Since Januar 2006                                                                                                                                             

• Carnegie Mellon University, Mellon College of Science,
  Department of Mathematical Sciences
  (www.math.cmu.edu)
  
• Research associate, research field: numerical simulation of graingrowth,
  Material Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC)

June 1998 - December 2005                                                                                 

• Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing SCAI, 
  former German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD),
  Sankt Augustin, Germany
  (www.fraunhofer.de, www.scai.fraunhofer.de)
• Research associate
• Duties:
  
  • Scientific assistant of the head of the department and scientific coordination
  • Assistant of the Fraunhofer ICT Group (Information and Communication Technology Group), www.iuk.fraunhofer.de
  • Project Autobench, Environment for the Development of Virtual Automotive Prototypes,
    parameter optimization of numerical simulations, related to  structural mechanical deformation processes
    

• German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD), Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing SCAI, Sankt Augustin, Germany (today's Fraunhofer Institute SCAI), Sankt Augustin, Germany
• Graduate student research assistant, institute led by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Trottenberg
• Differential optimization methods, inverse problems, dynamical systems
  
  
  

July 1994 - August 1995

• German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD), Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing SCAI, Sankt Augustin, Germany (today's Fraunhofer Institute SCAI), Sankt Augustin, Germany
• Student research assistant at GMD SCAI,
  institute led by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Trottenberg
• Duties: Parallel programming  using PARMAC