Devastatingly simple, yet hugely effective, the concept of this timely text is to provide a comprehensive overview of computational physics methods and techniques used for materials modeling on different length and time scales. Each chapter first provides an overview of the physical basic principles which are the basis for the numerical and mathematical modeling on the respective length scale. The book includes the micro scale, the meso-scale and the macro scale.

Career to Date:

2003-present Senior scientist in the Department of Numerical Simulation

at the fraunhofer Ernst-Mach Institute (EMI)

Managing project leader of the project "MMM-Tools", (Multiscale Materials Modeling) in cooperation of 9 different Fraunhofer-Institutes in Germany (www.mmm-tools.de)

Advisor of Diploma and PhD students in Physics and Mathematics

2002-2003 Senior Computational Geneticist in the Department of Genetic Epidemiology at Lion Bioscience AG, Heidelberg, Germany

2001-2002 Manager at SAP Headquarters, Walldorf, Germany

2001 PhD in Physics

1998-2001 PhD Student of Prof. Kurt Kremer at the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany

Assistant teacher at the Univ. of Mainz, Germany

1998 Graduation in Physics with Honors at the University of Ulm, Germany

1997-1998 Diploma Student in the Department of Theoretical Physics at the University of Ulm, Germany

1995-1996 Graduate Exchange Student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA, U.S.A.

1993-1995 Assistant Teacher at the University of Ulm, Germany

1993 German "Vordiplom" in physics with honors

1991 Studies in physics

Fundamentals.- Multiscale Computational Materials Science.- Mathematical and Physical Prerequisites.- Fundamentals of Numerical Simulation.- Computational Methods on Multiscales.- Computational Methods on Electronic/Atomistic Scale.- Computational Methods on Atomistic/Microscopic Scale.- Computational Methods on Mesoscopic/Macroscopic Scale.- Perspectives in Multiscale Materials Modeling.