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Prior professional positions

• Professor for mathematics and physics, University of Applied Sciences
  of Eastern Switzerland
• Data Scientist, Geopraevent, Zurich
• Scientist, ABB Corporate Research, Baden
• Principal Investigator, departement of physics, ETH Zurich
• Postdoc, University of California, Irvine, USA

Education

• CAS in Higher Education, University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland
• Dissertation on numerical simulations of galaxy formation, University of Zurich.
• Teaching Diploma for Secondary Education, University of Zurich
• Diploma in theoretical physics, University of Zurich

Affiliations

• Swiss Physical Society
  
• Society for Mathematics at Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences
  

Selected publications

Modeling and Simulation of Magnetron Discharges inside a Vacuum Interrupter as a Method to Analyze the Vacuum Status
K. Hencken, T. Kaufmann, D. Gentsch & T. Delachaux, 2016, XXVIIth Int. Symp. on Discharges and Electrical Insulation in Vacuum, Suzhou

Simulation of start electron distribution for insulation material testing using PXIPD
K. Hencken, T. Kaufmann, S. Pancheshnyi, L. Herrmann & U. Riechert, 2016, IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation

Investigation of Lamb Waves in Solid-Liquid Layers
D. Pape, M. Lenner & T. Kaufmann, 2015, International Ultrasonic Symposium, Taipei

Angular Momentum Transport and Disk Morphology in SPH Simulations of Galaxy Formation
T. Kaufmann, L. Mayer, J. Wadsley, J. Stadel & B. Moore, 2007, MNRAS, 375, 53

Publikations list

Patents list

As project leader

• Innosuisse project: Optimized Side Seamer for Fleximed tube bodies (https://www.aramis.admin.ch/Grunddaten/?ProjectID=41389), with Neopac AG.
• SNSF projects: Particle based CFD simulations on HPC clusters (http://p3.snf.ch/Project-126394, http://p3.snf.ch/Project-121012)
• Making power tools smart using machine learning methods on the tool itself, with Hilti AG.
• Automatic classifier for the food industry, with Winterhalter AG.
• Simulator for the dynamics of cable cars, with Bartholet AG.
• Automatic classifier for avalanche detection in radar data.

As  team member

• Simulation of ultrasonic sensors using FE methods
• Simulation of magnetron discharges using Monte-Carlo simulations