Current Group Members
Olga Shishkina studied mathematics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University until 1987. She received her doctorate in scientific computing from the Moscow University for Telecommunication & Informatics (1990), habilitated in fluid mechanics at the TU Ilmenau (2009) and also in mathematics at the University of Göttingen (2014). She worked at the Lomonosov Moscow State University and DLR Göttingen and finally joined the MPIDS (2014), where she leads the Theory of Turbulent Convection group. She is Heisenberg fellow (2014), Fellow of the American Physical Society - APS (2020) and Fellow of the European Mechanics Society - EUROMECH (2022).
Dr. Andrei Teimurazov completed his studies in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Perm State Technical University (Russia) in 2009. In 2013, he received his doctorate from the Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics (Perm, Russia). His research focused on the numerical investigations of secondary flows and small-scale turbulence during convection in closed cavities. After completing PhD, he worked as a researcher at the same institute until October 2020. In November 2020, he joined the Theory of Turbulent Convection group at the MPI-DS. His research interests include investigations of turbulent flows, particularly the thermal convection of liquid metals, magnetoconvection, and rotating and internally heated convection.
Dr. Mohammad Emran studied Computational Sciences in Engineering at Braunschweig University of Technology and received an M.Sc. in June 2005. From October 2006, he was a PhD student at the Institute of Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics, Ilmenau University of Technology, and was awarded a PhD in turbulent convection in December 2009. After completing his PhD, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the same institute until February 2016. Since April 2016, he has been a postdoc in the Theory of Turbulent Convection Group at the MPI-DS. His current interest is rotational and centrifugal turbulent convection.
Dr. Jiaxing Song received his BA in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Lanzhou University in 2016 and his PhD in Fluid Mechanics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2021. He worked as a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research from 2021 to 2023 and joined the Theory of Turbulent Convection Group at the MPI-DS in January 2024 as a Humboldt Fellow. His research focuses on numerical investigation of turbulence, thermal convection, geophysical flows and complex flows of viscoelastic fluids, particularly in Rayleigh–Bénard and Taylor–Couette turbulence.
Dr. Zhongzhi Yao studied Thermal Energy and Power Engineering at the East China University of Science and Technology, graduating in 2014. He then pursued a PhD in Ocean Engineering at Zhejiang University, earning his degree in 2020. Following his PhD, he was a lecturer at Hainan Tropical Ocean University until February 2023. In March 2023, he joined the Theory of Turbulent Convection Group at the MPI-DS as a postdoctoral researcher. His recent research focuses on Rayleigh–Bénard convection, centrifugal convection and multiple states in turbulence.
Marvin Kriening studied Theoretical and Environmental Physics at Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg. After completing his master’s studies in 2022, he worked as a developer at Zeiss GmbH from 2023 to 2024. In October 2024, he joined the Theory of Turbulent Convection Group at the MPI-DS as a PhD student. His research focuses on multiple states in turbulence through the theoretical and numerical investigation of rotating turbulent thermal convection and Taylor–Couette flow.