David Wiedemann pursued his undergraduate studies in mathematics at the University of Augsburg, where he earned his bachelor’s degree. He continued his academic journey at the Technical University of Munich, participating in the TopMath elite study programme, where he achieved a master’s degree.
Driven by an interest in understanding natural phenomena, David’s early research focused on transport processes in complex media. He developed a homogenisation framework to model processes in porous media with evolving microstructures, leading to new Darcy-type laws for fluid flow and models for reactive transport. He received his PhD from the University of Augsburg in 2023 for this work.
Additionally, David contributed to the DFG SPP 2256 project on Variational Methods for Predicting Complex Phenomena in Engineering Structures and Materials, where he investigated relaxation techniques. He characterised polyconvexity for isotropic functions using diagonal matrices, enabling optimal dimension reduction for a broad class of physically relevant energy densities.
David is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the applied analysis group led by Prof. Dr. Ben Schweizer at the Technical University of Dortmund. His ongoing work examines the impact of microstructures, expanding his focus beyond physico-chemical mechanisms, microfluidics, and solid mechanics to include electromagnetic wave phenomena.