Michael G. Selzer

Michael Selzer received his Diplom (Informatik) from Hochschule Karlsruhe in 2005. He completed his Master’s in Science (Informatik) from Hochschule Karlsruhe in 2007. In the year 2014 he finished his PhD in the department of mechanical engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany working in the research group of Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Britta Nestler (IAM-CMS), where he also has an additional role as Department Manager and further developing the phase-field code Pace3D. He has vastly experienced in numeric optimization, parallel computing, pre/post- processing algorithms and visualization techniques. His current research interests are centered on grain coarsening, sintering process, fluid flow and solid mechanical esspecially combined with topology optimization.