Team

Our Team

Here you find a list of all STFS Staff and their contact information. If you are interested in joining our team, please check on our vacancies .

Professor

Photo Name Contact
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Hasse
+49 6151 16-24142
L1|01 281

Office

Photo Name Working area(s) Contact
Michael Harris		Administration Clean Circles
+49 6151 16-24155
L1|01 283/292
Patricia John		Administration STFS
+49 6151 16-24141
L1|01 283
Office STFS
+49 6151 16-24141
L1|01 283/292

Group Leaders

Photo Name Contact
Dr.-Ing. Magnus Kircher
Group leader internal combustion engines and systems
Simulation of internal combustion engines incorporating knocking combustion modeling
+49 6151 16-24152
L1|01 285
Dr.-Ing. Hendrik Nicolai
Group leader multiphase reacting flows, Group leader thermo-acoustics
Aero Engines / Rolls-Royce University Technology Center, Solid fuel combustion
+49 6151 16-28812
L6|01 308
Dr.-Ing. Arne Scholtissek
Senior academic councillor and vice head of department, Athene Young Investigator, Group leader laminar and turbulent flames
Fundamentals and modeling of chemically-reactive flows
+49 6151 16-24143
L1|01 294
Dr.-Ing. Matthias Steinhausen
CI/CD Coordinator
Modeling of flame-wall interaction
+49 6151 16-24149
L1|01 288

Postdocs

Photo Name Contact
Dr. Xinyi Chen		Hydrogen and ammonia combustion: fundamentals of flame structures
L1|01 288
Dr. Thijs Hazenberg		Solid particle combustion and plasma-assisted combustion
Dr.-Ing. Hanna Reinhardt		 Computational modeling of thermo-acoustics in combustion systems
+49 6151 16-24144
L1|01 293
Dr. Faizan Vance 		Flamelet Modelling, Flame stretch theory, Hydrogen and Solid particle combustion
+49 6151 16-24146
L1|01 291

Doctoral Candidates

Photo Name Working area(s) Contact
Çetin Ozan Alanyalıoğlu M.Sc.		Thermo acoustics: large eddy simulation, compressible flows, aero engines
+49 6151 16-24144
L1|01 293
Vahid Badrkhani M.Sc.		Hydrogen combustion and mixing: numerical Methods for compressible flows, hydrogen jets
+49 6151 16-24152
L1| 01 285
Maximilian Beck M.Sc.		Experimental characterisation and 3D modelling of the thermal runaway of different cell chemistries and formats
Leon Loni Berkel M.Sc.		Solid Fuel combustion: large eddy simulation of biomass combustion, kinetics
+49 6151 16-24149
L1|01 288
Sofya Buro M.Sc.		Hydrogen Combustion: large eddy simulation, aero engines
L1|01 286
Raul Felipe Corrales Flores M.Sc.		Flame retardants: laminar and turbulent boundary layer flames
+49 6151 16-24152
L1|01 285
Adel El Araibi M.Sc.		Hydrogen combustion: 3D-CFD simulation and AI-assisted modeling
+49 711 81118979
María González-Quel García M.Sc.		Turbulent dual-fuel combustion. Hydrogen combustion concepts development for combined H2/e-fuel combustion.
L1|01 293
Max Hasenzahl M.Sc.		Simulation of boundary layer flows in engines: large eddy simulation
+49 6151 16-24147
L1|01 290
Manuel Helferich M.Sc.		Hydrogen combustion: flamelet modeling of laminar and turbulent flames, large eddy Simulation
Viktoria Huschka M.Sc.		Multi-phase flows: Multi-component droplets and sprays
L1|01 288
Zhuoying Jin M.Sc.		Modeling and Analysis of Liquid Ammonia Flow
Driss Kaddar M.Sc		Hydrogen and ammonia combustion: direct numerical simulation, HPC on GPU acceleratos
L1|01 283
T. Jeremy P. Karpowski M.Sc.		Hydrogen combustion and mixing: large eddy simulation, compressible flows
+49 6151 16-24152
L1|01 285
Philipp Koob M.Sc		Sustainable Aviation Fuels: nano particle formation and dynamics, large eddy simulation
+49 6151 16-24144
L1|01 293
Roberto Lange M.Sc.		Multi-phase flows : selective catalytic NOx reduction, large eddy simulation
Johannes Mich M.Sc.		Metal combustion: Fundamentals of iron and aluminum flames
+49 6151 16-24153
L1|01 284
Bich-Diep Nguyen M.Sc.		Metal combustion: iron particle combustion and nanoparticle formation
+49 6151 16-24146
1|01 291
Sandra Recio-Balmaseda M.Sc.		Hydrogen combustion: large eddy simulation of turbulent hydrogen flames, aero engines
+49 6151 16-24144
L1|01 293
Jannis Reusch M.Sc.		Multi-phase flows: methanol sprays, large eddy simulation
+49 6151 16-24148
L1|01 289
Felix Rong M.Sc. M.Sc.		Hydrogen and ammonia combustion: Flamelet modeling, direct numerical simulation
L1|01 285
Max Schneider M.Sc. M.Sc.		Hydrogen combustion: flame-wall (active) interaction, direct numerical simulation, large eddy simulation
L1|01 285
Vinzenz Schuh M.Sc. M.Sc.		Hydrogen combustion: Modeling of turbulence chemistry interaction, direct numerical simulation, large eddy simulation
L1|01 288
Pascal Steffens M.Sc.		Solid Fuel combustion: flamelet modeling, large eddy simulation of biomass combustion, Lagrange particles
+49 6151 16-24150
L1|01 287
Raphael Strickling M.Sc. M.Sc.		Hydrogen combustion: burner shape optimization, large eddy Simulation
L1|01 285
Benjamin Traut M.Sc.		Hydrogen combustion: turbulence chemistry interaction, large eddy simulation, IC engines
L1|01 285
Florian Uetrecht M.Sc.		Thermo acoustics: Hybrid large eddy simulation - Computational aero acoustics
L1|01 293
Antje Vahl M.Sc.		Solid Fuel combustion: large eddy simulation of biomass combustion
L1|01 285-294

Clean Circles Office

  Name Working area(s) Contact
Michael Harris		Administration Clean Circles
+49 6151 16-24155
L1|01 283/292
Dr.-Ing. Marius Schmidt
Managing director Clean Circles
Clean Circles
+49 6151 16-24155
L1|01 284

Associate Lecturers

Photo Name Working area(s) Contact
Dr. Paul Michael Falk		Lecture "Energy Technologies"
L1|01

Associate Researchers

Photo Name Working area(s) Contact
Prof. Dr. Paulo Debiagi		Chemical Kinetics of Solid Fuels Thermochemical Conversion
Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Federica Ferraro		Multidimensional simulations of chemically-reactive flows
+49 531 391 94230
Raum 210
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sandra Hartl		Flamelet/progress variable modelling and flame structure analysis of laminar flames and turbulent flames
Prof. Dr. Xu Wen		Flamelet modeling for multiphase combustion
Photo Name Working area(s) Contact
Rodolfo Cavaliere da Rocha M.Sc.		Single particle modelling of iron combustion
Tom Alzer M.Sc.		Simulation of hydrogen combustion
Julian Bissantz M.Sc.		Machine Learning
Dr.-Ing. Hannes Böttler		Model development and simulation for hydrogen combustion: Forced ignition and intrinsic instabilities
Daniel Braig M.Sc		Modelling and simulation of iron particles
Ömer Hakki Çokuslu M.Sc.		Large Eddy Simulations (LES) of reacting flows, Lean blowout limits of premixed combustion
Dr.-Ing. Felix Dietzsch		Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS)
Silvia Ehlert
Isaac Farias M.Sc.		Hydrogen combustion
Dr.-Ing. Sandro Gierth		Combustion engines and systems
Dr. Wang Han
Dr.-Ing. Philip Haspel		Spray Simulations
Florian Held Dr.-Ing.		Engine Simulation using CFX
Carsten Koch M.Sc.		Engine Simulation with OpenFOAM
Paul Lien M.Sc.		DDT, Engine Knock and Engine Flow
+49 6151 16-24147
L01|01 290
Haris Lulić M.Sc.		Simulation of combustion of Ammonia/Hydrogen mixtures
Dr. Yujuan Luo		Simulation of reacting flows, Near-wall combustion
+49 6151 16-24149
L1|01 288
Dr.-Ing. Danny Messig		Flamelet modeling of reacting flows
Dr. Matthias Niethammer		DNS of multiphase flows
L1|01 286
Dr.-Ing. Kaushal Nishad		Simulaiton of reaktive multiphase flows
Davide Paredi M.Sc.		Simulation of engine sprays
Dr.-Ing. Andrea Pati		Combustion engines and systems
Dr. Ing. Martin Pollack		Development of Quadrature-based moment methods for sprays, Development of Quadrature-based moment methods for transp. PDFs (premixed turb. flames), Simulation of polydisperse bubble flows using Quadrature-based moment methods
Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Popp		Combustion engines and systems
Dr.-Ing. Florian Ries		CFD Engineer of the EU-Project Estimate Clean Sky 2, Development/Implementation of novel stochastical Models for soot formation in turbulent flames
Dr.-Ing. Steffen Salenbauch		Modeling of soot formation in flames and otto-engines, QMOM- and Monte-Carlo Methods
Robert Schmitz M.Sc.		Large Eddy Simulations (LES) of reacting flows, soot formation
Dr. Zhen Sun		Development of numerical Solver
Maresa Tannich M. Sc.		Thermo-Acoustics
Dr. Nicholas Treleaven		Computational modeling of thermo-acoustics in combustion systems
Dr. Michele Vascellari		Modeling of coal gasification, Flamelet modeling of heterogeneous reactions