Werdegang:
since 2021       Dean of Department of Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
2013 - 2018     Member of Strategy Board, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
2010 - 2012     Dean of Department of Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
1998 - 2024     Director of Institute of Aerodynamics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
1994 - 1998     Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Braunschweig University of Applied Sciences, Braunschweig, Germany
1989 - 1994     German Aerospace AG, Head of Aerothermodynamics, Space Infrastructure, Munich, Germany
1987 - 1989     Postdoc, Applied Mathematics Department, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
1987                 Dr.-Ing. degree in Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
1983                 Dipl.-Ing. degree in Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Forschungsschwerpunkte:
computational fluid dynamics, computational aeroacoustics, active flow control, vortical flows, turbulence, multiphase flows, supersonic and hypersonic flows, biomedical flows, reacting flows, measurement techniques

Mitgliedschaften und Funktionen:

• Membre Titulaire de l'Académie de l'Air et de l'Espace, France
• Member and Chairman of the Fluid Mechanics Expert Committee 404 of the German Research Foundation (DFG) (01/2013 – 04/2020)
• Editor-in-Chief: Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design
• Co-Editor-in-Chief: European Journal of Mechanics – B/Fluids
• Member of the Editorial Boards: International Journal of Aeroacoustics, Computational Fluid Dynamics JOURNAL
• International Advisory Board, Journal of Thermophysics and Aeromechanics

Auszeichnungen und Ehrungen:
1987    Borchers Medal, RWTH Aachen University
1988    Hermann Reissner Award for Aeronautics, Technical University of Stuttgart
2013    Carl Friedrich Gauß Award, Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft
2014    Fellow, RWTH Aachen University
2021    CEAS Aeroacoustics Award
2022    Fellow, Amercian Physical Society
2025    Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Ausgewählte Publikationen:
Ewert, R. Schröder, W., "Acoustic perturbation equations based on flow decomposition via source filtering”, Journal of Comp. Physics, Vol. 188, pp. 365-398, doi: 10.1016/S0021-9991(03)00168-2, 2003.
Fares, E. Schröder, W., "A General One-Equation Turbulence Model for Free Shear and Wall-Bounded Flows", Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, Vol. 73, pp. 187-215, doi: 10.1007/s10494-005-8625-y, 2004.
Schröder, W., Ewert, R., Bui, T. Ph., Gröschel, E., “An LES-APE Approach in Computational Aeroacoustics: Theory and Applications”, VKI Lecture Series 2006-07, Computational Aeroacoustics, 2006.
Große, S., Schröder, W., Brücker, Ch., “Nano-Newton drag sensor based on flexible micro-pillars“, Meas. Sci. Tech. 17, pp. 2689-2697, doi: 10.1088/0957-0233/17/10/022, 2006.
Große, S., Schröder, W., Klaas, M., Klöckner, A., Roggenkamp, J., “Time Resolved Analysis of Steady and Oscillating Flow in the Upper Human Airways”, Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 42(6), pp. 955-970, 2007.
Große, S. Schröder, W., “Wall-shear stress patterns of coherent structures in turbulent duct flow”, J. Fluid Mech., Vol. 633, pp. 147-158, doi: 10.1017/S0022112009007988, 2009.
Hartmann, D., Meinke, M., and Schröder, W., “The Constrained Reinitialization Equation for Level Set Methods“, Journal of Comp. Physics, Vol. 229, pp.1514-1535, doi: 10.1016/j.jcp.2009.10.042, 2010.
Hartmann, D., Meinke, M., and Schröder, W., “A strictly conservative Cartesian cut-cell method for compressible viscous flows on adaptive grids”, Comput. Meth. Appl. Mech. Eng., Vol. 200, pp. 1038-1052, doi:  10.1016/j.cma.2010.05.015, 2011.
Hartmann, D., Meinke, M., and Schröder, W., “A Level-Set Based Adaptive-Grid Method for Premixed Combustion.”, Combustion and Flame, 158, pp. 1318-1339, doi: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2010.11.007 , 2011.
Steimle, P.Ch., Karhoff, D.Ch., and Schröder, W., “Unsteady Transonic Flow over a Transport-Type Wing”, AIAA Journal, Vol. 50(2), pp. 399-415, doi: 10.2514/1.J051187, 2012.
Hartmann, A., Feldhusen, A., and Schröder, W., “On the interaction of shock waves and sound waves in transonic buffet flow“, Phys. Fluids, 25(2), doi: 10.1063/1.4791603, 2013.
Siewert, C., Kunnen, R.P.J., and Schröder, W., “Collision rates of small ellipsoids settling in turbulence“, J. Fluid Mech., Vol. 758, pp. 686-701, doi: 10.1017/jfm.2014.554, 2014.
Schlimpert, S., Hemchandra, S., Meinke, M., and Schröder W., “Hydrodynamic instability and shear layer effect on the response of an acoustically excited laminar premixed flame”, Combustion and Flame, Vol. 162, pp. 345-367, doi: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2014.08.001, 2015.
Schneiders, L., Günther, C., Meinke, M., and Schröder, W., “An efficient conservative cut-cell method for rigid bodies interacting with viscous compressible flows“, Journal of Comp. Physics, Vol. 311, pp. 62–86, doi: 10.1016/j.jcp.2016.01.026, 2016.
Statnikov, V., Meinke, M., and Schröder, W., “Reduced-order analysis of buffet flow of space launchers”, J. Fluid Mech., Vol. 815, pp. 1-25, doi: 10.1017/jfm.2017.46, 2017.
Schneiders, L., Meinke, M., and Schröder, W., “Direct particle-fluid simulation of Kolmogorov-length-scale size particles in decaying isotropic turbulence”, J. Fluid Mech., Vol. 819, pp. 188-227, doi: 10.1017/jfm.2017.171, 2017.
Schilden, T., and  Schröder, W., “Numerical analysis of high speed wind tunnel disturbance measurements using stagnation point probes“, J. Fluid Mech.,  Vol. 833, pp. 247-273, doi: 10.1017/jfm.2017.674,  2017.
Albers, M., Meysonnat, P.S., and Schröder, W., “Actively reduced airfoil drag by transversal surface waves”, Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, Vol. 102, pp. 865-886, doi: 10.1007/s10494-018-9998-z, 2019.
Schneiders, L., Fröhlich, K., Meinke, M., and Schröder, W., “The decay of isotropic turbulence carrying non-spherical finite-size particles”, J. Fluid Mech., Vol. 875, pp. 520-542, doi: 10.1017/jfm.2019.516, 2019.
Pausch, K., Herff, S., and Schröder, W., „Noise sources of an unconfined and a confined swirl burner”, Journal Sound and Vibration, Vol. 475, pp. 115293, doi: 10.1016/j.jsv.2020.115293, 2020.
Fröhlich, K., Meinke, M., and Schröder, W., “Correlations for inclined prolates based on highly resolved simulations”, J. Fluid Mech., 901:A5, doi: , 10.1017/jfm.2020.482, 2020.
Lagemann, Ch., Lagemann, K., Klaas, M., Mukherjee, S., and Schröder, W., “Deep recurrent optical flow learning for particle image velocimetry data”, Nature Machine Intelligence, Vol. 3, pp. 641-651, (published online), doi:10.1038/s42256-021-00369-0, 2021.
Herff, S., Pausch, K., Loosen, S., and Schröder, W., “Impact of non-symmetric confinement on the flame dynamics of a lean-premixed swirl flame”, Combustion and Flame, Vol. 235, 111701, DOI/10.1016/j.combustflame.2021.111701, Jan. 2022.
Mäteling, E., Albers, M., and Schröder W., “How spanwise travelling transversal surface waves change the near-wall flow”,  J. Fluid Mech.Vol. 957, A30, 2023.
Wegmann, T., Niemöller, A., Meinke, M., and Schröder, W., “Parallel Eulerian-Lagrangian coupling method on hierarchical meshes“, J. Comp. Phys., Vol. 521, 113509, doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2024.113509, Oct. 2024.
Lagemann, E., Brunton, S. L., Schröder, W., and Lagemann, Ch., “Towards extending the aircraft flight envelope by mitigating transonic airfoil buffet”, Nature Communications,https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-49361-3, 15:5020, 2024.