Current Projects


Machine Learning and Optimal Experimental Design for Thermodynamic Property Modeling
Start: 2025-03-01
End: 2028-02-29
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog, Markus Richter
Staff: Viktor Martinek, Ophelia Frotscher
Funded by: DFG within the Priority Program funding scheme
Part of: Machine Learning in Chemical Engineering (SPP 2331)

Operator Learning for Optimal Control: Approximation and Statistical Theory
Start: 2025-01-01
End: 2027-12-31
Principal Investigators: Evelyn Herberg, Jakob Zech, Sven Wang
Staff: Mario Maric
Funded by: DFG within the Priority Program funding scheme
Part of: Theoretical Foundations of Deep Learning (SPP 2298)

Surrogate-Based Prediction of Cycle Fatigue Strength of Rotating Shafts and Process Optimization Using Flexible Kriging Models (dPRO2)
Start: 2024-10-01
End: 2027-09-30
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog
Collaborators: Thomas Lampke, Lisa Winter, Andreas Schubert
Staff: Hannah Rickmann, Sahib Kaur, Pascale Neubauer
Funded by: DFG within the Package Proposal funding scheme
Part of: Data-Driven Process-Property Models to Predict Cycle Fatigue Strength (PAK 1105)

Phase Field Methods, Parameter Identification and Process Optimization (PoPULAR)
Start: 2023-07-01
End: 2026-06-30
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog, Martin Stoll, Jan-Frederik Pietschmann
Staff: Pelin Çiloğlu, Carmen Tretmans
Funded by: DFG within the Research Unit funding scheme
Part of: Printed & Stable Organic Photovoltaics from Non-Fullerene Acceptors (FOR 5387)

Multilevel Architectures and Algorithms in Deep Learning
Start: 2023-01-01
End: 2025-12-31
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog, Anton Schiela
Staff: Leonie Kreis, Frederik Köhne
Funded by: DFG within the Priority Program funding scheme
Part of: Theoretical Foundations of Deep Learning (SPP 2298)

Optimal Control and Optimal Experimental Design for MRI and Photoacoustic Imaging (MBAI)
Start: 2022-04-01
End: 2028-03-31
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog, Robert Scheichl
Staff: Karina Koval
Funded by: Carl Zeiss Foundation within the CZS Breakthroughs funding scheme
Part of: Model-Based AI: Physical Models and Deep Learning for Imaging and Cancer Treatment

Completed Projects


Optimization and Visualization Support Sytem for Cardiac Arrhythmia Management
Start: 2022-03-01
End: 2024-12-31
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog, Ann-Kathrin Rahm
Collaborators: Christine Mages, Katharina Seidensaal
Staff: Reyhaneh Majidi
Funded by: Klaus Tschira Foundation
Part of: Informatics4Life (I4L)

Machine Learning and Optimal Experimental Design for Thermodynamic Property Modeling
Start: 2022-02-01
End: 2025-02-28
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog, Markus Richter
Staff: Viktor Martinek, Ophelia Frotscher
Funded by: DFG within the Priority Program funding scheme
Part of: Machine Learning in Chemical Engineering (SPP 2331)

A Calculus for Non-Smooth Shape Optimization with Applications to Geometric Inverse Problems
Start: 2021-06-15
End: 2024-07-31
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog, Stephan Schmidt
Staff: Manuel Weiß, Lukas Baumgärtner
Funded by: DFG within the Priority Program funding scheme
Part of: Non-Smooth and Complementarity-based Distributed Parameter Systems (SPP 1962)

Simulation Based Optimization of the Time-Dependent Pulse Power for Laser Beam Welding of Aluminum Alloys in Order to Avoid Hot Cracks (OptiPuls)
Start: 2020-05-01
End: 2022-04-30
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog, Jean-Pierre Bergmann
Staff: Dmytro Strelnikov, Marc Seibold
Funded by: BMWi within the Deutscher Verband für Schweißen und verwandte Verfahren e.V. (DVS) funding scheme

High Entropy Alloys as Coating Materials for Surface Protection (HEA-SurfProtect)
Start: 2020-01-01
End: 2022-12-31
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog, Thomas Lampke, Guntram Wagner, Andreas Schubert, Thomas Seyller
Staff: Felix Ospald
Funded by: European Social Fund within the Junior Research Group funding scheme
Part of: High Entropy Alloys as Coating Materials for Surface Protection

Model Predictive Parameter and State Estimation and Optimal Sensor Placement
Start: 2019-07-01
End: 2023-06-30
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog, Martin Stoll
Staff: Andreas Naumann, Alexandra Bünger
Funded by: DFG within the Collaborative Research Center funding scheme
Part of: Thermo-Energetic Design of Machine Tools (SFB Transregio 96)

A Calculus for Non-Smooth Shape Optimization with Applications to Geometric Inverse Problems
Start: 2017-01-01
End: 2019-12-31
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog, Stephan Schmidt
Staff: José Vidal Núñez, Marc Herrmann
Funded by: DFG within the Priority Program funding scheme
Part of: Non-Smooth and Complementarity-based Distributed Parameter Systems (SPP 1962)

Analysis and Solution Methods for Bilevel Optimal Control Problems
Start: 2016-10-01
End: 2019-09-30
Principal Investigators: Gerd Wachsmuth,Stephan Dempe
Staff: Felix Harder, Patrick Mehlitz
Funded by: DFG within the Priority Program funding scheme
Part of: Non-Smooth and Complementarity-based Distributed Parameter Systems (SPP 1962)

Optimal Control of Dissipative Solids: Viscosity Limits and Non-Smooth Algorithms
Start: 2016-10-01
End: 2020-05-31
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog, Dorothee Knees, Christian Meyer
Staff: Ailyn Stötzner, Masoumeh Hashemi, Stephanie Thomas, Michael Sievers
Funded by: DFG within the Priority Program funding scheme
Part of: Non-Smooth and Complementarity-based Distributed Parameter Systems (SPP 1962)

Model Predictive Parameter and State Estimation and Optimal Sensor Placement
Start: 2015-07-01
End: 2019-06-30
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog
Staff: Ilka Riedel
Funded by: DFG within the Collaborative Research Center funding scheme
Part of: Thermo-Energetic Design of Machine Tools (SFB Transregio 96)

Impulse Control Problems and Adaptive Numerical Solution of Quasi-Variational Inequalities in Markovian Factor Models
Start: 2015-04-01
End: 2018-05-31
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog, Thorsten Schmidt
Staff: Jan Blechschmidt, Yves Läßig
Funded by: DFG within the Individual Research Grant funding scheme

Bivalent and Multi-Criteria Optimization of Coupled Simulations of Manufacturing and Loading of Hybrid Structures (MERGE)
Start: 2012-11-01
End: 2019-09-30
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog
Collaborators: Arnd Meyer, Oliver Ernst, Jörn Ihlemann, Lothar Kroll, Gudula Rünger
Staff: Felix Ospald,
Funded by: DFG within the Cluster of Excellence funding scheme
Part of: Merge Technologies for Multifunctional Lightweight Structures (EXC 1075)

Preconditioned SQP Solvers for Nonlinear Optimization Problems with PDEs
Start: 2012-10-01
End: 2015-09-30
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog
Staff: Susann Mach
Funded by: DFG within the Individual Research Grant funding scheme

Correction Algorithms and High Dimensional Characteristic Diagrams
Start: 2011-07-01
End: 2015-06-30
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog,Ulrich Priber
Staff: Ilka Riedel, Christian Naumann
Funded by: DFG within the Collaborative Research Center funding scheme
Part of: Thermo-Energetic Design of Machine Tools (SFB Transregio 96)

Optimal Control in Elastoplasticity - Analysis, Algorithms, Numerical Analysis and Applications
Start: 2009-10-01
End: 2012-09-30
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog, Christian Meyer
Staff: Gerd Wachsmuth
Funded by: DFG within the Priority Program funding scheme
Part of: Optimization with Partial Differential Equations (SPP 1253)

Optimal Control of Stefan Problems with Constraints
Start: 2007-08-20
End: 2010-12-19
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog, Karl Kunisch
Staff: Martin Bernauer
Funded by: FWF within the Individual Research Grant funding scheme

Second Order Sufficient Conditions and the SQP Method for Optimal Control Problems with Mixed Constraints
Start: 2005-09-01
End: 2008-08-31
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog, Arnd Rösch
Staff: Nataliya Metla
Funded by: FWF within the Individual Research Grant funding scheme