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Jens Winkelmann

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Packing your luggage before you go on holidays or taking a jammed packed bus to work are just two occurrences of packing problems in our everyday life. During my PhD at Trinity College Dublin, funded by the Irish Research Council, I focussed on such packing problems by employing optimisation algorithms.

Previously, I pursuit a three-year Bachelor followed by a two-year Master in Physics at TU Dortmund, Germany. Throughout my studies, I gained teaching experience at Trinity College as well as TU Dortmund and worked as a summer student at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany.

I will finish my PhD by September 2019. So after that I am seeking a challenging job that fits my professional skills and personal interests.

Experience

Trinity College Dublin PhD Researcher – 10/2015-now

  • Solving packing problems with optimisation algorithms in C/C++ or Python
  • Web developer for Senior Tutor Service and Foams Group
  • Lab demonstrator and tutor for 6 physics teaching labs and 7 mathematical lectures
  • Supervisor of 4 undergraduate student projects

4 peer-reviewed publications and 9 posters/presentations

TU Dortmund Übungsgruppenleiter (Tutor) – 10/2013-09/2015

Tutored lectures from the Physics Department:
  • Computational physics
  • Theoretical physics I
  • Introduction to condensed matter
  • Mathematical pre-lectures

Experience in public speaking and presentational skills

Forschungszentrum Jülich Summer student – 07/2014-10/2014

IHRS BioSoft Guest Student: Institute of Complex Systems 2
  • Running simulations on Linux-based High Performance Computers
  • Data analysis with Python
  • Data visualisation with Matplotlib/Python

Research project: An active dumbbell in a mesoscopic hydrodynamic simulation

Education

Trinity College Dublin PhD Student – 10/2015-2019

PhD Student: Foams and Complex System Group, School of Physics
Working title: Models of wet foams and other systems of soft particles

TU Dortmund Undergrad and Postgrad student – 2010-2015

Master of Science in Physics: Overall grade 1.2
Master thesis: Hydrodynamic Interactions between Polymers in a Mesoscopic Simulation
Bachelor of Science in Physics: Overall grade 1.4
Bachelor thesis: Mulit-particle collision dynamics for simulating active particles

Don-Bosco Gymnasium Essen Secondary school – 2001-2010

Leaving certificate / Abitur: Overall grade 1.2

Northwest Rankin High School Exchange Year – 09/2007-07/2008

High School Year in Brandon, Mississippi, USA

Awards

IRC Postgraduate Scholarship10/2015-09/2019

Funding scheme: Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship
(215 awardees out of 1200 eligible applications) Project title: Models of wet foams and other systems of soft particles

Poster Prize at Cambridge University, UK 08/09/2017

Soft Matter Poster Prize at the 2nd Edwards Symposium: Challenges and Opportunities in Soft Matter (Poster)

Certificates

IELTS English Test10/03/2016

Overall Band Score: 7.5 / 9.0
CEFR Level: C1

Conferences and Workshops

Conferences

  • WE-Heraeus Symposium: Science on the ISS, Bad Honnef (2018)
  • 3rd Edwards Symposium, Cambridge (2018)
  • Eufoam, Liege (2018)
  • Flowing Matter, Lisbon (2018)
  • 2nd Edwards Symposium, Cambridge (2017)
  • PyCon Ireland, Dublin (2016)
  • Eufoam, Dublin (2016)

Workshops

  • CISM: Mechanics of Liquid and Solid Foams, Udine (2017)
  • Workshop on Jamming and Granular Matter, London (2016)
  • 46th IFF Spring School, Jülich (2015)
  • 45th IFF Spring School, Jülich (2014)