Biography

PD Dr. Mathias J. Krause studied mathematics with economics at the Universität Karlsruhe (TH) in Germany and the Cardiff University in Wales. He graduated in 2006. Afterwards, he joined the Institute of Applied and Numerical Mathematics (IANM) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He received a doctorate (2010) with his thesis on fluid flow control and optimisation and habilitated (2021). Since April 2013, he heads the interdisciplinary Lattice Boltzmann Research Group (LBRG) at KIT. PD Dr. Krause published many articles in scientific journals, gave many presentations at international conferences and initiated various interdisciplinary research projects. He is initiator and main author of the open source library OpenLB that is a C++ code for the simulation of 2D and 3D fluid flows by means of Lattice Boltzmann Methods (LBM). His work was honoured at the Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Awards in 2007 and 2009 and at the Mimics Innovation Awards in the category Innovations in Computer Aided Engineering in 2011.

Research Interests

PD Dr. Krause's research interests are mainly dedicated to the fields of applied mathematics, applied computer science with focus on High Performance Computing (HPC), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and optimisation under the constraints of partial differential equations.

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Publications

Click here for a list of my publications or visit my profiles at Research Gate or Google Scholar. Download interesting book chapter on the importance of numerical simulations for science!

Academic self governance and responsibilities

International exchange coordinator
(except ERASMUS: Department of Mathematics: Dr. Daniel Weiß and Process Engineering Department: Marion Benoit)

• Establishment of the contact to KIT International Affairs
• Responsible for the following grant programs:
  • DAAD: German Academic Exchange Service
  • Humboldt foundation
  • BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research)
  • DfG
  • BMWi
  • ...
• for students:
  • Establishing contacts for international internships and studies
  • Help with letters of recommendation
  • Funding advice
• for academic staff:
  • Establishing contacts to international partners
  • Internal review for DAAD and Humboldt foundation
  • Funding advice for cooperations and projects
• for grant programs:
  • Review of grant proposals

Tutor Training Coordination (department of mathematics)
"Start in Teaching" – The Tutor Program at KIT

• Establishment of the contact to KIT Human Resources Development and Vocational Training
• Coordination of the application process
• Advertisement of the program

PR work on selected topics

• Content administration of the website of the mathematics department in cooperation with PD Dr. Gudrun Thäter
• Maintenance of a YouTube channel with research-related results
• Contribution of content and participation at the open day and other public events

Memberships

• MathSEE (Initiator)
• Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaft (Akademiekollegiat)
• International Scientific Board of the Airbus-Renault-Safran Chair on LBM
• Scientific Advisory Board of the UK Consortium on Mesoscale Engineering Sciences
• Associate Editor Computers and Fluids

External courses

Initiator and coordinator of

• Spring School: Lattice Boltzmann Methods with OpenLB Software Lab
• Simulation of particle-laden flows

Recent Lectures and Courses