Hermann Mena

Prof. Dr. Hermann Mena is a faculty member at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in the Computational Methods in Systems and Control Theory department. His research spans applied mathematics, numerical analysis, and optimal control, focusing on computationally intensive problems governed by stochastic and deterministic partial differential equations.

• Research Interests: Control theory for PDEs, high-performance computing, environmental modeling, mathematical finance, and crime modeling.
• Projects: Numerical simulation of aerial spray drift (Ecuador-Colombia border case study), optimal control for shallow water equations, and large-scale Lyapunov differential equations.
• Contact: mena@mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de | Office: S1.08 | Phone: +49 391 6110-457