German Aerospace Center (DLR)
"DLR is the Federal Republic of Germany's research centre for aeronautics and space. We conduct research and development activities in the fields of aeronautics, space, energy, transport, security and digitalisation. The DLR Space Administration plans and implements the national space programme on behalf of the federal government."
My work at DLR
Employment period: October 2016 - April 2017
DLR consists of many departments focused on different scientific topics. I worked at the Institue of System Dynamics and Control (SR) at Oberpfaffenhofen, Bavaria, where I wrote my Master Thesis. In this thesis, I created partsival - a GPU-based discrete element method simulation toolkit which is now actively used at the department.
At DLR, I met professional scientists working on various projects in close collaboration with NASA, JAXA and more. Their expertise gave me a deep insight into professional research, experimentation and simulations.
Beyond writing my thesis, I was also given the opportunity to co-author a conference paper based on my thesis work. It was presented at the IMSD 2018 in Lisboa, Portugal. For details and links, please see Master of Science.
