Alena Ulke, M.Sc.

Short CV:

• since 02/2023: Research Assistant, School of Business and Mathematics, University of Mannheim
• 10/2020 – 01/2023: Master of Science in Mathematics (Subsidiary Subject Computer Science) at RWTH Aachen University,  Thesis Title: Traffic Emission Models: Simulation and Optimization
• 10/2021- 03/2022: Student Research Assistant at IGPM, RWTH Aachen University,  Focus: Development of a model describing volatile energy markets as a bilevel optimization problem
• 04/2020 – 03/2022: Student Research Assistant at IGPM, RWTH Aachen University,  Focus: Implementation of code (in C++) for a scientific software library for low-rank tensor formats
• 10/2016 – 09/2020: Bachelor of Science in Mathematics (Subsidiary Subject Physics) at RWTH Aachen University,  Thesis Title: Iterative Solvers with Truncation in Low-Rank Tensor Formats

Publications

Preprints

• S. Göttlich, M. Schuster, A. Ulke – Steady State Blended Gas Flow on Networks: Existence and Uniqueness of Solutions, arXiv, submitted (2024)

Articles

• S. Göttlich, M.Herty, A.Ulke – Speed limits in traffic emission models using multi-objective optimization, Optimization and Engineering (2024)
• A. Thünen, A. Ulke – A Continuous Model for Demand-Side Management in an Aggregator Model in Electricity Markets, PAMM Volume 22 (2023)

Conferences and Workshops

• Speaker at the Rhein-Main Arbeitskreis Mathematics of Computation in Mainz, January 2025; Talk: Gas Flow of Mixtures on Networks – Existence and Uniqueness of Steady-State Solutions
• Participant at the Mathematics of Gas Transport and Energy (MOG 2024) Conference in Regensburg, October 2024; Poster: Coupled Natural Gas-Hydrogen Networks: Modeling and Optimization
• Speaker at the Franco-German Interdisciplinary Workshop on Pedestrian Dynamics and Urban Mobility (PEDUM) in Wuppertal, June 2024; Talk: Multi-Objective Optimization in Traffic Emission Modeling
• Participant in the Women in Optimization (WiO) Workshop in Erlangen, April 2024; Poster: Modeling and Simulation of Coupled Natural Gas-Hydrogen Networks
• Speaker at the European Conference on Computational Optimization (EUCCO) in Heidelberg, September 2023; Talk: Multi-Objective Optimization in Traffic Emission Modeling
• Speaker at the 16^th Hirschegg Workshop on Conservation Laws in Hirschegg, September 2023; Talk: Traffic Emission Models with Variable Speed Limits
• Participant in the 8^th GAMM Juniors Summer School on Scientific Machine Learning in Hannover, July/August 2023
• Participant in the Women in Optimization (WiO) Workshop in Berlin, June 2022

Teaching

FSS 2025

• Analysis for Buisness Informatics (Exercises)

HWS 2024

• Numerics (Exercises and Substitute Lecturer)

FSS 2024

• Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations (Exercises)

HWS 2023

• Numerics (Exercises)

FSS 2023

• Analysis for Buisness Informatics (Exercises)
• Supervision of a Master Seminar