Steffen Maass' Website

Curriculum Vitae

  1. Education
  2. Professional Experience
  3. Awards and Stipends
  4. Competencies

Education

04/21 to date
Technical University Berlin, Germany
M.Sc. in Scientific Computing;
Thesis: Modeling and Simulation of Catalytic Reactions at Electrochemical Double Layers.
09/2018–12/2020
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, United States of America
Ph.D. student in mathematics (not completed due to the Covid-19 pandemic);
M.Sc. with a grade point average (GPA) of 3.94 (German grading system: 1,10).
09/2015–06/2018
Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
B.Sc. in mathematics with minor in physics and computer science;
Thesis: Towards a Topological Classification of Postsingularly Finite Transcendental Entire Maps.
Grade point average (GPA) of 3.98 (German grading system: 1,06).
08/2007–06/2015
High School - Cato Bontjes van Beek-Gymnasium Achim, Germany
Achieved German Abitur with a GPA of 4.00 (German grading system: 1,00).

Professional Experience

08/2023–06/2024
Student Assistant – Weierstraß Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics
Extension of a finite-volume solver for thermodynamically consistent continuum models of electrochemical cells;
Design and implementation of a software packet for the microkinetic modeling of electrocatalytic processes based on ab initio thermodynamic models for the rate constants.
09/2021–09/2022
Student Assistant – Fraunhofer HHI Institute
Optimization of image processing methods for the segmentation of apples;
Training of an autoencoder for dimension reduction;
Implementation of an estimator for a mixture model's parameters used in a cluster analysis.
09/2018–12/2020
Graduent Student Instructor – University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Primary instructor for the courses Calculus I/II.
02/2017–05/2018
Teaching Assistant – Jacobs University Bremen
Teaching Assistant for the courses: Analysis I/II, and Foundations of Linear Algebra.
06/2016–08/2016
Guest Researcher – National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Working on an interpreter for BibTeX-files for the generation of XHTML documents in the applied and computational mathematics division.

Awards and Stipends

09/2018–12/2020
University of Michigan, Department Graduate Fellowship.
02/2016–04/2020
German Academic Scholarship Foundation, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes.
02/2017– 05/2018
Sparkasse Bremen, Sparkasse Scholarship in Mathematics.
05/2015
Jugend forscht and Prof. Johanna Wanka Bundesministerin a.D.
Prize for future-oriented technology awarded for a text classification tool based on a statistical model.

Competencies

Interests
Multi-scale Modeling, Software Engineering, und data-intensive Applications.
Languages
German (native language), English (fluent), Spanish (basic knowledge).
Programming
Julia, Python, Pytorch, C++, MPI, MATLAB, git, LaTeX.
Hobbies
Cycling, Bouldering, Piano.
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