People

Head of Institute

- Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Andreas Paul Fröba
- Email: andreas.p.froeba@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85 – 29789

Senior Scientist (Academic Staff Member)
and Group Leader

- Dr.-Ing. Michael Rausch
- Email: michael.rausch@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85 – 25898

Administration

- Maritta Lechler
- Team assistance/Secretary
- Email: maritta.lechler@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85 – 25877

Group Leader

- Dr.-Ing. Tobias Klein
- Email: tobias.klein@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85 – 25843

Doctoral Candidates

- Baraá Wassefe Nabil Al-Khateeb
- Email: baraa.wn.al-khateeb@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85 – 25807

- Hubert Patryk Blabus
- Email: hubert.blabus@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85 – 25848

- Pranay Kumar Chittem
- Email: pranay.k.chittem@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85 – 25842

- Sukrati Gupta
- Email: sukrati.gupta@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85 – 25848

- Muhammad Saad Idrees
- Email: saad.idrees@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85 – 25806

- Chathura Jayan Kankanamge Hewa Kankanamge
- Email: chathura.hewa@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85 – 25809

- Julius Kühl
- Email: julius.jk.kuehl@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85 – 25806

- Pedro Santiago Martinez Gonzalez
- Email: pedro.martinez.gonzalez@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85 – 25889

- Patrick Schmidt
- Email: patrick.schmidt@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85 – 26452

- Yongzhen Sun
- Email: syz.sun@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85 – 25889

- Ziwen Zhai
- Email: ziwen.zhai@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85 – 25890

Kisal Senadeera, kisal.senadeera@fau.de, +49 9131 85 – 25807

Pratham Prakash (starting from March 2026)

Technical Staff

- Ute Klöpzig
- Email: ute.kloepzig@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85 – 25845

Guest Scientists

Prof. Dr. Shengshan Bi
Dr. Junwei Cui
Prof. Dr. Ioannis G. Economou
Dr. Cédric Giraudet
Georgios Kasapis, Ph.D.
Dr. Manuel Matos Lopes
Shaomin Yan, M. Eng.
Dr. Taotao Zhan
Dr. Guanjia Zhao

Students currently active at AOT-TP

Geethika Baddila
Richie Djomo
Andrea Diaz Zosel
Bibek Lekhnath Gyawali
Katharina Hahn
Varun Jadav
Youngsic Kim (from 01.03.2026)
Marcel Mester
Artem Mezhnev
Luca Schönauer
Ragni Trivedi

Former members of AOT-TP

Dr.-Ing. Alaa Al-Badri
Dr. Shane Cadogan
Dr.-Ing. Thomas Gebauer
Dr. Cédric Giraudet
Dr.-Ing. Andreas Heller
Dr.-Ing. Ubaya Higgoda
Peter Janofsky
Dr.-Ing. Manuel Kerscher
Dr.-Ing. Matthias Knoll
Dr. Johannes Knorr
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Thomas M. Koller
Dr.-Ing. Tanja Kugler
Dr.-Ing. Frances D. Lenahan
Dr.-Ing. Maximilian Piszko
Neda Sanchouli
Dr.-Ing. Wenchang Wu
Dr. Pouria Zangi

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