Third-Party Funded Projects
Running Projects
Simulation Based Optimization of the Time-Dependent Pulse Power for Laser Beam Welding of Aluminum Alloys in Order to Avoid Hot Cracks

Project IGF 20.826B (DVS I2.3005) in Forschungsvereinigung Schweißen und verwandte Verfahren e.V. of the Deutschen Verbandes für Schweißen und verwandte Verfahren e.V.
Period: 01.05.2020 - 30.04.2022
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog and Jean-Pierre Bergmann
Project Staff: Dmytro Strelnikov
High Entropy Alloys as Coating Materials for Surface Protection

Project in an ESF junior research group HEA-SurfProtect
Period: 01.01.2020 - 31.12.2022
Principal Investigators: Thomas Lindner
Project Staff: Felix Ospald
A Calculus for Non-Smooth Shape Optimization with Applications to Geometric Inverse Problems

DFG-Project HE 6077/10-2 in the priority program 1962 Non-smooth and Complementarity-based Distributed Parameter Systems: Simulation and Hierarchical Optimization
Period: 01.02.2020 - 31.01.2023
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog and Stephan Schmidt
Project Staff: NN
Model Predictive Parameter and State Estimation and Optimal Sensor Placement

DFG-Project INST 269/628-1 in the collaborative research center 96 Thermo-Energetic Design of Machine Tools
Period: 01.07.2019 - 30.06.2023
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog, Martin Stoll
Project Staff: Andreas Naumann, Alexandra Bünger
Completed Projects
Optimal Control of Dissipative Solids: Viscosity Limits and Non-Smooth Algorithms

DFG-Project HE 6077/8-1 in the priority program 1962 Non-smooth and Complementarity-based Distributed Parameter Systems: Simulation and Hierarchical Optimization
Period: 01.10.2016 - 31.05.2020
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog, Dorothee Knees and Christian Meyer
Project Staff: Ailyn Stötzner, Masoumeh Hashemi
A Calculus for Non-Smooth Shape Optimization with Applications to Geometric Inverse Problems

DFG-Project HE 6077/10-1 in the priority program 1962 Non-smooth and Complementarity-based Distributed Parameter Systems: Simulation and Hierarchical Optimization
Period: 01.01.2017 - 31.12.2019
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog and Stephan Schmidt
Project Staff: José Vidal Núñez
Analysis and solution methods for bilevel optimal control problems

DFG-Project im Schwerpunktprogramm 1962 Non-smooth and Complementarity-based Distributed Parameter Systems: Simulation and Hierarchical Optimization
Period: 01.10.2016 - 30.09.2019 (since April 2018 at Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg (Cottbus))
Principal Investigators: Stephan Dempe and Gerd Wachsmuth
Project Staff: Felix Harder
Model Predictive Parameter and State Estimation and Optimal Sensor Placement

DFG-Project INST 269/628-1 in the collaborative research center 96 Thermo-Energetic Design of Machine Tools
Period: 01.07.2015 - 30.06.2019
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog
Project Staff: Ilka Riedel
Impulse Control Problems and Adaptive Numerical Solution of Quasi-Variational Inequalities in Markovian Factor Models

DFG-Project HE 6077/7-1
Period: 01.04.2015 - 31.05.2018
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog and Thorsten Schmidt
Project Staff: Jan Blechschmidt
Bivalent and Multi-Criteria Optimization of Coupled Simulations of Manufacturing and Loading of Hybrid Structures

Project within Cluster of Excellence MERGE (EXC 1075), subproject F.2
Period: 01.11.2012 - 30.09.2019
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog (Head of Project Domain F: Jörn Ihlemann)
Project Staff: Felix Ospald
Preconditioned SQP Solvers for Nonlinear Optimization Problems with PDEs

DFG-Project HE 6077/4-1
Period: 01.10.2012 - 30.09.2015
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog
Project Staff: Susann Mach
Correction Algorithms and High Dimensional Characteristic Diagrams

DFG-Project INST 269/456-1 in the collaborative research center 96 Thermo-Energetic Design of Machine Tools
Period: 01.07.2011 - 30.06.2015
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog and Ulrich Priber (Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology)
Project Staff: Ilka Riedel
Optimal Control in Elastoplasticity - Analysis, Algorithms, Numerical Analysis and Applications

DFG-Project GR 2099/2-1in the priority program 1253 Optimization with partial differential equations
Period: 01.10.2009 - 30.09.2012
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog and Christian Meyer
Project Staff: Gerd Wachsmuth, Frank Schmidt
Optimal Control of Stefan Problems with Constraints

FWF-Project P19918-N14 (Project homepage at RICAM)
Period: 20.08.2007 - 19.12.2010
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog and Karl Kunisch
Project Staff: Martin Bernauer
Second Order Sufficient Conditions and the SQP Method for Optimal Control Problems with Mixed Constraints

FWF-Project P18056-N12 (Project homepage at RICAM)
Period: 01.09.2005 - 31.08.2008
Principal Investigators: Roland Herzog and Arnd Rösch
Project Staff: Nataliya Metla