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Endowed Chair of the City of Ingolstadt

One of Professor Ray's main areas of work is multi-scale modeling. She cooperates with geoscientists to find out more about the composition and structure of soils. “The microstructure of the soil has a direct influence on its macroscopic behavior. One focus of my work is therefore to build bridges between these two scales,” explains Professor Ray. As the composition of soils is not static, but constantly changing, this places particular demands on multi-scale modeling of issues in this area. Soil plays an important role in questions of energy, sustainability, climate and the environment - as a reservoir for water and carbon and as a habitat for microorganisms. For example, multiscale modeling provides the basis for simulating the absorption of water and nutrients by roots as well as ideal living conditions for microorganisms - also as a basis of knowledge for combating hunger.

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10-02-2026

MAS-TOB at the BMFTR Status Meeting “Mathematics for Innovation”

On October 1–2, 2026, the status meeting “Mathematics for Innovation” took place at the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) in Bonn. Among the projects represented was “MAS-TOB: Multiscale Analysis and Structural Optimization of Patient-Specific Therapeutic Orthoses and Bandages,” which started earlier this year and is funded for a period of three years.

The project team from the three participating institutions (Fraunhofer ITWM Kaiserslautern, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, and KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt) was represented by Anna Simon and Prof. Dr. Carolin Kreisbeck from the Chair of Analysis at KU, as well as Dr. Julia Orlik from Fraunhofer ITWM. Anna Simon presented MAS-TOB as part of the short presentation sessions. The subsequent poster session provided further opportunities for stimulating discussions and scientific exchange.

A central goal of MAS-TOB is to develop a methodology and, building on this, a software solution in the form of a digital twin that can predict how different knitted fabrics need to be printed to achieve targeted local stiffening and restrictions of movement. The project team works closely with the industry partner Sporlastic in this context.

A distinctive feature of the collaborative project is its interdisciplinary approach, bringing together different areas of mathematics and connecting them closely with applications:

from modeling and analysis through optimization, numerical methods, and simulation to their implementation in patient-specific products.

MIDS seminar

Mathematical Institute for Machine Learning and Data Science

The Chair of Geomatics and Geomathematics is part of the Mathematical Institute for Machine Learning and Data Science, MIDS.
Learn more about MIDS here.