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Dieter Bothe is Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Head of the research area Mathematical Modeling and Analysis at the Center of Smart Interfaces at Technical University of Darmstadt. He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Paderborn, where he graduated in 1993 and obtained his habilitation in the area of Nonlinear Evolutions and Reaction-Diffusion Systems in 2000. From 1999 to 2005 he was assistant / associate professor at the Institute for Chemical Engineering at the University of Paderborn, where he was head of the group „Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Multiphase Flows“. From 2005 to 2009 he held the Chair for Mathematics/CCES at the department of mathematics, RWTH Aachen University, from 2006 he was Co-Director of the Center for Computational Engineering Science there until he accepted a research professorship at the Center of Smart Interfaces in 2009. Dieter Bothe is an appointed member of the ProcessNet technical committees „Multiphase Flow” and “Computational Fluid Dynamics„. He is on the editorial advisory board of the “International Journal of Multiphase Flow” and associated editor of the international journal “Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications”. Dieter Bothe is also coordinator of the Priority Programme SPP 1506 “Transport processes at fluid interfaces„ of the German Science Foundation (DFG). His research concerns nonlinear evolution equations, reaction-diffusion systems and transport processes in two phase flows, where he combines modeling with mathematical analysis and numerical simulations to analyze, describe and understand more deeply processes in the Natural and Engineering Sciences.

• List of Publications
• Habilitationsschrift

Curriculum Vitae

Born 28.06.1963 in Paderborn

University Education

• 1982 – 1988 Studies in Mathematics and Physics at the University of Paderborn
• 1993 Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in Mathematics, University of Paderborn
• 2000 Habilitation, Mathematics, University of Paderborn

Professional Experience

• 1988 – 1993 Research associate, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Paderborn (with K. Deimling)
• 1993 – 1999 Postdoctoral research fellow, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Paderborn
• 2000 – 2005 Assistant Professor (C1) / Associate Professor (C2), Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Paderborn
• 2005 – 2009 Chair for Mathematics at the Center for Computational Engineering Science (CCES), RWTH Aachen
• 2009 – Research Professorship “Mathematical Modeling and Analysis” at the Center of Smart Interfaces (CSI), TU Darmstadt

Professional Activities

Number of PhD theses supervised: 6 completed, 11 to be completed

Main Research Fields

Mathematical Modeling and Analysis

• Nonlinear Evolution Systems

• Reaction-Diffusion Sytems

• Two-phase Flows

• Multicomponent Fluids

• Non-Newtonian Fluid Flow

Computational Engineering

• Flow Mixing in Microreactors

• Hydrodynamics of Drops and Bubbles

• Influence of Soluble Surfactants

• Mass Transfer in Gas-Liquid Flows

• Thermocapillary / Evaporative Flows

Activities in Scientific Organizations

• 1993 – Member of the German Mathematical Society (DMV)
• 2003 – Assigned member of the ProcessNet committee Multiphase Flows
• 2004 – Member of DECHEMA
• 2006 – 2009 Co-Director of the Center for Computational Engineering Science (CCES)
• 2007 – 2013 Assigned member of the ProcessNet committee Mixing Processes
• 2010 – Assigned member of the ProcessNet committee Computational Fluid Dynamics
• 2007 – 2009 Founding Member of the Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA)
• 2009 – Principal Investigator of the International Research Training Group 1529 “Mathematical Fluid Dynamics” (TU Darmstadt, Tokyo University, Waseda University)
• 2010 – Coordinator of the DFG Priority Programme 1506, “Transport Processes at Fluidic Interfaces”
• 2010 – Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal of Multiphase Flows
• 2012 – Funding Committee of the DFG Priority Programme 1740, “Reactive Bubbly Flows”
• 2012 – Editorial Board, Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications

Conference and Workshop Organization

• 2007 Local Organizing Committee, International Congress on Multiphase Flows (ICMF07), Leipzig
• 2010 Internationale Konferenz “Evolution Equations”, Schmitten
• 2011 Section “Interfacial Flows” at the GAMM Annual Conference, Graz
• 2011 1st International Symposium on Multiscale Multiphase Process Engineering (MMPE), Kanazawa, Japan
• 2012 GAMM Annual Conference (LOC) und Sektion “Interfacial Flows”, Darmstadt
• 2012 7th International OpenFOAM Workshop, Darmstadt

Awards, Honors and Offers

• 1993 Doctorate degree with “summa cum laude", University of Paderborn
• 2002 Research Award 2002 of the University of Paderborn
• 2005 Offer of Professorship at the University of Magdeburg (W2 Nonlinear Analysis)