Current Group Members
PD Dr. Olga Shishkina
Olga Shishkina
studied mathematics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University until 1987. She received her doctorate in scientific computing from the Moscow University for Telecommunication & Informatics (1990), habilitated in fluid mechanics at the TU Ilmenau (2009) and also in mathematics at the University of Göttingen (2014). She worked at the Lomonosov Moscow State University and DLR Göttingen and finally joined the MPIDS (2014), where she leads the Theory of Turbulent Convection group. She is Heisenberg fellow (2014), Fellow of the American Physical Society - APS (2020) and Fellow of the European Mechanics Society - EUROMECH (2022).
Dr. Andrei Teimurazov 
Andrei Teimurazov studied applied mathematics and computer science at the Perm State Technical University in Russia until 2009. In 2013 he received his doctorate form the Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics, Perm, Russia. His PhD research was on the numerical investigation of secondary flows and small-scale turbulence in convection in confined cavities. After completion of PhD, he was working as researcher at the same institute until October 2020. In November 2020 he joined the group at the MPIDS.
Dr.-Ing. Mohammad Emran 
Mohammad Emran studied Computational Sciences in Engineering at Braunschweig University of Technology and received M. Sc. in June 2005. From October 2006 he was a PhD student at the Institute of Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics, Ilmenau University of Technology and was awarded a PhD in turbulent convection in December 2009. After completion of PhD, he was working as a postdoctoral fellow at the same institute until February 2016. Since April 2016, he has been worked in the group at the MPIDS as a postdoc.
Dr. Xuan Zhang 
Xuan Zhang received her master in 2013 and doctorate in 2017 from the University of Michigan. Her PhD research was on the numerical investigation of convection in flows of liquid metals subjected to extremely strong magnetic fields. In September 2017, she joined the group at the MPIDS to work on the project of rotating turbulent thermal convection at large Rayleigh numbers.
Dr. rer. nat. Lukas Zwirner
Lukas Zwirner studied physics at the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg until 2015. In April 2016 he joined the group as a PhD student and focused on numerical investigation of inclined thermal convection in low Prandt-number fluids. He received his doctorate in physics from the University of Göttingen in June 2020 and continues his research on turbulent superstructures as a postdoctoral researcher.
Dr. Philipp Reiter 
Philipp Reiter studied Aerospace Engineering at the Braunschweig University of Technology and graduated as M. Sc. in November 2017. In his study thesis he investigated the laminar to turbulent transition for a reentering space vehicle. In Juli 2018 he joined the group as a PhD student, where he numerically investigates the behavior of horizontal convection flows.
Former Group Members
Dr. Susanne Horn 
For her PhD work Susanne Horn investigated the influence of non-Oberbeck–Boussinesq effects on Rayleigh–Bénard convection in liquids and rotating turbulent thermal convection, in combination with considerable code development. She received her doctorate in physics from the University of Göttingen in 2014 and went on to work as a research associate at the Imperial College London in the Department of Mathematics. She worked as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles from 2016-2019. In July 2019, she became Senior Lecturer at the University of Coventry, UK.
Dr. Sebastian Wagner 
Sebastian Wagner received his doctorate in 2014 from the University of Göttingen. His PhD research was carried out at the DLR in Göttingen and was on the numerical investigation of turbulent thermal convection in different setups. From July 2014 until September 2015 he continued his work within the DFG project on the influence of the wall roughness on heat and mass transport as a postdoctoral researcher. He now works for Audi AG in Ingolstadt.
M. Sc. Minxin He
Minxin He joined the group in November 2015 as a Master student in mathematics of Georg-August University of Göttingen. Her Master thesis was devoted to Rayleigh–Bénard convection in large Prandtl number fluids and on computational grid optimization for direct numerical simulations of turbulent thermal convection.
Guests
