Katharina Benkert - CV

Education

10/1997 - 09/1998	Study of Computer Science at the Distance University of Hagen, Germany
10/1998 - 07/2004	Study of Applied Mathematics at the University of Chemnitz, Germany
	* Internships at KUKA Roboter GmbH, Augsburg, Germany and LATelec, Toulouse, France
	* Guest student at the Research Center Jülich, 2002
	* Thesis: Efficient Finite Element approximation for complex geometries by material functions
	Graduation with honors
since 10/2004	Research assistant at the High Performance Computing Center in Stuttgart
2008	Baden-Württemberg-Zertifikat für Hochschuldidaktik
since 08/2009	Team-leader SCCS

09/1997 - 09/1998	Au pair in Dayton, Ohio, USA
09/2000 - 07/2001	Erasmus student at the University of Toulouse le Mirail, France
	Licence in Mathématiques Appliquées et Sciences Sociales
10/2002 - 12/2002	IAESTE internship at Unicamp, Campinas, Brasil
04/2007 - 06/2007	Research trip to University of Houston, Texas, USA
03/2009 - 05/2009	Research trip to University of Houston, Texas, USA (DAAD scholarship)

languages: English (fluent), French (fluent), Italian (basic), Spanish (basic), Portugese (basic)