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.