Curriculum Vitae
| Coordinates |
 My entry at Mathematics Genealogy Project |
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|---|---|---|
| 1983-1996 | Basic school education | |
| 1996-1997 | Social service as emergency medical technician | |
| 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 | |
| 2006-2009 | MIT, Cambridge, MA
Instructor of Applied Mathematics | |
| 2009-2015 | Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Assistant Professor of Mathematics | |
| 2015-2022 | Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Associate Professor of Mathematics | |
| 2020-2022 | Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Associate Professor of Physics | |
| 2017-present | Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Director, Center for Computational Mathematics and Modeling | |
| 2022-present | Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Professor of Mathematics and Physics | |
| Degrees | ||
| 2003 | Diploma Dipl.-Math.techn. (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 Research Foundation in the Graduate college Mathematics and Practice | |
| 2008-2013 | NSF grant DMS-0813648 (Comput. Math), Capturing subgrid structures with level set methods | |
| 2010-2013 | NSF grant DMS-1007899 (Applied Math), Collaborative Research: Phantom traffic jams, continuum modeling, and connections with detonation wave theory | |
| 2011-2014 | NSF grant DMS-1115269 (Comput. Math), Collaborative Research: Numerical approaches for incompressible viscous flows with high order accuracy up to the boundary | |
| 2013-2016 | NSF grant DMS-1318641 (Comput. Math), A computational framework for atherosclerotic plaque growth simulations | |
| 2013-2016 | NSF grant DMS-1318709 (Comput. Math), Collaborative Research: Gradient-augmented level set methods and jet schemes | |
| 2013 | Greenshields Prize by the Committee on Traffic Flow Theory & Characteristics, Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences | |
| 2015-2018 | NSF grant CNS-1446690 (ITR CPS), CPS: Synergy: Collaborative Research: Control of vehicular traffic flow via low density autonomous vehicles | |
| 2016 | Dean's Distinguished Excellence in Mentoring Award, College of Science and Technology, Temple University | |
| 2017-2020 | NSF grant DMS-1719640 (Comput. Math), Collaborative Research: Overcoming order reduction and stability restrictions in high-order time-stepping | |
| 2018 | PA Dept. of Agriculture grant, An integrative approach to model, predict and control the spotted lanternfly invasion meltdown in Pennsylvania | |
| 2018-2020 | PA Dept. of Agriculture grant, Furthering computational approaches for modeling, predicting and controlling Spotted Lanternfly invasion and its economic impact | |
| 2019-2020 | PA Dept. of Agriculture grant, Integrated approach to understand Spotted Lanternfly population dynamics | |
| 2020 | Simons Participant long program Mathematical Challenges and Opportunities for Autonomous Vehicles (Fall 2020) by the Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics | |
| 2020-2023 | DOE grant DE-EE000887 (EERE, VTO), CIRCLES: Congestion Impact Reduction via CAV-in-the-loop Lagrangian Energy Smoothing (lead: UC Berkeley) | |
| 2020 | US Dept. of Agriculture grant (APHIS), Linking field biology and mathematical modeling to predict Spotted Lanternfly spread and optimal control | |
| 2020-2024 | US Dept. of Agriculture grant (CSRI), Biology, management and reducing the impact of the Spotted Lanternfly on specialty crops in the Eastern USA (lead: Penn State) | |
| 2020-2024 | NSF grant DMS-1952878 (CDS&E-MSS), Flexible and Scalable Moment Method Simulations for Radiation Transport and Nuclear Medicine Applications | |
| 2020-2023 | NSF grant DMS-2012271 (Comput. Math), Collaborative Research: Euler-Based Time-Stepping with Optimal Stability and Accuracy for Partial Differential Equations | |
| 2020-2021 | US Dept. of Agriculture grant (PPQ FarmBill), Mathematical modeling of Spotted Lanternfly population dynamics to aide in spread prediction and control optimization | |
| 2021-2023 | PA Dept. of Agriculture grant, Furthering computational approaches to model the Spotted Lanternfly invasion and economic impacts | |
| 2022-2024 | US Dept. of Agriculture grant (APHIS), Mathematical modeling of the spread of the Spotted Lanternfly to design optimal protocols and strategies for control | |
| 2023-2024 | NSF grant DMS-2330895 (conference grant), Conference: Mathematical Opportunities in Digital Twins (MATH-DT) | |
| 2023-2026 | NSF grant DMS-2309728 (Comput. Math), Collaborative Research: Accuracy-Preserving Robust Time-Stepping Methods for Fluid Problems | |
| Personal Interests | ||
| Soccer, Ultimate frisbee, skiing, travels, board games | ||