• since 2020 Assistant Professor &  Research Group Leader Turbomachinery
• 2014-2020 Research Assistant
• since 1993 Freelance Mechanic and Engineer

• 2014-2020 German-French PhD LEGI, Grenoble, France & Otto-von-Guericke-University
• 2016-2017 Research stay LEGI Grenoble, France
• 2015 Research stay LEGI, Grenoble France
• 2012-2014 M.Sc. electrical power engineering, specialization in renewable energies, Otto-von-Guericke University
• 2012-2014 M.Sc. Sustainable Energy Systems, specialization Fluid Machinery, Otto-von-Guericke University
• 2008-2012 B. Eng. Mechanical Engineering, specialization Design Engineering, Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences

Teaching

• Turbomachinery: Lecture, Exercise and practical training
• Fluid mechanics: Exercise
• Mesurement techniques: Practical training in velocity measurement
• Sustainability Lecture Series: Lecture

Research

Group leader Turbomachinery

Main focus:
        Renewable energies/ecologically compatible hydropower
        Adaptive structures, fluid-solid interaction
        Experimental and numerical optimization methods
        Hydrokinetic turbines
        Turbine-generator interaction
        Open source based engineering methods

Current projects

• 2023 Numerical investigation of the fish compatibility of the pumping station 'Kudensee' (KSB Service GmbH)
• 2023-2025 WaterJetCleaner Plus - Development of a mobile system for energy-efficient water cleaning (BMWK)
•  2021-2024 OPTIDE - Performance enhancement and improvement of fatigue strength of vertical axis water turbines by active blade adjustment (DFG (D) and Labex TEC21 (F))
•  2019-2024 RETERO - Reduction of fish testing through new scientific methods and technologies (BMBF) (2019-2022)

Completed projects

• 2022 Numerical investigation of fish compatibility of an axial-flow pump (KSB Service GmbH)
• 2015-2018 Wachstumskern Flussstrom Plus Subproject 2, Technology Development for Flotile Power Plants (BMBF)
• 2015-2018 Wachstumskern Flussstrom Plus Plus Subproject 4, Cascade fish-friendly weir (BMBF)

Prizes and scholarships

    2021 Dissertation prize 'Prix européen' of the German-French University
    2021 Environmental Prize of the City of Magdeburg for the Turbomachinery Group
    2014-2016 PhD scholarship of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
    2009-2014 Study scholarship holder of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation

Research partners

   Academic Partners:
    
   LEGI, Grenoble, France
   Env. Sensing Group, Taltech Tallinn, Estonia
   HIFI, Hull University, UK

    Industry partners:
    
    KSB SE & Co. KGaA, Frankenthal
    Voith GmbH & Co. KGaA, Heidenheim
    IGF-Jena, Jena
    SJE Ecohydraulic Engineering GmbH, Stuttgart
    SIBAU GmbH, Genthin

Open Source Software:

Salomé (CAE-Software der EDF, Frankreich)

OpenFOAM® (C++ basierter CFD Toolkit)

foam-extend (Community Fork von Openfoam mit zusätzlichen Funktionen)

fluidImage (PIV software)https://bitbucket.org/fluiddyn/fluidimage)

Research data

•  Data on our publications can be found at the Open Science Repository of the OVGU

Publications

•  List of publications at Google Scholar

A full reference list of the lab can be found under Research