Team leader and Jun.-Prof. in Applied Mathematics

MPI for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems

OvG University Magdeburg

That’s me

Researcher and team leader in the working group Computational Methods of Systems and Control Theory at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg and a Junior Professor at the Otto-von-Guericke University.

Interests

Differential-algebraic Equations
Systems and Control Theory
Flow Control

Education

PhD in Mathematics, 2014

TU Berlin

Curriculum Vitae

Professor

Friedrich-Alexander University

Oct 2021 – Oct 2022 Erlangen

Teaching and Research in Mathematics of Data Science

Junior Professor

Otto-von-Guericke University

May 2018 – Present Magdeburg

Teaching and academic self-management

Researcher

MPI for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems

Nov 2013 – Present Magdeburg

Basic research on control systems and responsibility for the research team Computer Aided Control System Design

Researcher

TU Berlin

Oct 2009 – Oct 2013 Berlin

PhD Projection on Decoupling, Semi-Discretization, and Optimal Control of Semi-linear Semi-explicit Index-2 Abstract Differential-Algebraic Equations and Application in Optimal Flow Control

Student Employee

Bombardier Transportation

Jun 2007 – Sep 2009 Berlin

Department of aerodynamics: implementation of an automated approach for shape optimization and wind tunnel testings

Teaching

Current Course (Summer Term 2021)

Topic	Location
Lecture: Einführung in die Numerik	🎤 Mo 15-17 im G02-111 und Do 15-17 im G22A-105	LSF, Moodle
Exercise: Einführung in die Numerik	🎤 Fr 13-15 im G02-112	LSF, Moodle

Selected Previous Courses

Topic	Occasion
Lecture: Einführung in die Mathematische Datenanalyse	Summer Term 2022 at FAU	StudOn, Skript
Lecture: Mathematik für Data Science 1&2 / Physik A&B	Summer&Winter Term at FAU	StudOn, Skript
Lecture: Mathematik 2 für Informatik	Summer terms 2020 and 2021 at the OVGU
Seminar: Geometric formulations of inviscid fluids and their discretization (with C. Lessig)	Winter term 2019 at OVGU	LSF
Lecture: Differential-algebraic Equations: an introduction to the theoretical and numerical treatment of DAEs	Winter terms 2018, 2019, 2020 at OVGU	Script Paperhive
Short course: Introduction to Tensor Based Computing	MathCoRe Compact Course 2018
Lecture: Funktionentheorie (Complex Analysis)	Winter term 2017 at OVGU
Lecture: Differential-algebraic Equations	Summer term 2016 at OVGU
Short course: Model Reduction for Line Time Invariant Systems	Summer 2015 at Shanghai University	Slides

Projects

LPV Approximations for Nonlinear Controller Design

Project Description The computer-aided control system design for nonlinear large-dimensional systems is a tremendous task as it has to cope both with model complexities due to nonlinear dynamics and with computational challenges that are caused by the system’s size.

MaRDI

The one mathematics directed and driven consortium in the NFDI. Our institute has been a co-applicant and we are co-managing (together with WWU Münster) the part on Scientific Computing (Task Area 2 in MaRDI).

Research Training Group: MathCoRe

The research training group MathCoRe at that OVGU provides a both challenging and supporting environment for a small community of graduate students to pursue a PhD in a field that relates to mathematical complexity reduction.

MRI Fingerprinting with Philips

on Improving Fingerprinting in MRI scans

Open Master Thesis

on DMD models for flow problems based on time series using adaptive grids

Inverse Triple Pendulum

An inverted triple pendulum as a test bench and demonstrator for control routines.

Open Master Thesis

on Modelling of the impact of multiple scattering on measurements using luminescent particles

dolfin-navier-scipy

A Python package that provides an interface between scipy and FEniCS in view of solving Navier-Stokes Equations.

Jan Heiland

hinf-lqgbt-nse

Python module for application of (Hinf-)LQG-balanced truncation for low-order controllers for the stabilization of Navier-Stokes equations

Jan Heiland

Open Theses Topics

Open projects available in different fields

Multiple Scattering in TPIV

Bachelor thesis on Modelling of the impact of multiple scattering on scalar measurements using luminescent particles

Events

Workshops&Visits

2023 – Meet me at the following occasions:

Date	Occasion	Location
Dec 13–15	Talk at 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control	Singapore
Nov 23–Dec 29	Our (tutorial) lecture series Advanced Topics in Systems and Control	Open access, on Zoom, hosted by Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, China
Nov 23	Our MathCoRe Workshop Research Data Management in mathematics	Magdeburg
Nov 02–03	NFDI4Cat annual meeting	Frankfurt
Oct 26–27	MaRDI strategic meeting	Kassel
Sep 25–28	DMV Jahrestagung	Ilmenau
Sep 13–15	Conference: Mathematical Optimization for Machine Learning	Berlin
July 24–26	SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications	Philadelphia, USA
June 12	MathCoRe Writing Camp – inspired by the @thesiswhisperer	Magdeburg
June 03	Long Night of Science, Magdeburg	Magdeburg
May 30 – June 02	GAMM annual meeting	Dresden
May 22–26	Workshop and conference on Nonlinear Model Reduction for Control	Blacksburg, USA
May 17	Seminar talk on Reproducibility in Computer-based Experiments	online by the Swiss Reproducibility Network
May 03–05	Annual Colloquium of MathCoRe	Lutherstadt Wittenberg
April 19–22	Representing MaRDI at the NFDI@MPG Workshop	Ringberg
Jan 27 – April 07	Research stay with Prof. Dawei Ding at the USTB Beijing	Beijing, China
Jan 16	Extended tutorial talk for the BIMoS days in January	TU Berlin but online