Dirk Hartmann

Dirk Hartmann is a Cooperation Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Technical University Darmstadt (since 2025). He concurrently holds leadership roles at Siemens Digital Industries Software, including Head of Simcenter Technology Innovation (since 2023), Technical Fellow (since 2022), and former Senior Principal Scientist (2018–2021). His career includes roles as Program Manager (2013–2018) and Consultant/Researcher (2009–2013) at Siemens Technology. From 2007–2009, he led a junior research group at the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg.

Research Focus: Hartmann specializes in Digital Twins, with expertise spanning Computer Aided Engineering, Scientific Machine Learning, Realtime Simulation, and Human-Digital Twin Interaction through AR/VR technologies. His work emphasizes interdisciplinary applications of modeling, simulation, and optimization across engineering and computational domains.

Affiliations & Roles:

• Cooperation Professor, TU Darmstadt
• Siemens Leadership Roles: Simcenter Head, Technical Fellow
• Former Siemens Technology Roles: Senior Principal Scientist, Program Manager

Education & Early Career: Holds a Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) in Natural Sciences, with academic roots at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg (2007–2009).