Biography

Dr Wolfgang Polifke studied Physics at the Universität Regensburg, the University of Colorado in Boulder and the City College of the City University of New York. After completion of his Ph.D. thesis on “Aspects of Helicity in Turbulent Flows” in 1990, he joined ABB’s Corporate Research Center in Switzerland, where he worked predominantly on fundamental aspects of gas turbine combustion technology.

Since 1999 he has been professor for Thermofluiddynamics at the Technische Universität München. Research activities past and present include analysis and modelling of thermo-acoustic combustion instabilities; aero-acoustics; data-based reduced order models, in particular supervised learning; development and validation of models of turbulent reacting flows; population balances in multi-phase flows; adsorptive hydrogen storage; reduction of detailed chemical kinetic mechanisms.