Seit 2020
Director of the Fluid Lab and of the Institute of Flow in Additively Manufactured Porous Media (ISAPS), Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences
Seit 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, Universität Stuttgart
2007-2008
Post-Doc: Department of Earth Sciences, Universität Utrecht, 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
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)
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)