He received the degrees Diplom-Ingenieur and Doktor-Ingenieur in mechanical engineering from the University of Technology, Munich, in Germany. Prior to coming to Utah State University, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and at the Center of Computational Science at the University of Kentucky. His cooperation with the cluster group in Electrical and Computer Engineering lead to an Honorable Mention in the category Price/Performance of the Gordon Bell Prize for its work "High-Cost CFD on a Low-Cost Cluster". His research interests are unsteady fluid dynamics simulations, distributed multiphysics simulation, and developing low-cost PC clusters engineered towards his applications.