Prof. Dr. Hannes Meinlschmidt
Email • PhD in mathematics, TU Darmstadt
intersection of (optimal) control and optimization with the analysis of PDEs
Assistant Professor | Senior Scientist
Room 03.330 | FAU DCN-AvH, Chair for Dynamics, Control, Machine Learning and Numerics – Alexander von Humboldt Professorship
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät. Department Mathematik
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I am an assistant professor (W1) at the Chair for Dynamics, Control, Machine Learning and Numerics at FAU, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg since March 2021.
I am working on optimal control of partial differential equations and applied analysis in general.
I obtained both my Diploma (Oct 2011) and PhD (March 2017) in mathematics at TU Darmstadt, Germany; my PhD supervisor was Stefan Ulbrich.
I then moved to RICAM in Linz, Austria, for a PostDoc position in the “Optimization and Optimal Control” group of Karl Kunisch, in September 2017.
• PhD Thesis: “Analysis and Optimal Control of Quasilinear Parabolic Evolution Equations on Rough Domains” (March 2017)
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Research interests
My research interests concern problems at the intersection of (optimal) control and optimization with the analysis of PDEs.
This includes
• regularization aspects on the optimization side
• regularity theory for elliptic and parabolic evolution equations on the analysis side
The research questions I consider are motivated mostly by
• optimal control problems subject to strongly nonlinear (coupled systems of) time- dependent PDEs,
• real-world applications with nonsmooth data
Projects
• Renormalized Solutions in der Optimalsteuerung von Evolutionsgleichungen (2025 – 2028)
• CIN-PDE: Control, inversion and numerics for Partial Differential Equations (2022 – 2025)
Awards
• Preis für hervorragende wissenschaftliche Leistungen (2018) TU Darmstadt
Award for outstanding scientific achievements for the best PhD dissertation at the Department of Mathematics at TU Darmstadt in 2017
Academy
• Lecture notes: A primer on functional Analytic methods for PDEs
• WS 22/23: Lecture „Optimization with PDEs”
• WS 22/23: Seminar on „Interpolation theory and function spaces”
• SS 21/22: Partielle Differentialgleichungen I
• WS 21/22: Partielle Differentialgleichungen II
• WS 20/21: A Primer on Functional Analytic Methods for PDE. Seminar “Evolution Equations”
News / Initiatives
Poster: Parabolic Problems Arising in Real-World Applications
Authors: Hannes Meinlschmidt
Date: March, 2021
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Publications
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