PhD projects

The PhD projects are offered through the Doctoral School (DK) and the Special Research Program (SFB).

• Degenerate Fokker-Planck equations and reversed logarithmic Sobolev inequalities (Anton Arnold, DK)
• Large-time behavior of continuous dissipative systems (Anton Arnold, SFB)


• Model-risk in finance – a transport viewpoint (Mathias Beiglböck, DK)


• Macroscopic models for spintronics (Ansgar Jüngel, DK)
• Large-time behavior of discrete dissipative systems (Ansgar Jüngel, SFB)


• Geometry of generalized transport metrics (Jan Maas, DK)
• Structure preserving variational discretization via optimal transport (Jan Maas, SFB)


• PDE models for transportation networks (Peter Markowich, SFB)


• Nonlinear Schrödinger equations (Norbert Mauser, DK)
• Time dependent (magnetic) Schrödinger equations (Norbert Mauser, SFB)


• Numerical methods for wave propagation (Jens Markus Melenk, DK)
• High order numerical methods for nonlocal operators (Jens Markus Melenk, SFB)


• Model order reduction for frequency response problems (Ilaria Perugia, DK)
• Problem-adapted discretisations of wave equations (Ilaria Perugia, SFB)


• Effective numerical methods for time-dependent micromagnetics (Dirk Praetorius, DK)
• Coupling in computational micromagnetics (Dirk Praetorius, SFB)


• Hypocoercivity and chemical reactions in kinetic transport (Christian Schmeiser, DK)
• Large-time and macroscopic asymptotics in kinetic transport models (Christian Schmeiser, SFB)


• Pressure robust discretization methods for Navier-Stokes equations (Joachim Schöberl, DK)
• Automated discretization in multiphysics (Joachim Schöberl, SFB)


• Elliptic regularization of nonlinear evolution equations (Ulisse Stefanelli, DK)
• Multiphysics effects in solids (Ulisse Stefanelli, SFB)


• Long-time asymptotics for integrable wave equations (Gerald Teschl, DK)