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Research interests

  • Partial differential equations, especially in fluid mechanics and materials science
  • Modelling and analysis of free boundary value problems in fluid mechanics
  • Geometric evolution equations and their approximation by phase field models
  • Operator-theoretical methods for partial differential equations, in particular semigroup theory, pseudodifferential operators and functional calculi
  • Function spaces and regularity of solutions of elliptic and parabolic equations

More precisely: My main field of work is the mathematical analysis of nonlinear partial differential equations, especially in fluid mechanics and materials science. My current focus is on the mathematical investigation of free boundary value problems in fluid mechanics, in particular two-phase flows, and the interplay of modelling and analysis in this area. Different methods of harmonic analysis, functional analysis and (geometric) measure theory are used and, if necessary, further developed. I have also worked on various other topics such as non-linear elastodynamics of thin plates, pseudo-differential operators with non-smooth coefficients and generators of Levy jump processes.


Publications

Preprints

Preprints

  • "Well-posedness and sharp interface limit of a non-isothermal Navier--Stokes/Allen--Cahn model" with Alice Marveggio and Andrea Poiatti, Preprint: https: //arxiv.org/abs/2511.11892, accepted for publication in Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci.
  • "Existence and Nonlocal-to-Local Convergence for Singular, Anisotropic Nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard Equations" with Yutaka Terasawa, Preprint: https: //arxiv.org/abs/2512.01545
  • "Morphoelastic Growth in the Presence of Nutrients at Small Strains" with Julian Blawid and Georg Dolzmann, Preprint: arXiv:2604.01812
  • "Sharp Interface Limit for a Mass-Conserving Navier-Stokes/Allen-Cahn System with Different Viscosities" with Hanifah Mumtaz, Preprint: arXiv:2604.11597

Publications of the last 3 years

Publications

Theses and books

Theses and books

PhD thesis

"Stokes Equations in Asymptotically Flat Domains and the Motion of a Free Surface", Dissertation, TU Darmstadt, Shaker Verlag, Aachen, 2003.

Habilitation thesis

"Diffuse Interface Models for Two-Phase Flows of Viscous, Incompressible Fluids" (external link, opens in a new window)

Books, Book Chapters and Reviews
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