Katrin Ellermann

Katrin Ellermann (born November 1, 1972 in Hamburg ) is a German engineering scientist and university professor of mechanics at TU Graz .

Life

Katrin Ellermann was born in Hamburg in 1972, grew up in Kröppelshagen-Fahrendorf and went to school at the Wentorf grammar school. Ellermann's interest in mechanics developed during her school days , as one of her teachers kept talking about his previous job as a mechanical engineer .

Youth research

Ellermann's scientific career began in 1992 when he took part in the Jugend forscht competition . Together with two schoolmates, she submitted the project The End of the Three Groschen Opera? a. In doing so, they cracked the code on the microchip of phone cards in such a way that the card value could be changed at will (see phreaking ). After winning the state competition in Schleswig-Holstein , the then Deutsche Bundespost Telekom appealed against participation in the national competition. They were only allowed to take part in the national competition by restricting the long written version to unloading the card and without describing the cracking itself. Despite this restriction, they achieved second place in the technical field and also received a highly endowed special prize from Telekom.

In 2010 and 2011 Katrin Ellermann supported Jugend forscht as a juror in the field of technology.

Studies and professorship

Between 1992 and 1998 she studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg , where she graduated from Cornell University in New York as a Master of Engineering in 1995/96 .

Then Ellermann worked until 2003 as a research assistant at the Institute for Mechanics and Marine Technology at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, where she received her doctorate in 2002 as Dr.-Ing. with the work of branch investigations of marine systems . For this dissertation she got in November 2003 on a proposal from the Joachim-Jungius Society of Sciences a grant from the Dr. Helmut and Hannelore Greve Foundation for Science and Culture .

From 2003 onwards she worked for two years as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Mechanical Engineering .

When Ellermann was accepted into the highly endowed five-year Emmy Noether program of the German Research Foundation (DFG), she returned to Germany in August 2005 and became a junior research group leader at the Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Ship Theory at the TU Hamburg-Harburg. During a panel discussion as part of the Donner Bank's DONNERr'sTALK series of events on March 27, 2008, she made her acceptance into the Emmy Noether program primarily responsible for her return to Hamburg . During her time in Hamburg she worked as a reviewer for the Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE (A & B) .

In 2008, Katrin Ellermann completed her habilitation at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg in the subject of mechanics with For the analysis of randomly excited vibrations in mechanical systems , ISBN 9783832286637 . In the same year, after 1999, she spent her second research stay at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro .

After completing the Emmy Noether program, she took over a professorship for mechanics at TU Graz on June 1, 2010 . At Power-Gen Europe 2014 she was a speaker on the topic An Approach to Determine the Optimum Balance Between Wind Turbine Rotor Size & Generator Power Rating to Minimize Cost of Energy .

She is a member of the Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics .

research

In Hamburg, Ellermann researched the non-linear dynamics of offshore systems in stochastic seas. She investigated how floating cranes or wind turbines , for example, have to be built in order to be able to withstand ocean currents , swell and wind . Ellermann also examined how waves can damage underwater robots. A basin with a wave generator served as a test facility . The research funded by the DFG included computer simulations in order to be able to calculate flows more precisely.

Ellermann is currently doing research on vibration and vibration analysis at the Institute of Mechanics at Graz University of Technology ; Her local research environment includes areas such as multi-body dynamics , fluid-structure coupling , mechatronics , kinematics and robotics .

Web links

• Institute of Mechanics at TU Graz
• Katrin Ellermann in the AcademiaNet database of renowned women scientists

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} New female professors. (PDF) Katrin Ellermann. In: TU Graz people (issue 34). Verlag der Technische Universität Graz, February 2010, p. 17 , accessed on November 17, 2013 . 
2. ↑ The end of the three groschen opera? Stiftung Jugend forscht e. V., accessed November 17, 2013 . 
3. ^ ^{A b} Marianne Mayer: Woman power in mechanics. (MP3) In: uni.webradio. TU Graz, November 12, 2012, accessed on November 17, 2013 (duration: 3:13). 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Jugend forscht as a prelude to a successful academic career. Stiftung Jugend forscht e. V., April 2008, accessed November 20, 2013 . 
5. ↑ Jugend forscht (45th national competition). (PDF; 3.6 MB) Special jurors. Stiftung Jugend forscht e. V., p. 30 , accessed on November 17, 2013 . 
6. ↑ Jugend forscht (46th national competition). (PDF; 6.5 MB) Special jurors. Stiftung Jugend forscht e. V., p. 81 , accessed November 20, 2013 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Prof. Dr. Katrin Ellermann. In: AcademiaNet. Spektrum der Wissenschaft Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, accessed on November 20, 2013 . 
8. ↑ Appreciation and Acknowledgment. Award of the Dr. Helmut and Hannelore Greve Foundation for Science and Culture . Joachim Jungius Society of Sciences, November 21, 2003, accessed November 20, 2013 . 
9. ↑ Key data of the DONNER'sTALK / Talk in the evening series of events. (PDF; 52 kB) (No longer available online.) Donner Bank, p. 7 , archived from the original on January 24, 2013 ; Retrieved November 20, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Reviewers For JZUS-A & B Before 2009. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE, p. 41 , archived from the original on November 25, 2011 ; accessed on November 20, 2013 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ Session Speaker: Katrin Ellermann. (No longer available online.) Power-Gen Europe, archived from the original on December 15, 2013 ; Retrieved December 15, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ E-201 Ocean Engineering Seminar, SP 2013. (PDF; 220 kB) (No longer available online.) University of California, Berkeley, archived from the original on January 21, 2015 ; accessed on November 20, 2013 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ↑ Katja Wilke: mechanical engineer. Once a tinkerer, now a team worker In: career. No. 06, 2007, ISSN  1436-1469 , p. 68.