Hello, I am

Paul Hoffrogge

My Resume

My Expertises

Leadership Skills
  • Lead Engineering Teams
    • Practice in team management through guidance of Master's students during their final thesis.
    • Tutor in a High-Performance Computing course.
  • Publish and Present Results
    • Regular talks on international scientific conferences (e.g. Japan).
    • Analysis of scientific data and writing of scientific publications.
  • Encourage Communication and Collaboration
    • Organization of a teambuilding event after COVID pandemic.
    • Software review in GitLab as a part of main developer team.
    • International collaboration with peers on various scientific topics.
    • My Experience
    PhD Candidate

    2017 - Today

    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) / Hochschule Karlsruhe (HKA)

    Karlsruhe, Germany

    Development, implementation and application of a multiphase-field model for surface diffusion in solid-oxide fuel cell anodes.

    Analytics and numerics of partial differential equations.

    Parallelization techniques: MPI, OpenMP and SIMD-intrinsics for finite-difference code. First experience with CUDA C.

    Research Assistant

    Sep 2016 - Feb 2017

    Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology (ILT)

    Aachen, Germany

    Automation (PLC-programming) of a LASER-assisted welding process.

    My Education
    Master of Science

    2014 - 2016

    RWTH Aachen University

    Aachen, Germany

    Thesis: Development of standalone OpenMP parallel C++ postprocessing software for molecular dynamics (MD).

    Bachelor of Science

    2010 - 2014

    RWTH Aachen University

    Aachen, Germany

    Thesis: Simulation studies on recrystallization with a cellular automaton.

    Language Skills
    German
    English
    Czech
    Computer Science Skills
    Math and Physics Modeling
    3D Visualization (Paraview / VisIt)
    C/C++
    Python
    Git/GitLab
    MPI/OpenMP/SIMD CPU Parallel Computing
    CUDA Graphics Card Computing
    Scientific Work

    My Contributions

    My Publications
    Grain-resolved kinetics and rotation during grain growth of nanocrystalline Aluminium by molecular dynamics
    P. W. Hoffrogge and L.A. Barrales-Mora
    Computational Materials Science 128 | 2017
    Multiphase-field model for surface diffusion and attachment kinetics in the grand-potential framework
    P. W. Hoffrogge, A. Mukherjee, E. S. Nani, P. G. Kubendran Amos, F. Wang, D. Schneider, and B. Nestler
    Physical Review E 103 | 2021
    Phase-Field Simulations with the Grand Potential Approach
    M. Seiz, P. Hoffrogge, H. Hierl, A. Reiter, D. Schneider, and B.Nestler
    High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering '20 | 2022
    A phase‐field based model for coupling two‐phase flow with the motion of immersed rigid bodies
    M. Reder, P. W. Hoffrogge, D. Schneider and B. Nestler
    International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 123 | 2022
    High-performance multiphase-field simulations of solid-state phase transformations using Pace3D
    E. Schoof, T. Mittnacht, M. Seiz, P. Hoffrogge, H. Hierl, and B. Nestler
    High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering '21 | 2023
    Triple junction benchmark for multiphase-field and multi-order parameter models
    S. Daubner, P. W. Hoffrogge, M. Minar and B. Nestler
    Computational Materials Science 219 | 2022/2023
    Modeling Anisotropic Transport in Polycrystalline Battery Materials
    S. Daubner, M. Weichel, P. W. Hoffrogge, D. Schneider, and B. Nestler
    Batteries 9 | 2023
    Performance estimation by multiphase-field simulations and transmission-line modeling of nickel coarsening in FIB-SEM reconstructed Ni-YSZ SOFC anodes I: Influence of wetting angle
    P. W. Hoffrogge, D. Schneider, F. Wankmüller, M. Meffert, D. Gerthsen, A. Weber, B. Nestler, and M. Wieler
    Journal of Power Sources 570 | 2023
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