About Jennifer Niessner
Career
Since 2020
Director of the Fluid Lab and of the Institute of Flow in Additively Manufactured Porous Media (ISAPS), Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences
Since 2014
Professor at Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences
2011- 2014
Technical project leader and research engineer, Corporate Research, Robert Bosch GmbH, Gerlingen, Germany
2007-2011
Akademische Rätin, University of Stuttgart
2007-2008
Post-Doc: Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Niederlande
2006-2007
Tenured research staff, University of Stuttgart, Germany
2003-2006
Doctoral student, University of Stuttgart, Germany
1998-2003
Study of “Water Resources Engineering and Management“ (M.Sc.) and “Environmental Engineering” (Dipl.-Ing.), University of Stuttgart, Germany
Scientific qualifications
2010
Habilitation, University of Stuttgart: “The role of interfacial area in porous medium flow – bridging scales and coupling models”
2006
Doctoral degree (with distinction). Institute of Hydraulic Engineering, University of Stuttgart, “Multi-Scale Modeling of Multi-Phase - Multi-Component Processes in Heterogeneous Porous Media”
2005
Research fellow at the University of Bergen, Norway (2 months)
2003
Dipl.-Ing. / M.Sc. Thesis, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Paris (with distinction)
Honors and Awards
2023
“Professor des Jahres” (professor of the year), 3rd prize in the category "Engineering / informatics". Nationwide competition by the UNICUM Foundation under the auspices of the BMBF and the BMWK.
2022
“Wissenschaftspreis für herausragende anwendungsorientierte Forschung” (scientific prize for excellent applied research) by the Thomas Gessmann Foundation
2022
Appointed member of the "Indoor Air Hygiene Commission" (Kommission Innenraumlufthygiene) of the Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt) for the appointment period 2022-2025
2021
Appointed Member of the Baden-Württemberg Center of Applied Research (BW-CAR)
2020
Research professor of Fluid Mechanics at Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences
2020
Appointed member of the "Expertenkreis Aerosole" of the state government of Baden-Württemberg
2011
SIAM Geosciences Junior Scientist Prize of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
2011
Sigrid-und-Viktor-Dulger-Preis by the „Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften“
2009
Invited participant of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung: Indo-German Frontiers of Engineering Symposium in Chennai, India
2008
Scholarship “Fast Track“ by Robert-Bosch-Stiftung
2007-2008
Research scholarship by „Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft“ (DFG)
2007
“Preis der Freunde der Universität Stuttgart” for the dissertation
2004-2005
Scholarship by the „Landesgraduiertenförderung Baden-Württemberg“
2004
“Preis der Freunde der Universität Stuttgart” for the Dipl.-Ing.- / M.Sc. thesis
1998-2003
Scholarship by the „Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes“ in recognition of several prizes in federal and national competitions (mathematics / old languages)
Memberships and Academic Service
Since 2024
Elected member of the dissertation committee of the research unit IV (engineering sciences) of the graduate school of Baden-Württemberg (Promotionsverband Baden-Württemberg)
2024
Member of the "Scientific Committtee" of the FILTECH Conference 2024 in Cologne, Germany
Since 2022
Society of Aerosol Research - Gesellschaft für Aerosolforschung (GAeF)
American Filtration Society (AFS)
Deputy ombudsman for good scientific praxis (stellvertretender Ombudsman für die Wissenschaft) at Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences
Since 2021
Baden-Württemberg Center of Applied Research (BW-CAR); now: graduate school Baden-Württemberg (Promotionsverband Baden-Württemberg)
Since 2020
Senate commission "CAE methods and tools" of Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences
Since 2019
Senate commission "Research, Transfer, Innovation" of Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences
Since 2014
German Association of professors - Hochschullehrerbund (hlb)
