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Dr. Marita Thomas
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| Since April 2017 | Head of the Weierstrass group Bulk-Interface Processes at the Weierstrass Institute. |
| Winter term 19/20 | Substitute professorship for Analysis at the University of Kassel. |
| Jan. 2010-March 2017 | Member of the research group Partial Differential Equations at the Weierstrass Institute. |
| Since March 2016 | representative of the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (GAMM) at Weierstrass Institute. |
| Jan. 13-Dec. 15 | Member of the GAMM Juniors; elected speaker of the GAMM Juniors in 2015. |
| Sept. 11-Sept. 12 | Fellowship in the program Leibniz-Mentoring of the Leibniz Association. |
| Jan. 07-Dec. 09 | PhD student in the RTG 1128 at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Alexander Mielke. |
| Apr. 06-Dec. 06 | Research fellow at the
Institute
of Applied Analysis and Numerical
Simulation, University of Stuttgart. Project C5 Stress singularites in heterogeneous materials, SFB 404 Multifield Problems in Continuum Mechanics. Advisor: Prof. Dr. A.-M. Sändig. |
| Oct. 01-Apr. 06 | Study of Mathematics (Diplom, application: chemistry) at the
University of Stuttgart. Thesis advisor: Prof. Dr. A.-M. Sändig. |
Scientific interests
- Material modeling
- Damage and fracture mechanics
- Coupling of optoelectronics with thermomechanics,
- Variational methods, Gamma-convergence, functions of bounded variation
Current Projects
- Modeling and analysis of suspension flows (01/2019-12/2020): project AA2-4 in cooperation with D. Peschka, B. Wagner (both WIAS), V. Mehrmann (TU Berlin), M. Rosenau (GFZ Potsdam) within the Berlin Mathematics Research Center MATH+.
- Dynamics of rock dehydration on multiple scales (07/18-06/22): project C09 in cooperation with T. John (Petrology, FU Berlin) within CRC 1114 Scaling Cascades in Complex Systems
- Reliability of efficient approximation schemes for material discontinuities described by functions of bounded variation (07/2018-06/2021): project in cooperation with S. Bartels (U Freiburg) within the DFG Priority Programme SPP 1748 "Reliable Simulation Techniques in Solid Mechanics. Development of Non-standard Discretisation Methods, Mechanical and Mathematical Analysis."
Former Projects
- Modeling, analysis, and optimization of optoelectronic semiconductor devices driven by experimental data (06/2017-12/2018): MATHEON project OT8 funded by ECMath - Einstein Center for Mathematics Berlin.
- Finite element approximation of functions of bounded variation and application to models of damage, fracture, and plasticity (10/2014-06/2018): project in cooperation with S. Bartels (U Freiburg) within the DFG Priority Programme SPP 1748 "Reliable Simulation Techniques in Solid Mechanics. Development of Non-standard Discretisation Methods, Mechanical and Mathematical Analysis."
- Mathematical Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization of Strained Germanium-Microbridges (06/2014-05/2017): MATHEON project OT1 funded by ECMath - Einstein Center for Mathematics Berlin, in cooperation with M. Hintermüller (HU Berlin), Th. Surowiec (HU Berlin) and A. Mielke.
Organization of Schools, Workshops & Minisymposia
Teaching
- Course on Functional Analysis and course on Nonlinear Functional Analysis, WiSe19/20, University of Kassel.
- Coupling of rate-independent and rate-dependent systems , Summer School on Multi-Rate Processes, Slow-Fast Systems and Hysteresis, Politecnico di Torino.
- BMS-course Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations WiSe17/18, HU-Berlin.
- BMS-course Partial Differential Equations SoSe17, HU-Berlin.
- Seminar Evolutionary Gamma-Convergence in Continuum Mechanics, WiSe16/17, HU-Berlin.
- Winter school on Gamma-convergence and homogenization in continuum mechanics, Oct. 31-Nov. 4, 2016, VIASM Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics , Hanoi, Vietnam; course on Gamma-convergence methods for statics and evolution
- BMS-course Evolution Problems in Continuum Mechanics SoSe16, HU-Berlin.
- Vorlesung Höhere Analysis II -- Partielle Differentialgleichungen SoSe12, HU-Berlin.
- COMMAS Summer School, Oct. 8-12, 2012: Mathematical Methods in Continuum Mechanics of Solids, University of Stuttgart.
Last modified: 2019-12-09 by Marita Thomas