CV

Experience

• 2026 – Present: Patent Attorney Trainee, PFIZ/GAUSS Patentanwälte, Stuttgart, Germany
  • Drafting patent applications and responses to office actions.
  • Conducting patent searches and prior-art analyses.
  • Focus areas: mechanical engineering, software (computer-implemented inventions, CII), physics.
• 2023 – 2026: Group Leader and Lecturer, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  • Project lead for numerical simulation of large deformations.
  • Principal lecturer for Numerical Geomechanics in both German and English; consistently top-rated by students.
  • Supervised 5+ Master’s theses and mentored 10+ research assistants.
  • Reviewer for academic journals on numerical methods in geotechnics.
  • Developed high-performance software for large-deformation simulations; delivered a 95% accurate monopile prediction model validated against field data from RWE AG.
  • Automated simulation workflows using Python, reducing pre/post-processing time by up to 80%.
  • Skills: Technical writing, research, project leadership.
• 2017 – 2023: Research Associate, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  • Prepared technical project reports in German and English.
  • Contributed to 3 projects with 2 universities and 5 industry partners (RWE, innogy, GuD Consult, itap, BioConsult).
  • Developed open-source Python/MATLAB tools for teaching advanced constitutive modelling.
  • Managed software in the soil mechanics laboratory.
  • Ran finite element simulations in commercial tools to establish benchmark results for model validation.
  • Delivered tutorials for 3 Master’s-level courses.
• 2015 – 2016: Student Research Assistant, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  • Implemented a novel multi-body contact algorithm in an internal codebase.
  • Wrote subroutines for coupled physical behaviour (e.g., fluid-structure interaction).
  • Created technical documentation for in-house simulation software.
• 2012 – 2014: Assistant Manager, Technical Sales and Marketing, Sundram Fasteners Limited, India
  • Managed a $50M portfolio; served export clients in 5 countries.
  • Conducted feasibility studies and cost analyses for prototypes.
  • Main point of contact for international clients and prototype deliveries.
  • Skills: Stakeholder management, client relations, cross-functional collaboration.

Education

• PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in Numerical Geotechnics, University of Stuttgart, Germany, 2017 – 2022
  • Dissertation: Convected Particle Domain Interpolation Method for Large Deformation Geotechnical Problems
  • Supervisor: Prof. Christian Moormann
  • Result: magna cum laude (Very Good)
• M.Sc. in Computational Mechanics, University of Stuttgart, Germany, 2014 – 2016
  • Thesis: Improvement of the Frictional Contact Algorithm with Application to Monopile Installation Simulations
  • Supervisor: Prof. Christian Moormann
  • Final Grade: 1.8
• B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering, SRM University, India, 2008 – 2012
  • Focus: computational mechanics, thermodynamics, and fundamentals of finite element analysis
  • Final Grade: 1.3
  • Performance-based Scholarship Award: Top 10 students of the cohort

Patent Expertise

• Technical research
• Prior-art analysis
• Technical documentation

Competencies

• Analytical thinking
• Presentation skills
• Complexity reduction
• Detail-oriented work
• Interdisciplinary collaboration

Technical Skills

• Programming: Fortran (~12 yrs), MATLAB (~12 yrs), Python (~8 yrs), C++ (~3 yrs), Julia (~3 yrs)
• Simulation software: Abaqus, ANSYS, OpenFOAM, Plaxis
• Scripting: Bash, Shell, Visual Basic
• Data analysis: NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib
• DevOps: Docker, Git, GitHub
• Other tools: LaTeX, HPC clusters, Visual Studio, Microsoft Office, Linux, MacOS

Languages

• Native: English, Tamil
• Fluent: German, Hindi, Telugu