Career after graduation

since 2013

• Member of the Strategy Board of RWTH Aachen University

2010 – 2012

• Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University

since 08/1998

• University Professor and Head of the Institute of Aerodynamics of RWTH Aachen University

1995 – 1998

• Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenbüttel

1989 – 1995

• Head of Aerodynamics, Division of Astronautics, DASA AG

1987 – 1989

• DFG scholarship recipient at CalTech, USA

1983 – 1989

• Research Assistant at the Institute of Aerodynamics im Schwerpunktprogramm “Finite Approximationen in der Strömungsmechanik”

Memberships

• Mitglied der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

• DFG Fachkollegiat Strömungsmechanik 2012 – 2015

• Chair of DFG Fachkollegium Strömungsmechanik 404

• Editor-in-Chief: Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design, Springer Series

• Associate Editor European Journal Mechanics – B/Fluids

• Editorial Board: International Journal of Aeroacoustics, Computational Fluid Dynamics Journal

• International Advisory Board, Thermophysics and Aeromechanics

• Reviewer DFG, BMBF, AIF, ZAMM, Comp. & Fl., AIAA, JFM etc.

• member of AIAA, DGLR, EUROMECH, GAMM, APS

Awards

2014

• Fellow, RWTH Aachen University

2013

• Carl Friedrich Gauss Preis der Braunschweigischen Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft

1988

• Hermann-Reissner-Preis für Flugzeugbau der Fakultät für Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik der Universität Stuttgart in Gemeinschaft mit Dr. D. Hänel und Dr. R. Schwane

1987

• Borchers Plakette der RWTH Aachen University