Research areas

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Axel Voigt
Chair for Scientific Computing and Applied Mathmatics

• Multiscale problems in materials and bio-science
• Computational design
• Modelling, analysis and numerics for nonlinear PDEs
• Interplay of topology, geometry and ordering
• Software development for adaptive finite elements

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Wolfgang. V. Walter
Chair for Applied Discrete Mathmatics

•  Interval mathematics
• Computer Arithmetic
• Numerics with automatic result verification
• Programming languages for scientific computing

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Stefan Neukamm
OTT-Chair for Applied Analysis

• Partial differential equations and Calculus of Variations
• (Stochastic) homogenization and multiscale analysis
• Nonlinear elasticity and solid mechanics
• Mathematical materials science

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Markus Schmidtchen
Chair for Applied Mathematics

•  systems of interacting particles, coarse-graining, mean-field limits 
•  non-local non-linear partial differential equations
•  parabolic theory and cross-diffusion systems
•  systems exhibiting gradient flow structures and calculus of variations
•  singular limits and incompressible limits in tissue growth models

Dr. Marco Salvalaglio
Emmy Noether Group Leader 

• continuum and mesoscale material modeling 
• pattern formation and analysis, correlated disorder
• phase-field modeling and simulations
• elasticity and plasticity
• defects and grain boundaries in ordered systems