I am a classical Fluid- and Thermodynamicist with a PhD and Habilitation from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. My research interests are interdisciplinary with a focus on physiological flows.

After completing my studies of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe, I worked with the European Space Agency developing optical measurement methods for microgravity convection flows. From 2002, I worked towards the "Habilitation" (professorial degree, higher doctorate, venia legendi) developing in-silico models for the blood flow in a pumping patient-specific human heart. I was awarded the venia legendi for Fluid Mechanics by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in 2010. After a short interval as acting head of the Institute of Fluid Mechanics at the KIT, I left Germany to help establish the South Korean overseas branch campus and graduate school in Chemical and Bioengineering for the Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg, serving as Campus Vice President. I was also teaching as a guest professor for physics at the Dongseo University, Busan. After two years as expat, working in a mostly administrative role, I decided to return to research and teaching and took up the role of Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, where I is teaching Fluid- and Thermodynamics and Numerical Methods. In 2011, I was invited to be the session introductory speaker at the Japanese-German Frontier of Science Symposium (JaGFoS) of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. I am a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers.

Specialist areas of interest:
My research interests are centred on the numerical and experimental modelling and the prediction of flow behaviour in multi-scale, multi-physics setups and validation and verification. This includes internal and external flows while the main aspects of his research are the interaction between flow and structures in physiological flows, the interaction of turbulence with the main flow, especially in boundary layers, pressure gradient driven separation on blunt bodies and the unsteady dynamics of the separated flow regions like the wake of blunt bodies or separation bubbles in inner flows. I am also interested in thermodynamic solutions to problems of sustainable energy and nuclear waste treatment.