Higher Education

1995 – 2001
Studied mechanical engineering at the universities of Essen, Bochum and Sheffield

Professional Activities

Seit 2012
Curator at the Deutsches Museum, Munich

2001 – 2011
Scientific Associate at the Institute for Propulsion Technology at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne-Porz

• Redesign of the “Energy – Steam” exhibition
• Permanent exhibition „Energy – Motors“, Deutsches Museum (opening 2022)
• 2014 special exhibition “Hard Material. Carbon – The material of the future”
• 2013 special exhibition “Das Gelbe vom Ei." An exhibition about food.
• Research projects in the areas of aerodynamics and aeroacoustics of turbomachinery flows, turbulence modeling and thermal flow-structure coupling
• Numerical simulation of turbomachinery flows, especially turbulence modeling