He received his Diploma and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Technology (RWTH) Aachen, Germany. He was a visiting scientist at the University of Technology Eindhoven, The Netherlands and postdoctoral fellow and research associate at the Center for Turbulence Research (CTR) at Stanford University. He joined the faculty of Arizona State University in 2007. His main research areas are numerical methods for tracking interfaces, the simulation and modeling of turbulent multiphase flows during atomization processes, and turbulent premixed and partially premixed combustion.