Philipp Christoph Weder

Philipp Christoph Weder is a Doctoral Assistant and PhD candidate at the Chair of Numerical Modelling and Simulation (MNS) within the Department of Mathematics at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He is supervised by Prof. Annalisa Buffa and specializes in isogeometric analysis, analysis-aware defeaturing, and nonlinear model reduction techniques. His academic background includes a Master’s in Computational Sciences and Engineering and a Bachelor’s in Mathematics from ETH Zürich.

Research Interests

• Isogeometric Analysis
• Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations
• Machine Learning in Scientific Computing
• Wave Propagation Modeling
• Computational Physics
• Fluid Dynamics at Low Reynolds Numbers

Recent Publications and Preprints

• 2025: Galerkin Neural Network-POD for Wave Propagation
• 2025: Neural Galerkin Schemes on Quadratic Manifolds
• 2025: Lumped Parameter Modeling for Congenital Heart Syndromes
• 2022: Stokesian Microswimmer Optimization

Scientific Recognition

• EPFL PhD Excellence Program (2025)

Teaching and Collaboration

• Main Teaching Assistant for Parallel and High-Performance Computing (2025) and Analysis III (2024) at EPFL
• Contributions to international conferences like the Swiss Numerics Day 2025 and the Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart International Conference (2025)
• Active participation in research networks including the SIAM Student Chapter at EPFL