Ole Burghardt

Dr. Ole Burghardt is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair for Scientific Computing, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany, with office located at Paul-Ehrlich-Straße 34, Building 36, Room 36-414. He contributes to the SciComp research group under Prof. Dr. Nicolas R. Gauger.

His research specializes in multi-disciplinary design optimization using the open-source SU2 framework, with core expertise in discrete adjoint methods for sensitivity analysis in fluid dynamics and multiphysics systems. Current projects include porting SU2 solvers to STX high-performance hardware through the STXDemo initiative, developing multiphysics discrete adjoint capabilities, conjugate heat transfer integration, and automatic differentiation components. Upcoming work focuses on computational graph debugging tools for SU2 developers and discrete adjoint extensions for multi-stage turbomachinery.

As an active SU2 contributor, Dr. Burghardt bridges theoretical methods with practical implementation in scientific computing, emphasizing open-source collaboration and high-fidelity simulation for engineering optimization challenges.