Research Fellows
Mladen Banovic
Early Stage Researcher 12 at Universitt Paderborn
I come from a countryside of east Croatia, the place called Knezevi Vinogradi. Once I attended the first classes of programming and computer science in high school in Beli Manastir (Croatia), I decided to continue my education in that direction. The following step was to enroll at the University of J.J. Strossmayer in Osijek (Croatia), Faculty of Electrical Engineering.
Just before finishing my studies, I applied for IAESTE internship programme and attended the University of Paderborn (UPB) two months in 2012. As an intern, I was working in the group of Prof. Dr. Andrea Walther where I had the opportunity to elevate my programming skills in C/C++ as well as to learn and improve my knowledge of mathematics. I really enjoyed living and working in Germany, also this was my first experience of living abroad.
At the end of 2012, I finished a Master degree in Computer Engineering. Six months later I started working in the IT company "NTH Group" in Osijek, as a Java web-developer. I had worked there for two years on challenging projects and learned a lot of interesting technologies used in web-development.
Since July 2015 I have taken a great opportunity to work again in the same group at UPB, as a Marie Curie Research Fellow involved in the IODA project and I am very grateful for that. I find the field of applied mathematics very attractive and challenging, which is the most important thing to me when it comes to work.
The Innovative Training Network IODA gave me a great work and living experience and I consider it as one of the best things than happened in my life. Besides working at UPB, I had taken a number of secondments to Open Cascade (France), Queen Mary University of London (UK), Rolls-Royce Deutschland (Germany) and the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (Belgium). I find this mobility concept brilliant as it provided me international and interdisciplinary working environment. Also I appreciate very much the opportunities to collaborate with project partners, attend workshops and conferences world-wide, and to learn from rich training programme implemented within the IODA network.
The IODA project finished, however my work at UPB has been extended (from other funding) to write the PhD thesis and finalize algorithmic differentiation of the Rolls-Royce in-house airfoil design tool.
My hobbies are related to music. I have played a string instrument “tamburica” for 15 years in an orchestra. Also, I like electronic music and DJ-ing.