mathematician - researcher - garden enthusiast
I am an applied mathematician currently working as a post doc in the research group Computational Science and Mathematical Methods (CSMM) at KIT
in Karlsruhe.
My research is focused on improving radiation therapy planning by developing more efficient numerical methods and better models for uncertainty quantification. It is important to me to work on socially relevant topics in a sustainable and reproducible way. Below you can find a selection of my publications, talks and software projects.
In june I travelled all the way to Madrid by train for the annual conference of the Particle Therapy Cooperative Group (PTCOG). ... While there, I presented a poster on "Time and memory efficient deterministic proton dose calculations using the dynamical low-rank approximation". The trip was well worth the two days on the train for the interesting discussions and inspiring talks.
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Together with my colleagues Steffen Schotthöfer and Chinmay Patwardhan, I traveled to Lausanne for the "Dynamical low-rank approximation new horizons" workshop end of may. ... On site at the Bernoulli center, we were happy to encounter many more familiar faces and listen to some of the founders of the field talk about new and old work. Overall an extremely well-organized and interesting workshop, thanks Gianluca and Jonas for organizing this!
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Project together with Jonas Kusch, Steffen Schotthöfer, Jannick Wolters and Tianbai Xiao. The KiT-RT (Kinetic Transport Solver for Radiation Therapy) framework is a high-performance open source platform for radiation transport. Its main focus is on radiotherapy planning in cancer treatment. To enable problem-specific method selection, the framework provides different deterministic solver types. This not only facilitates treatment planning, but also provides tools to investigate various research questions in the field of radiative transfer. This goal is supported by an easily extendable code
Project together with Jonas Kusch. The TITUS framework offers open source solvers for time and memory efficient deterministic proton and electron dose calculations in 2D/3D. We solve the continuous slowing down approximation (CSD) to transport equations using the dynamical low rank approximation. See [1] for a detailed description of the methodology and some initial results for 2D electron transport. Functionalities of TITUS include collideduncollided splitting methods, high-order time integration, high-order spatial discretizations and GPU accelerations.
Project developed and maintained within the research group Radiotherapy Optimization at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ). During my time as an associated member of this research group I have contributed to the project, especially to the photon Monte Carlo computations with TOPAS MC. MatRad is an open source software for radiation treatment planning of intensity-modulated photon, proton, and carbon ion therapy.
If you are interested in collaborating or have questions about my work don't hesitate to contact me.