Prof. Dr. Sina Ober-Blöbaum

Numerical Mathematics and Control
Head - Professor
Institut für Industriemathematik
Committee - Professor
33100 Paderborn
- Research Interests
- structure-preserving integration
- Lagrange and Hamilton systems and variational integrators
- fractional and dissipative Lagrange systems
- multirate dynamics and multirate integration
- numerical methods in optimal control
- symmetries and turnpike properties in optimal control
- learning of Hamilton and Lagrange systems
- applications in astrodynamics, drive technology and quantum dynamics

Education and Academic Career |
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Since 2020 |
Professor (W3) Paderborn University |
12/2021 - 12/2022 |
Parental leave |
2015 - 2020 |
Associate Professor University of Oxford, UK |
10/2018 - 06/2019 |
Parental leave |
01/2017 - 08/2017 |
Parental leave |
2014 - 2015 |
Guest Professor Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
2009 - 2015 |
Junior Professor Paderborn University |
2013 - 2014 |
Guest Professor Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
2011 - 2012 |
Substitute Professor Technische Universität München, Germany |
2008 - 2009 |
Postdoc California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA |
13.03.2008 |
Doctorate Applied Mathematics, Paderborn University, Germany. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Dellnitz |
1999 - 2004 |
Degree programme Diploma in Technomathematics, Paderborn University |
Awards und Fellowships |
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Since 2016 |
Selected Invited Talks 2021: Conference on the Numerical Solution of Differential and Differential-Algebraic Equations (NUMDIFF-16, Halle, Germany, 2021), Plenary Talk 2016: 4th European Conference on Computational Optimization (EUCCCO, Leuven, Belgium, 2016), Plenary Talk |
2018 |
Oberwolfach Research in Pairs, Approval of a two-week research stay at the Mathematical Research Institute Oberwolfach, Germany |
2011 - 2014 |
Member of "Junges Kolleg" of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, Germany |
2013 |
"Eleonore-Trefftz guest professorship" grant at the Technical University Dresden, Germany |
2011 |
Best paper award, 8th Paderborn Workshop on Design of mechatronic systems, Paderborn, Germany |
2011 |
Best poster award, International Conference on Simulation Technology, Stuttgart, Germany |
2009 |
Award for the best PhD thesis in 2008 of Paderborn University |
2008 |
Best poster award, Oberwolfach seminar Applied Dynamics and Geometric Mechanics, Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics, Germany |
Miscellaneous |
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Since 2021 |
Leader, web team of the Department of Mathematics, Paderborn University |
Since 2011 |
Supervision of Researchers in Early Career Phases Doctorates Postdocs |
Since 2009 |
Referee: DFG, Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, leading mathematical and control engineering Journals (published, e.g., by IEEE (e.g. TAC), SIAM (e.g. Numerical Analysis), Springer (e.g. Numerische Mathematik), IFAC) |
2010 - 2014 |
Leader, web team of the Department of Mathematics, Paderborn University |
Scientific Engagement |
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Organisation of Scientific Events |
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Since 2011 |
Member of Scientific Committees of four international conferences |
Since 2010 |
(Co-)Organization of several minisymposia at international conferences (e.g., ECC, MTNS) and different lecture series at international Summer/Winter Schools (e.g. Madrid) |
2013 |
Organiser, Dresdner Mathematical Series Women in Science, TU Dresden, Germany |
2012 |
Organisation of research day of "Junges Kolleg" of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, Germany |
Engagement in Scientific Organisations |
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Since 2021 |
Steering group member of "Frauen gestalten die Informationsgesellschaft" and perspEktIveM (mentoring program for female students), Paderborn University |
2017 - 2020 |
Member, Advisory Committee of the German Research Foundation Research Training Group Pi3: Parameter Identification "Analysis, Algorithms, Implementations" of the University of Bremen, Germany |
2011 - 2015 |
Steering group member of "Frauen gestalten die Informationsgesellschaft" and perspEktIveM (mentoring program for female students), Paderborn University |
Editorial Boards and Editorship |
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Since 2017 |
Editorial Board of AIMS Journal of Computational Dynamics and GEM - International Journal on Geomathematics |
Membership in Scientific Societies |
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2017 |
Committee Member "Future of GAMM", GAMM (Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics) |
Since 2021 |
Leader, web team of the Department of Mathematics, Paderborn University |
Since 2021 |
Steering group member of "Frauen gestalten die Informationsgesellschaft" and perspEktIveM (mentoring program for female students), Paderborn University |
Since 2020 |
Professor (W3) Paderborn University |
Since 2017 |
Editorial Board of AIMS Journal of Computational Dynamics and GEM - International Journal on Geomathematics |
Since 2016 |
Selected Invited Talks 2021: Conference on the Numerical Solution of Differential and Differential-Algebraic Equations (NUMDIFF-16, Halle, Germany, 2021), Plenary Talk 2016: 4th European Conference on Computational Optimization (EUCCCO, Leuven, Belgium, 2016), Plenary Talk |
Since 2011 |
Supervision of Researchers in Early Career Phases Doctorates Postdocs |
Since 2011 |
Member of Scientific Committees of four international conferences |
Since 2010 |
(Co-)Organization of several minisymposia at international conferences (e.g., ECC, MTNS) and different lecture series at international Summer/Winter Schools (e.g. Madrid) |
Since 2009 |
Referee: DFG, Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, leading mathematical and control engineering Journals (published, e.g., by IEEE (e.g. TAC), SIAM (e.g. Numerical Analysis), Springer (e.g. Numerische Mathematik), IFAC) |
12/2021 - 12/2022 |
Parental leave |
2017 - 2020 |
Member, Advisory Committee of the German Research Foundation Research Training Group Pi3: Parameter Identification "Analysis, Algorithms, Implementations" of the University of Bremen, Germany |
2015 - 2020 |
Associate Professor University of Oxford, UK |
10/2018 - 06/2019 |
Parental leave |
2018 |
Oberwolfach Research in Pairs, Approval of a two-week research stay at the Mathematical Research Institute Oberwolfach, Germany |
01/2017 - 08/2017 |
Parental leave |
2017 |
Committee Member "Future of GAMM", GAMM (Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics) |
2014 - 2015 |
Guest Professor Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
2011 - 2015 |
Steering group member of "Frauen gestalten die Informationsgesellschaft" and perspEktIveM (mentoring program for female students), Paderborn University |
2009 - 2015 |
Junior Professor Paderborn University |
2013 - 2014 |
Guest Professor Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
2011 - 2014 |
Member of "Junges Kolleg" of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, Germany |
2010 - 2014 |
Leader, web team of the Department of Mathematics, Paderborn University |
2013 |
Organiser, Dresdner Mathematical Series Women in Science, TU Dresden, Germany |
2013 |
"Eleonore-Trefftz guest professorship" grant at the Technical University Dresden, Germany |
2012 |
Organisation of research day of "Junges Kolleg" of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, Germany |
2011 - 2012 |
Substitute Professor Technische Universität München, Germany |
2011 |
Best paper award, 8th Paderborn Workshop on Design of mechatronic systems, Paderborn, Germany |
2011 |
Best poster award, International Conference on Simulation Technology, Stuttgart, Germany |
2009 |
Award for the best PhD thesis in 2008 of Paderborn University |
2008 - 2009 |
Postdoc California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA |
13.03.2008 |
Doctorate Applied Mathematics, Paderborn University, Germany. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Dellnitz |
2008 |
Best poster award, Oberwolfach seminar Applied Dynamics and Geometric Mechanics, Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics, Germany |
1999 - 2004 |
Degree programme Diploma in Technomathematics, Paderborn University |
Publications
Latest Publications
Multiphoton, multimode state classification for nonlinear optical circuits
D. Kopylov, C. Offen, L. Ares, B.E. Wembe Moafo, S. Ober-Blöbaum, T. Meier, P. Sharapova, J. Sperling, (n.d.).
A new Lagrangian approach to control affine systems with a quadratic Lagrange term
S. Leyendecker, S. Maslovskaya, S. Ober-Blöbaum, R.T.S.M. de Almagro, F.O. Szemenyei, Journal of Computational Dynamics 0 (2024) 0–0.
Learning of discrete models of variational PDEs from data
C. Offen, S. Ober-Blöbaum, Chaos 34 (2024).
Discrete Lagrangian Neural Networks with Automatic Symmetry Discovery
Y. Lishkova, P. Scherer, S. Ridderbusch, M. Jamnik, P. Liò, S. Ober-Blöbaum, C. Offen, in: IFAC-PapersOnLine, Elsevier, 2023, pp. 3203–3210.
Learning discrete Lagrangians for variational PDEs from data and detection of travelling waves
C. Offen, S. Ober-Blöbaum, in: F. Nielsen, F. Barbaresco (Eds.), Geometric Science of Information, Springer, Cham., 2023, pp. 569–579.
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