Rupert Klein

Rupert Klein (born November 19, 1959 in Wuppertal ) is Professor of Computational Fluid Mechanics at the Free University of Berlin . In 2003 he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize .

Career

Klein studied mechanical engineering at RWTH Aachen University from 1979 to 1983 . He then worked there as a research assistant in the Faculty of Technical Mechanics . In 1988 he was in Aachen summa cum laude in engineering doctorate ( shock induced ignition and the transition to detonation in narrow gaps ), was in 1988 to 1990 post-graduate student at Princeton University when Andrew Majda , from 1991 research assistant in Aachen, where he Habilitation in 1995. In 1996/97 he was a professor at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal (methods of safety engineering and accident research). From 1997 he was Professor of Scientific Computing and Modeling and Simulation of Global Environmental Systems at the Free University of Berlin in the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. He was also Head of Department ( Data and Computation ) at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research .

He has been visiting scholar at MSRI , the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University , the CNRS Research Institute for Systems Far From Equilibrium in Marseille , Johns Hopkins University (Whiting School of Engineering) and at the ENS in Paris.

In 2003 he received the Leibniz Prize. He is mainly concerned with the asymptotic analysis of multiscale flows, especially in climate modeling. With his working group, he particularly endeavors to create stricter mathematical foundations for the models used in climate prediction, which are based on complex interactions on several scales and include both natural and social systems.

He also dealt with the simulation of combustion processes in motor vehicles, for which he also received several awards.

In 1995 he received the Benningsen-Förder-Preis from North Rhine-Westphalia for novel numerical methods for simulating atmospheric currents. In 2005 he gave the Gauss lecture . In 2013 he gave an MPE2013 Simons Public Lecture for the James Harris Simons Foundation.

He is an extraordinary member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.

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Individual evidence

↑ In his own words, as a teenager he was fascinated by the acoustic waves in his moped exhaust pipe, which was then reflected in the topic of his dissertation. Portrait in Tagesspiegel 2003.

personal data
SURNAME	Small, Rupert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German engineer, professor of numerical fluid mechanics, winner of the Leibniz Prize
DATE OF BIRTH	November 19, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wuppertal

[1] In his own words, as a teenager he was fascinated by the acoustic waves in his moped exhaust pipe, which was then reflected in the topic of his dissertation. Portrait in Tagesspiegel 2003.