Profession
January 1984 - April 1987
Research Assistant, Alexandria University, Faculty of Engineering (Department Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture)
January 1992 - April 1994
Research Assistant, Institute of Ship and Ocean Technology, Technical University of Berlin
April 1994 - January 1995
Research Assistant, Potsdam Model Basin (SVA)
February 1995 - December 2002
Head of Department "Numerical Simulation", Potsdam Model Basin (SVA)
January 2003 - July 2007
Professor at Institute of Ship Technology and Transport Systems, Duisburg-Essen University
August 2003 - July 2007
Managing Director of Institute of Ship Technology and Transport Systems, Duisburg-Essen University
August 2007 - Present
Head of Institute of Fluid Dynamics and Ship Theory, Hamburg University of Technology
Awards and Honours
2019
Silver commemorative medal of the German Society for Maritime Technology (STG) for the excellent contributions to the German shipbuilding community
2023
2023 AVT Panel Excellence Award of the NATO Science and Technology Organization for the extraordinary scientific contribution rendered to the Applied Vehicle Technology Panel
2024
2024 AVT Excellence Award of the NATO Science and Technology Organization for longstanding service and extraordinary scientific contribution rendered to the Applied Technology Panel
Professional Affiliations
1990 - Present
German Society for Maritime Technology STG (Germany)
1991 - Present
Association of Engineers VDI (Germany)
1995 - Present
American Society of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineers (SNAME)
October 1997 - November 1999
Resistance and Flow Committee, International Towing Tank Conference (ITTC)
May 2000 - December 2007
Committee "Propulsion" of the German Navy
2005 - 2017
Chairman of the Hydrodynamics Committee of STG
2008 - 2019
Deputy Chairman of the Maritime Research Centre at Hamburg University of Technology
2013 - 2017
Member of the Council of the Managing Board of German Society for Maritime Technology
2010 - Present
Member of the German Navy scientific team in the NATO Applied Vehicle Technology Panel (AVT)
2016 - Present
Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Friendship System GmbH
2016 - 2023
Member of the Supervisory Board of the Potsdam Model Basin
October 2019 - December 2021
Chairman of the Maritime Research Centre of Hamburg University of Technology
2022 - Present
Member of the Maritime Research Centre of Hamburg University of Technology
2024 - Present
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Potsdam Model Basin
Fields of Research
Ship Propulsion
Ship Manoeuvring
Ship Motion in Waves
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Cavitation
Maritime Renewable Energy
Underwater Acoustics
Peer Reviewer
Editorial board member of the Ship Technology Research
Editorial board member of Journal of Ship Research
More than 25 International Conferences.
Publications
Authored, co-authored more than 250 papers in international conferences and journals.