Frank Hettlich

PD Dr. Frank Hettlich is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Mathematics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. He is affiliated with the Institute for Applied and Numerical Mathematics and leads research in inverse problems, numerical methods for partial differential equations, and wave scattering phenomena.

• Current Faculty of Mathematics member at KIT
• Active in teaching, including courses like Optimization Theory and Higher Mathematics for engineering disciplines

His research focuses on:

• Theory and numerical approximation of acoustic, electromagnetic, and elastic wave scattering
• Domain derivatives for PDEs
• Integral equation methods
• Weak formulations for numerical analysis

He has contributed to iterative regularization schemes for nonlinear ill-posed problems and obstacle reconstruction techniques in inverse problems.

Scientific Awards:

• AM Teaching Prize 2020 (Mechanical Engineering)