Athene Young Investigator
Departments of Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering · TU Darmstadt
Independent interdisciplinary group leadership with primary doctoral supervision rights and independent teaching; successful interim evaluation in 2023.
About
Verified digital twins and agentic workflows for complex thermofluid systems.
I have worked with OpenFOAM since 2007 and co-authored The OpenFOAM Technology Primer. My practice—Verified Agentic Discovery and Design for Thermofluid Systems—connects trustworthy hybrid digital twins with reproducible research software and human-governed scientific agents, especially where interfaces, wetting, sparse evidence, and expensive decisions meet.
Current appointments
Independent research leadership across mathematics and mechanical engineering.
At TU Darmstadt, I am an Athene Young Investigator and Principal Investigator in Thermo-Fluids & Interfaces within the research field Energy + Environment.
Principal Investigator · Thermo-Fluids & Interfaces
Research Field Energy + Environment · TU Darmstadt
Research leadership connecting multiphase-flow methods, wetting, experiments, and data-informed engineering systems.
Formal affiliations
Computational engineering and research-data infrastructure.
- Member · Computational Engineering
TU Darmstadt · March 2023–present
Interdisciplinary affiliation spanning mathematical modelling, simulation, and engineering computation. - Departmental Representative · Research Data Working Group
Department of Mathematics · TU Darmstadt · April 2024–present
Advising university leadership on research infrastructure and digitalization.
Leadership evidence
Methods, people, and infrastructure.
- Primary supervisor of six completed and two ongoing doctorates.
- Five fully industry-funded doctoral positions secured as PI and primary supervisor.
- Principal Investigator of SFB 1194 Z-INF in its final phase.
- Lead of the NFDI4Ing research-software-development service, 2022–2025.
Previous software entrepreneurship
Scientific software beyond the university.
I co-founded Sourceflux UG on a part-time basis from 2014 to 2017, working on scientific software and engineering consultancy alongside academic research. That experience informs how I now structure technical scope, reusable software, delivery, and transfer.
Public academic record
Appointments, chronology, teaching, supervision, funding, and service.
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