Former Members
Prof. Dr. Baruch Meerson
Currently: Hebrew University of Jerusalem Racah Institute of Physics, Israel
Position at MSS: Humboldt Fellow 2003
- Email: meerson@huji.ac.il
Prof. Dr. Isaac Goldhirsch
Position at MSS: Visiting Professor 2009
Prof. Dr. Jason Gallas
Currently: Instituto de Altos Estudos da Paraíba Joao Pessoa, Brazil
Position at MSS: Visiting Professor 2011/12, 2013, 2017
- Email: jason.gallas@gmail.com
Prof. Dr. Jose Daniel Munoz Castano
Currently: Professor at National University of Colombia, Bogota
Position at MSS: Visiting Professor 2022
- Email: jdmunozc@gmail.com
Prof. Dr. Leopoldo Gómez
Currently: Full Professor at Universidad Nacional del Sur Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Position at MSS: Humboldt Fellow 2020/21, Visiting Professor 2022
- Email: leopoldogg@gmail.com
Prof. Dr. Raúl Cruz Hidalgo
Currently: Universidad de Navarra Física y Matemática Aplicada
Position at MSS: Visiting Scholar
- Email: raulcruz@unav.es
Dr. Vasileios Angelidakis
- Phone number: +49 9131 85-70498
- Email: v.angelidakis@qub.ac.uk
Hongyi Xiao
- Phone number: +49 9131 85-70508
- Email: hongyix@umich.edu
Dr. Dan Serero
Currently: Tel Aviv University
Position at MSS: Postdoc 2010-17
Dr. Diego Fregolente Mendes de Oliveira
Currently: Assistant Research Scientist at Social Data Science Center (SoDa) and College of Information Studies (iSchool) University of Maryland USA
Position at MSS: Postdoc 2011/12
- Email: dfmo@umd.edu
Dr. habil. Alberto Leonardi
Currently: Beamline Scientist Dual Imaging And Diffraction (DIAD - K11) Diamond Light Source Ltd. UKRI - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK and Habilitand at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen, Germany
Position at MSS: Postdoc 2017-2022
Dr. Mahendra Laxman Shinde
Position at MSS: Postdoc 2012/13
Dr. Marina Montaine
Currently: FEM Simulation Expert at Semikron-Danfoss, Nuernberg, Germany
Position at MSS: Postdoc at MSS 2009-12
Dr. rer. nat. Charles Radeke
Currently: Particle Simulation & Algorithmic Advice Chemnitz Germany
Position at MSS: Postdoc 2005-06
Dr. rer. nat. Christian Scholz
Currently: Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf Institute for Theoretical Physics
Position at MSS: Postdoc 2015-16
- Email: christian.scholz@hhu.de
Dr. rer. nat. Eric Josef Ribeiro Parteli
Currently: University Duisburg-Essen
Position at MSS: Postdoc 2011-15
Dr. rer. nat. Frank Rietz
Currently: Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur Leipzig and Frank Rietz IT Dienstleistung
Position at MSS: Postdoc 2015-16
- Email: frank.rietz@htwk-leipzig.de
Dr. rer. nat. habil. Matthias Schröter
Currently: Adjunct Associate Professor Duke Kunshan University China and Hypatia - Science Consulting
Position at MSS: Postdoc 2015-18
Dr. rer. nat. Kai-Uwe Thiessenhusen
Currently: Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung, Berlin
Position at MSS: Postdoc at MSS 2000-2001
Dr. rer. nat. Volker Becker
Currently: Researcher at Gesellschaft zur Förderung angewandter Informatik (GFaI) e.V. Berlin, Germany
Position at MSS: Postdoc MSS 2007-2008
- Email: becker@gfai.de
Dr. rer.nat. Jan Freund
Currently: University Oldenburg Institut für Chemie und Biologie des Meeres
Position at MSS: Postdoc 2000-06
- Email: jan.freund@uni-oldenburg.de
Dr. techn. Daniel Schiochet Nasato
Currently: TU München
Position at MSS: Postdoc 2016-19
- Email: daniel.nasato@tum.de
Dr. Thomas Schwager
Currently: Bruker Nano, Berlin
Position at MSS: Diploma 1998, PhD student 1998-2002, Postdoc 2002-2008
Dr. Volkhard Buchholtz
Currently: Director, Logos-Verlag-Berlin
Position at MSS: Diploma student 1996, PhD student 1996-1999, Postdoc 1999-2001
- Email: v.buchholtz@logos-verlag.de
Dr.-Ing. Mubashir Hussain
Currently: CFD Expert Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG Dortmund, Germany
Position at MSS: Postdoc 2016-19
Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Mühlbauer
Position at MSS: PhD student 2014-20
- Email: sebastian.muehlbauer@fau.de
Dr.-Ing. Severin Strobl
Position at MSS: PhD student 2009-16, Postdoc 2016-17
- Email: severin.strobl@fau.de
Dr.rer.nat. Kuang-Wu (Jeff) Lee
Currently: Senior CFD Consultant at FS Dynamics Germany GmbH Hamburg, Germany
Position at MSS: Postdoc
- Email: kuang-wu.lee@fsdynamics.de
Priv.-Doz. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Igor Goychuk
Currently: Adjunct Associate Professor Universität Augsburg, Germany
Position at MSS: Postdoc 2019-2022
- Email: igoychuk@gmail.com
Prof. Dr. Clara Salueña
Currently: Universitat Rovira i Virgili Tarragona Departament d'Enginyeria Mecànica
Position at MSS: Postdoc 1996-98
- Email: clara.saluena@urv.cat
Prof. Dr. Fengxian Fan
Currently: University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China
Position at MSS: Postdoc (visiting scholar) 2014/15
- Email: fanfengxian@hotmail.com
Prof. Dr. habil. Nikolai Brilliantov
Currently: Full Professor at University of Leicester School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, UK and Full Professor at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology Moscow, Russia
Position at MSS: Postdoc, visiting Professor 2010
- Email: nb144@leicester.ac.uk
Prof. Dr. Marcus Bannerman
Currently: Associate Professor School of Engineering University of Aberdeen, UK
Position at MSS: Postdoc at MSS 2009-11
Prof. Dr. Nadine Aburumman
Currently: Associate Professor in Computer Science Brunel University, London
Position at MSS: Post-Doc 2016-17
Prof. Dr. Prapanch Nair
Currently: Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Position at MSS: Postdoc 2016-19
- Email: prapanch.nair@am.iitd.ac.in
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Praveen Kumar Bommineni
Currently: Professor at National Institute of Technology Warangal Department of Chemical Engineering Warangal, Telangana, India
Position at MSS: Postdoc at MSS 2018-2020
- Email: praveen@nitw.ac.in
Dr. Aswathy Muttathukattil Narayanan
- Phone number: +49 9131 85-70531
- Email: aswathy.muttathukattil@fau.de
Dr. Artem Panchenko
- Phone number: +49 9131 85-70492
- Email: artem.panchenko@fau.de
Dr. Sudeshna Roy
- Phone number: +49 9131 85-70495
- Email: sudeshna.roy@fau.de
Baofang Song
Currently: Tianjin University Applied Mathematics, China
Position at MSS: Postdoc 2014-15
- Email: bsong@ist.ac.at
Ali Shakeri, M.Sc.
Currently: German Aerospace - DLR Oldenburg
Position at MSS: PhD student 2016-20
Christian Schöner, M.Sc.
Position at MSS: PhD student 2011-14
Christopher Bross
Currently: Exasol, Nürnberg
Position at MSS: PhD student 2017-19
- Email: christopher.bross@exasol.com
Dirk Rosenkranz
Currently: SAP
Position at MSS: PhD student 1995-98
- Email: dirk.rosenkranz@sap.com
Dr. Abdulrahman Sadeq Obaid
Position at MSS: PhD student 2009-10
Dr. Junwei Wang
- Email: jw2270@cam.ac.uk
Dr. rer. nat. Jonathan Kollmer
Currently: Uni Duisburg-Essen
Position at MSS: PhD student 2014/15
Dr. rer. nat. Manuel Baur
Currently: Johner-Institut Konstanz
Position at MSS: PhD student 2016-20
- Email: baur.manuel@gmx.de
Dr. rer. nat. Marco Klement
Position at MSS: PhD student 2017-21
- Email: marco.klement@fau.de
Dr. rer. nat. Nikola Topic
Position at MSS: PhD student 2009-15
- Phone number: +49 9131 8620868
- Email: nikola.topic@cbi.uni-erlangen.de
Dr. Volkhard Buchholtz
Currently: Director, Logos-Verlag-Berlin
Position at MSS: Diploma student 1996, PhD student 1996-1999, Postdoc 1999-2001
- Email: v.buchholtz@logos-verlag.de
Dr.-Ing. Lídia Almazán
Currently: Universidad de Deusto Facultad de Ingeniería, Bilbao
Position at MSS: PhD-Student 2012-16
Dr.-Ing. Luis Armando Torres Cisneros
Currently: Sioux Technologies GmbH Erlangen, Germany
Position at MSS: PhD student at MSS 2017-2021
Martin Tupy, M.Sc.
Currently: Brose, Bamberg
Position at MSS: PhD student 2010-14
Prof. Dr. Manuel Díez-Minguito
Currently: Professor at Instituto Interuniversitario del Sistema Tierra en Andalucía Universidad de Granada, Spain
Position at MSS: PhD student 2005
- Email: mdiezm@ugr.es
Prof. Dr. Nina Gunkelmann
Currently: TU Clausthal Professur für Computational Material Sciences/Engineering
Position at MSS: PhD student
Ali Mauricio Velasco Sabogal
Currently: Valeo Komfort- und Fahrassistenzsysteme Kronach-Neuses, Germany
Position at MSS: PhD student 2019-2022
Chrameh Mbah Fru
Currently: Stockholm University
Position at MSS: PhD student 2017-2020
Sarthak Jadhav
- Phone number: +49 9131 85-70504
- Email: sarthak.jadhav@fau.de
Matias Macazaga
Currently: Alma Global
Position at MSS: PhD student 2020
Atharva Pandit, M.Sc.
- Phone number: +49 9131 85-70497
- Email: atharva.pandit@fau.de
Alisia Botthof
Currently: Boston Consulting Group, München
Position at MSS: Hiwi
Antonia Ohlmann, M.Sc.
Currently: Siemens Healthineers, Erlangen
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2017/18
Bernhard Neupert, M.Sc.
Currently: K-UTEC AG Salt Technologies, Sondershausen
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2012
Britt Michelsen
Horst weyer und partner gmbh, Nürnberg
Position at MSS: Bachelor 2012
Dipl.- Phys. Dominik Krengel
Currently: Postdoctoral researcher at Uni Tsukuba Department of Engineering Mechanics and Energy, Japan
Position at MSS: Diploma Student (Physics) 2009
- Email: krengel-dominik-ds@ynu.ac.jp
Dipl.- Phys. Gregor Mückl
Currently: Meta Redmond, USA
Position at MSS: Diploma 2008
Dipl.-Phys. Robert Lieske
Currently: Teamware GmbH, München
Position at MSS: Diploma student 1997
- Email: robert.lieske@arcor.de
Doris Zoller, M.Sc.
Currently: Wella, Steinberg
Position at MSS: Master student 2017
Dr. Andreas Schäfer
Currently: Senior Site Reliability Engineer Google Switzerland GmbH, Zürich
Position at MSS: PhD student 2016-17
- Email: gentryx@gmail.com
Dr. Clara Adam
Currently: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Email: clara.adam@kit.edu
Dr. Dominik Werner
Currently: University of Birmingham
Position at MSS: Masterstudent 2019
- Email: d.wer2@gmx.de
Dr. Fariba Azizmohammadi
Currently: École de Technologie Supérieure Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2014/15
Dr. Markus Forst
Currently: Stanford University
Position at MSS: Bachelor student DAAD grantee 2018
- Email: mforst@stanford.edu
Dr. Michael Schuster
Currently: FAU Department of Data Science
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2015
- Email: michi.schuster@fau.de
Dr. rer. nat. Julian Steinwachs
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2009-11
Dr. rer. nat. Max Flämig
Currently: Nordbayerisches NMR-Zentrum, Universität Bayreuth
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2008
- Email: max.flaemig@uni-bayreuth.de
Dr. Tara Shreve
Currently: Geophysical Institute University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA
Position at MSS: Bachelor student 2015 (DAAD stipend)
- Email: tlshreve@alaska.edu
Dr.rer.nat. Johann Erath
Currently: SKZ - Kunststoff-Zentrum, Würzburg
Position at MSS: Diploma student 2008
- Email: j.erath@skz.de
Fabian Zimber, M.Sc.
Position at MSS: Master student 2012-13
- Phone number: +49 9131 8620868
- Email: fabian.zimber@cbi.uni-erlangen.de
Felix Koopmann
Position at MSS: Hiwi
- Email: felix.koopmann@freenet.de
Felix Verbücheln, M.Sc.
Position at MSS: Master student 2014
- Email: verbuechelnf@googlemail.com
Florian Fischer, M.Sc.
Currently: MTU Aero Engines
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2018
Franka Risch M.Sc.
Currently: PhD student at University Hospital Augsburg Diagnostische und Interventionelle Radiologie
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2015/16
- Email: f.risch1@gmx.de
Hamzeh Pourtavakoli
Currently: Bosch, Stuttgart
Position at MSS: Master student 2015
Hannes Raab, M.Sc.
Currently: Umicore Hanau, Germany
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2016/17
- Email: hannes.raab@spd-sailauf.de
Harish Abubaker
Currently: PHD Student National Institute of Technology, Calicut
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2014/15
- Email: harish050887@gmail.com
Jan Nicklas, M.Sc.
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2018
Jonas Rathke
Currently: D3 Data Services
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2013/14, Master student 2014
- Email: info@d3-data.com
Kerstin Arnold
Position at MSS: Hiwi
Laura Steub, B.Sc.
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2015/16
Leonardo Andres Perez Ramirez
Currently: PhD student at Institut für Baumechanik, Statik und Dynamik Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany
Position at MSS: Master 2019/20
Markus Ott
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2016
Melanie Eßl, M.Sc.
Currently: VTU, Penzberg
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2012/13
Mohammad Farahani, M.Sc.
Currently: bracketlab, Berlin
Position at MSS: Master student 2015
Olivia Szewczykowski, M.Sc.
Currently: Uni Graz, Austria
Position at MSS: Master student 2018/20
Paul Mildenberger, M.Sc.
Position at MSS: Master student 2018
Qing Yu
Scientist at Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt
Position at MSS: Master Student 2024
- Email: qing.yu@thi.de
Raja Atreja
- Email: raja.atreja@fau.de
Shaoyi Xu, M.Sc.
Currently: onsemi, Munich
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2015-16, Master Student 2017
Stefan Wolf, M.Sc.
Position at MSS: Bachelor student Hiwi 2018-21
Sudhanshu Gupta
Currently: Managing Director SNL Innovations Pvt. Ltd Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2009/10
- Email: kapilsudh@gmail.com
Thomas Seeböck, M. Sc.
Currently: ProLeiT, Herzogenaurach
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2013
Veronika Schmidt, M.Sc.
Currently: Wittenstein Cyber motor GmbH
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2016-17
Zhang Bo, M.Sc.
Currently: artCon Gesellschaft für Softwareengineering, Erlangen
Christine von Künsberg-Langenstadt
Currently: student of Psychology Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2017/18
Ricardo Morales Hernandez
Currently: Schuster Elektronik, Herzogenaurach
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2018
Sandrine Koueme Mafague
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2015
Sean D Silva
Currently: Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology, Erlangen
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2015/16
Christina Bauer
Position at MSS: Hiwi
Vishal Boddu
Currently: Huawei, München
Raoudha Boukhris
Position at MSS: Hiwi
Sanjay Chamoli
Currently: Tesla, Berlin, Germany
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2015-16
- Email: sanjay.chamoli@fau.de
Matthew Coleman
Currently: Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
Position at MSS: Master student, DAAD scholar 2016
- Email: mcolema8@alumni.nd.edu
Rachel Derby
Currently: ASML Eindhoven, Netherlands
Position at MSS: Master Student 2016, DAAD intern 2013
Marcel Drya
Position at MSS: Bachelor student
Florian Fuchs
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2015/16
William Funkenbusch
Currently: Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Engineering
Position at MSS: Master Student (DAAD scholar) 2018
Esme Grünewald
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2012/13
Shadin Hassan
Currently: Amdocs Nazareth Area, Israel
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2015
Nicole Illinger
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2020/21
Apostolos Kyrloglou
Currently: PhD Student at Research Training Group MIMENIMA University of Bremen Germany and Leibniz Institute for Materials Engineering - IWT Bremen Germany
Position at MSS: Master student at MSS 2016/19
Sebastian Menapace
Currently: Pall Corporation, Dreieich
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2012/13
Verena Merten
Position at MSS: Bachelor student 2021 and Hiwi 2021
Ganeshkrishna Padmanaban
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2018
Carina Rabe
- Email: carina.rabe@fau.de
Ahmad Saleminajafabadi
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2018
Angel Santarossa
- Phone number: +49 9131 85-70482
- Email: angel.santarossa@fau.de
Moritz Schaffenroth
Currently: Scientist at Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Germany
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2011-13
- Email: m.schaffenroth@oth-aw.de
Jessica Schauer
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2013/14
- Email: jessica-schauer@hotmail.com
Tanja Skeledzic
Currently: Bosch, Bamberg
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2012-13
- Email: tanja_skeledzic@web.de
Cristian Soitu
Currently: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Brooklyn, USA
Position at MSS: Master student 2015 (DAAD stipend)
Alexander Stransky
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2012/13
Emöke Szasz
Currently: VOIS, Budapest
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2010-11
Benjamin Taubmann
Currently: Nutanix, Passau
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2011
Tobias Wilhelm
Position at MSS: Hiwi 2014/15
- Email: wilhelm_tobias@web.de
Omar Zeair
- Email: omar.zuair@gmail.com
Dr. Utkarsh Sinha
Position at MSS: Summer intern 2018
Daniel Treffenstädt
Currently: ZARM Technik AG Zentrum für angewandte Raumfahrttechnologie und Mikrogravitation (ZARM) Am Fallturm 2 28359 Bremen, Germany
Position at MSS: Intern @ MSS 2010
Joanna Gargasz, M.A.
Currently: Technische Universität München Professur für Wirtschaftspädagogik
Position at MSS: Secretary 2009-2015
- Email: assistenz_wipaed@edu.tum.de
Ute Hespelein
Currently: Department Elektrotechnik-Elektronik-Informationstechnik (EEI) Geschäftsstelle Department Elektrotechnik-Elektronik-Informationstechnik Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Position at MSS: Secretary 2015-2017
- Email: ute.hespelein@fau.de