Lukas Berger
Associate Professor
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolLukas Berger is an Associate Professor and researcher with 13 years of experience at the intersection of combustion science, renewable fuels, and high-performance simulation. He leads work on sustainable propulsion and clean energy technologies, translating fundamental combustion and multiphase flow research into applications for aviation, maritime, and heavy-duty sectors. His expertise spans DNS and LES, physics-informed and data-driven modeling, and scalable HPC implementations developed during roles at RWTH Aachen, MTU Aero Engines, and Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Lukas combines academic leadership with hands-on development of simulation tools and contributed to the open-source buildpacks/pack CLI, improving core build lifecycle mechanics—an unexpected crossover showing his comfort with complex software systems. He holds a Dr.-Ing. in Mechanical Engineering and has completed research stays at Stanford and Princeton, reflecting a global collaborative network. Colleagues rely on him for tackling hard-to-abate decarbonization challenges with rigorous simulation and practical deployment pathways.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting Student Research Collaborator (VSRC) Mechanical Engineering, Visiting Student Research Collaborator (VSRC) Mechanical Engineering at Princeton UniversitySemester abroad Mechanical Engineering, Semester abroad Mechanical Engineering at Seoul National UniversityDr.-Ing. (PhD) Mechanical Engineering, Dr.-Ing. (PhD) Mechanical Engineering at RWTH Aachen UniversityResearch Stay, Research Stay at Stanford University
English, German, Greek, French
Github Skills (7)
go10
buildpack10
api-design9
dockers7
docker7
cd6
cicd6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
buildpacks/pack
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
CLI for building apps using Cloud Native Buildpacks
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Lukas primarily contributed to the internal workings of the `pack` CLI, focusing on the build process and lifecycle management. Their commits involved modifying the build process to support new Platform API versions and refactoring code to align with these changes. Key changes included adding support for combined exporter/cacher phases, modifying the analyzer and restorer phases, and addressing inconsistencies in Platform API version checks. These improvements indicate a focus on maintaining and extending the core functionality of the build tool.
cloud-native-buildpackscncfbuildpackscloud-nativecli
GoogleCloudPlatform/buildpacks
Mar 2020 - Aug 2021
Builders and buildpacks designed to run on Google Cloud's container platforms
Contributions:7 reviews, 203 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 5 months
golanggcpoci-imagebuildpacksv3python
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