Prof. Dr. Manuel Torrilhon
Since 2010 professor and head of the Research Lab for Applied and Computational Mathematics (ACoM) at RWTH Aachen.
For the 2-year-term 2024-2026 I have been elected Speaker of the Department of Mathematics at RWTH Aachen.
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- Mathematical modeling in continuum physics
- Numerical methods for nonlinear hyperbolic systems
- Kinetic gas theory, Boltzmann equation, rarefied gases and micro-flows
- Magnetohydrodynamics for plasmas
- Multi-scale methods, especially time integrators.
Read more details in our research section.
| 1994--1999 | Diplom-Ingenieur "Engineering Physics (Physikalische Ingenieurwissenschaft)", TU Berlin |
| 2000--2004 | Research Assistant at the Seminar for Applied Mathematics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2004 | PhD in Applied Mathematics, ETH Zurich |
| 2004/05 | Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong |
| 2005/06 | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Princeton University, USA |
| 2006 | EURYI(Pre-ERC) Award of the European Science Foundation |
| 2007--2010 | Research Assistant Professor, Seminar for Applied Mathematics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2009 | Visiting Professor, University of Washington, Seattle |
| since 2010 | Professor and Chair 'Mathematics in Computational Engineering Science', RWTH Aachen |
| since 2019 | Head/Chair of Research Lab 'Applied and Computational Mathematics', RWTH Aachen |
An extensive and generally reliable list of my publications can be found under my ORCid profile.
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