Werner Schaffenberger

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Date of birth: 08/19/1969
Place of birth: Kapfenberg
Nationality: Austria
Marital status: Married

Key Archievements

• Development of a new simplified Lattice-Boltzmann scheme for MHD
• First MHD-simulation of solar convection including chromospheric layers

Research Fields

• Solar physics: Theory and numerical simulation of solar and stellar convective flows
• Plasma physics: Kinetic theory of plasma instabilities, magnetohydrodynamics

IT-Skills

• Operating systems: DOS/Windows, Linux/UNIX
• Programming languages: FORTRAN 77/90/95, C/C++, PASCAL
• Software: MS Office, IDL, Mathematica, LATEX Supercomputing: Vectorizing, parallelizing with OpenMP and MPI

Research Activities

• 2007 - present: Post doc position at Michigan State University, East Lansing. Research field: Implementation of magnetohydrodynamic characteristic boundary conditions for the Stagger-code.
• 2005: Kiepenheuer-Institute for Solar Physics, Freiburg. Research field: MHD-Upgrade of the radiative hydrodynamics code CO5BOLD.
• 2003 - 2005: Schrödinger scholarship at the Astrophysical Institute, Potsdam. Research field: Numerical MHD, developement of MHD-Riemann solvers.
• 2001 - 2002: Institute for Geophysics, Astrophysics and Meteorology of the Karl-Franzens-University Graz. Research field: Simulation of Rayleigh-Benard-convection with magnetic field with the Lattice-Boltzmann-method.
• 1999 - 2000: Postdoc-position at the Institute for Space Science of Austrian Academy of Sciences. Research field: Physic of the magnetosphere, especially plasma instabilities in the Earth's magnetosheath.

Teaching

• 2009: Substitute lecturer and senior tutor for a course on relativistic visualization, Lyman Briggs College at Michigan State University (with G. Kortemeyer)
• 2008: Senior tutor for Introductory Physics, Lyman Briggs College at Michigan State University (with G. Kortemeyer)
• 2006: Lecturer at the Karl-Franzens University Graz
• 2006: Tutor at the University of Technology Graz

Studies

• 1989 - 1999: Study of astronomy at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Austria
• 1999: Doctor degree with honor Doctor thesis: Application of cellular automata on convection models in astrophysics
• 1996: Master degree with honor Master thesis: On the influence of a supernova shock front on the stability of the solar system Education
• 1984 - 1989 High school for electrical engineering, Austria Matura (High school diploma) with honor
• 1980 - 1984 Secondary school, Thörl, Austria 1975 - 1980 Primary school, Thörl, Austria

Hobbies

• Reading books
• Programming (C/C++, Assembler)