Current Group Member

Dr. Evelyn Herberg

Postdoctoral Researcher

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Scientific Computing and Optimization group at the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing of Heidelberg University since September 2022.

Furthermore, I am vice-president of the GAMM Juniors and member of EMYA.

Currently, I am on maternity leave and will return to work part time in November 2025.

You can find my CV here.

Research Interests

My research mainly focuses on

  • Mathematical Machine Learning
  • Optimal Control with Partial Differential Equations
  • Adaptive Algorithms
  • Variational Discretization

Current and Upcoming Projects

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 Marić, Ly Duc Hoang
Funded by: DFG within the Priority Program funding scheme
Part of: Theoretical Foundations of Deep Learning (SPP 2298)

Recent Completed Projects

Latest Publications

  • Bastian Dittrich, Evelyn Herberg, Roland Herzog and Georg Müller
    A DC-reformulation for gradient-$L^0$-constrained problems in function spaces, 2025
    arXiv:2506.11917
    bibtex 
    @ONLINE{DittrichHerbergHerzogMueller:2025:1,
  AUTHOR = {Dittrich, Bastian and Herberg, Evelyn and Herzog, Roland and Müller, Georg},
  DATE = {2025-06},
  EPRINT = {2506.11917},
  EPRINTTYPE = {arXiv},
  TITLE = {A DC-reformulation for gradient-$L^0$-constrained problems in function spaces},
}
  • Hannah Rickmann, Evelyn Herberg and Roland Herzog
    Global convergence of semismooth Newton methods for quadratic problems
    GAMM Archive for Students 7(1), p.14-30, 2025
    doi:10.14464/gammas.v7i1.810
    bibtex 
    @ARTICLE{RickmannHerbergHerzog:2025:1,
  AUTHOR = {Rickmann, Hannah and Herberg, Evelyn and Herzog, Roland},
  PUBLISHER = {Technische Universität Chemnitz},
  DATE = {2025-05},
  DOI = {10.14464/gammas.v7i1.810},
  JOURNALTITLE = {GAMM Archive for Students},
  NUMBER = {1},
  PAGES = {14--30},
  TITLE = {Global convergence of semismooth Newton methods for quadratic problems},
  VOLUME = {7},
}
  • Johannes Wagner, Evelyn Herberg and Roland Herzog
    Experiences with physics-informed neural networks for optimal control problems
    GAMM Archive for Students 7(1), p.31-45, 2025
    doi:10.14464/GAMMAS.V7I1.813
    bibtex 
    @ARTICLE{WagnerHerbergHerzog:2025:1,
  AUTHOR = {Wagner, Johannes and Herberg, Evelyn and Herzog, Roland},
  PUBLISHER = {Technische Universität Chemnitz},
  DATE = {2025-05},
  DOI = {10.14464/GAMMAS.V7I1.813},
  JOURNALTITLE = {GAMM Archive for Students},
  NUMBER = {1},
  PAGES = {31--45},
  TITLE = {Experiences with physics-informed neural networks for optimal control problems},
  VOLUME = {7},
}
  • Irene De Blasi, María Ángeles García-Ferrero and Evelyn Herberg
    Environmental and mental sustainability in academia
    European Mathematical Society Magazine 134, p.50-52, 2024
    doi:10.4171/mag/226
    bibtex 
    @ARTICLE{DeBlasiAngelesGarciaFerreroHerberg:2024:1,
  AUTHOR = {De Blasi, Irene and Ángeles García-Ferrero, María and Herberg, Evelyn},
  PUBLISHER = {European Mathematical Society},
  DATE = {2024-12},
  DOI = {10.4171/mag/226},
  JOURNALTITLE = {European Mathematical Society Magazine},
  PAGES = {50--52},
  TITLE = {Environmental and mental sustainability in academia},
  VOLUME = {134},
}

Recent Teaching

Currently Supervising

  • M.Sc. Thesis of Viktor Stein:
    Genodesic: Trajectory Reconstruction in Single-Cell Sequencing Data using Score Based Methods
    M.Sc. Mathematik, Heidelberg University
    Supervision: Evelyn Herberg, Simon Anders and Roland Herzog

Recent Events Organized