Dirk Franke
Research Coordinator
Berlin Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDirk Franke is a seasoned Research Coordinator at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) with 18 years focused on grid, high-performance, and cloud computing strategy. He combines deep academic rigor—a PhD in Mathematics from Freie Universität Berlin and earlier studies in electrical engineering at KIT—with hands-on expertise in mathematical modelling, AI and big data. Dirk has steered complex HPC research programs from Berlin, translating theoretical methods into scalable computing solutions for scientific domains. His long tenure at DLR reflects both program leadership and sustained technical contribution rather than short-term project hopping. Colleagues know him for bridging advanced algorithms with practical infrastructure decisions, and for keeping a researcher’s curiosity about foundational models and numerical methods at the heart of applied engineering work.
18 years of coding experience
Promotion, Mathematics, Promotion, Mathematics at Freie Universität BerlinElektrotechnik, Elektrotechnik at Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Github Skills (28)
simulation10
fluid10
prediction-model10
strings10
hierarchical10
power-systems10
electrical-engineering10
control-systems10
modelica10
chemical-engineering9
snl-applications9
stream9
control-theory9
jekyll7
newsletter6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dzimmer/PlanarMechanics
Jan 2014 - Dec 2021
A free Modelica library for planar mechanical multi-body systems
Contributions:40 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 7 years 11 months
mechanicalbodysimulationmodelica-librarymodelica
dzimmer/ZimmersModelicaTutorial
Sep 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 6 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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