I am an associate professor in the Mathematics of Computational Science (MACS) group at the University of Twente (UT), The Netherlands.
In my research, I deal with numerics of partial differential equations (PDEs), in particular with finite element methods (FEM), boundary element methods (BEM), and space-time methods. My focus is on adaptive methods, which estimate where the discretization error is large and locally refine the underlying mesh accordingly.
I finished my master studies in Technical Mathematics at TU Wien in 2014 and my PhD studies in Technical Mathematics at TU Wien in the workgroup of Dirk Praetorius in 2017. Until October 2019, I remained there as postdoc. From November 2019 until January 2022, I was postdoc in the workgroup of Rob Stevenson at the University of Amsterdam. From February 2022 until October 2022, I rejoined TU Wien as independent postdoctoral researcher. In November 2022, I started an Inria Starting Faculty Position (ISFP), i.e., a tenured research position with teaching obligation, at Inria Paris. From November 2023 until March 2026, I was a Bonn Junior Fellow (associate professor for mathematics) at the University of Bonn. I joined the University of Twente as associate professor in April 2026.
Awards:
- Member of GAMM juniors (01/2020 – 12/2022)
- Study Prize 2019 of the Austrian Mathematical Society for the best dissertation thesis
- Best Lecture Award 2019 of TU Wien
- Best Paper Award 2017 of the Faculty for Mathematics and Geoinformation (TU Wien)
- Promotio sub auspiciis Praesidentis rei publicae (10/2018)
- Finalist for the ECCOMAS PhD Award for the best theses on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering in 2017
- Dr.-Klaus-Körper Prize 2018 of GAMM for the best dissertation theses of 2017 in the fields of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics
Organisations
My research interests are:
- Numerical treatment of partial differential equations
- Finite element methods (FEM)
- Least-squares FEM
- Boundary element methods (BEM)
- Space-time methods
- Isogeometric analysis (IGA)
- A posteriori error analysis
- Adaptive mesh-refining strategies
- Convergence and optimality of adaptive algorithms
Affiliated study programs
Courses academic year 2025/2026
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Current projects
Optimal adaptive space-time boundary and finite element methods
NWO Vidi research project (04/2026 — 03/2031): funding of 2 PhD students for 4 years and 1 postdoc for 1.5 years
Robust adaptivity for nonlinear partial differential equations
ANR-DFG research project (03/2025 — 04/2028) with Martin Vohralík (Inria Paris): funding of 1 PhD student for 3 years in my group and 1 PhD student for 3 years and 1 postdoc for 1.5 years in Vohralík's group
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