciences is closely related to demanding computer simulation, since we cannot use the world in which we live as a laboratory. It is my goal as an applied mathematician to contribute basic methods for supporting such simulations.

Research focus

Together with my group we develop numerical methods, which can represent multi-scale geophysical processes. These are for example:

• adaptive two- and three-dimensional tracer dispersion
• adaptive numerical methods for inundation and tsunami simulation
• multi-scale representation of sub-grid processes in climate simulation

Short Vita

• since 2009 Professor for numerical methodes in geosciences, KlimaCampus, Universität Hamburg
• 2012 Guest scientist at Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK
• 2007-2009 Adjunct professor department of mathematics, University of Bremen
• 2006-2009 Head of Tsunami Modeling Group, Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven
• 1998-2006 Assistant Professor/Lecturer, Center for Mathematical Sciences, Technische Universität München
• 2003-2004 Guest scientist at National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
• 1996-1998 Post-Doc, scientific computing, Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven
• 1991-1996 PhD student, scientific computing, Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven