Wolfgang Schröder (engineer)

Wolfgang Schröder (born September 4, 1957 in Neuss ) is director of the Aerodynamic Institute (AIA) at RWTH Aachen University .

Career

Wolfgang Schröder studied mechanical engineering at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) in Aachen from 1975 to 1983 and then did his doctorate at the Aerodynamic Institute in the field of numerical fluid mechanics . In 1981/1982 he worked in the biomedical laboratory, where he was involved in setting up a test bench to investigate the fluid-mechanical influences on artificial heart valves. He worked in the department for theoretical fluid mechanics until 1983 and was then scientific assistant for training and laboratory supervision as well as for the lectures of the institute until 1987.

In 1987, Schröder went to the California Institute of Technology as a fellow of the German Research Foundation . In 1988 he received the Hermann Reissner Prize from the University of Stuttgart together with D. Hänel and R. Schwane and returned to Germany a year later, first working for Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm GmbH and then for Deutsche Aerospace AG European space projects to work. From 1995, Schröder was professor of mathematics, financial mathematics and statistics at the Braunschweig / Wolfenbüttel University of Applied Sciences until he received a chair for fluid dynamics at RWTH Aachen in 1998.

In 2010 Wolfgang Schröder was elected to the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts . In 2013 he received the Carl Friedrich Gauß Medal .

Web links

• Class for engineering and economics - Professor Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Schröder. on awk.nrw.de
• Website of the Aerodynamic Institute at RWTH Aachen University (AIA) at aia.rwth-aachen.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} class for engineering and economics - Professor Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Schröder. on awk.nrw.de, accessed on February 17, 2013.