CV
My CV
Professional experience
- Experience in FEM, FD, FFT, phase-field and front-tracking techniques (numerical simulations)
- Organizing workshops, conferences, excursions and field-trips
- Performed day-to-day administration, supervision and teaching tasks
- (Real-time) Statistical analysis
- Design and implementation of 2D and 3D numerical simulations
- Programing in C, C++, Python, Java
- Coordinating an international team of developers (agile developing)
- Budget handling
- Communication and publication of research results
Skills
Technical skills
- Raster Electron Microscopy (REM)
- Electron Back-Scatter Diffraction (EBSD)
- X-ray tomography
- Anisotropy of the Magnetic Susceptibility (AMS)
- (Anisotropic) Isothermal Remanent Magnetization (IRM, AIRM)
- High-Field Analysis (HFA)
Language skills
- German mother tongue
- English fluent
- French basics
IT skills
- Programming C++, C, Pyhton, (Visual)Basic, Fortran, Program design (e.g. UML), Scrum
- Libraries wxWidgets, CGAL, boost (pthread), VTK
- Scripting Perl, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, MySQL, CMake
- Os's Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and 9
- Applications Office, CorelDraw, Gimp, AutoCad, GoCad, Apache, MySQL, ArcView, gmt, LabView, Eclipse, Eric, Scite, MatLab, Zope/Plone
Work experience
- 12/2006 – 03/2010 Assistant Professor (University of Tübingen (Germany), Institute of Geosciences, Geodynamics group, Wilhelmstrasse 56, 72072 Tuebingen, Germany)
- 11/2007 – 04/2008 Visiting Scientist at the University of Strasbourg, France
Project: 3D modeling of polycrystalline substructure development, with particular emphasis on ice and NaCl (DFG Research Grant).
Responsibilities: head of computer pool, lecturer, training co-workers in numerical simulation methods, supervision of students (PhD, Master & Bachelor), communication and publication of research results, code design and development, budget handling,
Responsibilities: head of computer pool, lecturer, training co-workers in numerical simulation methods, supervision of students (PhD, Master & Bachelor), communication and publication of research results, code design and development, budget handling,
- 02/2005 – 11/2006 Research Fellow (University of Tübingen (Germany), Institute of Geosciences, Geodynamics group, Wilhelmstrasse 56, 72072 Tuebingen, Germany)
Project: Numerical simulation of partial melts. (DFG Research Grant)
Responsibilities: lecturer, supervision of students, code design and development, network and computer administrator, budget handling, communication and publication of research results
Responsibilities: lecturer, supervision of students, code design and development, network and computer administrator, budget handling, communication and publication of research results
- 10/2004 – 01/2005 Programmer (University of Tübingen (Germany), Faculty of Applied Geology, Hydromechanics group, Sigwartstrasse 10, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany)
Task: Programming a filter (read in, recalculate and process) of (Database-)Files of a commercial simulation software for in-house developed code (C++)
- 10/2002 – 09/2004 Research Fellow (University of Mainz (Germany), Institute of Geosciences, Tectonophysics group)
- 06/2003 – 07/2003 Honorary Research Associate at the University of Melbourne, Australia
Project: Integrated numerical simulations and analogue 3D experiments of microstructural processes. (DFG Research Grant)
Responsibilities: lecturer, budget handling, communication and publication of research results, code design and development, network and computer administrator,
Responsibilities: lecturer, budget handling, communication and publication of research results, code design and development, network and computer administrator,
- 07/2000 – 09/2002 Research Fellow (University of Ottawa (Canada), Faculty of Earth Science)
Project: Archean cratons and granit-greenstone complexes. (DFG Research Grant)
Responsibilities: head of magnetics lab, public relations, budget handling, communication and publication of research results, data analysis, supervision of students
Responsibilities: head of magnetics lab, public relations, budget handling, communication and publication of research results, data analysis, supervision of students
Education / Qualification
- 05/2009 Habilitation at the University of Tübingen (Germany) in Geology/GeoInformatics (GeoComputing)
- 06/2000 Ph.D. thesis at the University of Göttingen (Germany) and the University of Harare (Zimbabwe)
- 04/1997 Diploma in Geology/Paleontology at the University of Göttingen (Germany)

