As part of the Willcox Research Group at the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, I combine different uncertainty quantification methods in a framework for digital twins. I am particularly interested in inverse problems, multi-fidelity approximations, and optimal experimental design. With my background in reduced basis methods branching off to non-intrusive operator inference, I closely follow the developments of model order reduction methods and physics-based machine learning. I am always interested to collaborate with other researchers and explore challenges and ideas across disciplines.

Biography

After finishing my master’s degree in mathematics at RWTH Aachen University, supervised by Prof. Martin Grepl, I started as a doctoral fellow in Prof. Karen Veroy’s research group at the Aachen Institute for Advanced Studies in Computational Engineering Science (AICES) and joined the International Research Training Group “Modern Inverse Problems” (IRTG MIP) as soon as it opened. In my research project, I developed reduced basis techniques for the efficient approximation of variational data assimilation methods under flexible model configurations. As part of my training at IRTG MIP, I was elected inaugural student representative of the IRTG, and treaserer and later vice president of the SIAM student chapter. Moreover, I advised master students, and visited the Oden Institute as part of Prof. Tan Bui-Thanh’s group for 6 months. In 2021 I joined the Willcox Research Group as a Research Fellow to work with Prof. Karen Willcox on operator inference and digital twins. In December 2022, I was awarded my PhD title with distinction (Dr.rer.nat., “mit Auszeichnung”) by the Department of Mathematics at RWTH Aachen University, and was promoted to Postdoctoral Fellow. Throughout my time at the Oden Institute, I have held the Peter O’Donnell Jr. Postdoc Fellowship, and was elected inaugural postdoc chair of the “Graduate and Postdoctoral Women of the Oden Institute” group.

Awards

For the two years studying for my master’s degree, I received the Dean’s List Award for the top 5% of students in the Mathematics Master program at RWTH Aachen University. In 2019 I won the student poster competition at USNCCM15 in the category “Mathematical Methods”. In 2020, I was a finalist for the BGCE “Best student paper” prize.  In 2022, I was selected as “Rising Star” in Computational Science and Engineering. In 2023, I was awarded the Borscher’s Badge for my PhD thesis. In 2024, I won first place in the SIAM UQ24 “Power of Diversity” poster competition.