Sven Friedel

Managing Director COMSOL Multiphysics, Zurich

Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

About

Helping companies gain a competitive edge through simulation-driven development | COMSOL Multiphysics - Provider of modeling solutions in all fields of physics. The world is too complex to be reduced to simplifying models - get it coupled. Explore the beauty of interaction of physical fields and turn it into profitable ideas and sustainable solutions. Specialties: COMSOL Multiphysics: the coupled interaction of physical processes: Electromagnetics, Heat Transfer, Acoustics, Fluid Dynamics, Structural Mechanics and Reaction Engineering. Citations: http://scholar.google.ch/citations?user=SU7Il8gAAAAJ

Experience

  • Managing Director at COMSOL Multiphysics GmbH
    Jan 2009 - Present · 17 yrs 7 mos

    Helping engineers and scientists in industry and academia successfully apply Multiphysics simulations. Building an efficient and successful technical sales team. Reinforcing our position as a leading provider and developer of mathematical modeling software, making it the primary tool for engineers, researchers, and lecturers in the fields of education and high-tech product development.

  • Branch Manager at FEMLAB GmbH
    Apr 2004 - Jan 2009 · 4 yrs 10 mos

    Setting up the Swiss Branch of COMSOL AB from the scratch and turning it into a profitable company by providing Multiphysics simulation solutions.

  • ETH Zürich (4 yrs 11 mos)
    • Postdoctoral Researcher
      Feb 2002 - Dec 2006 · 4 yrs 11 mos

    • PostDoc
      Mar 2002 - Mar 2004 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Research in the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering headed by Prof. Sarah Springman. - on an integrated sensor for the detection of contaminants in the subsurface (EP Patent 1,388,615) - on rainfall-induced landslides using geophysical and geotechnical methods - Lectures on Geophysics in Geotechnical Engineering Close collaboration with the group AUG of the ETH Institutes of Geophysics and Institute of Engineering Geology: - Research on resolution and stability of the geoelectric inverse problem - Research on the detection of groundwater resources on the island of Mallorca (see full list of papers following the link in the summary section)

  • Senior Scientist, Lecturer at Universität Leipzig
    Jan 2000 - Mar 2002 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    Geophysicst, Volcanologist, Lecturer in Geomagnetism and Volcanology - Research on High Merapi Volcano, Central Java. (leading BMBF research project and 5 fieldwork expeditions) - Hardware development of a geoectrcial power source - Research on geophysical inverse problems in particular Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) - Research on inductive geoelectrical methods applied in the hydrogeology of former opencast mining sites (see full list of papers following the link in the summary section)