The graduate of the Master’s programme in Information and Electrical Engineering completed his PhD on the topic “Acceleration of Discrete Event-Based Simulation Studies Using the DEVS Formalism on HPC Systems” with a distinction of magna cum laude.
The practical results and software solutions developed as part of the thesis have already been published on GitHub and are freely accessible. This means that the results can be utilised by user companies and further developed by external users. GitHub is a cloud-based platform where code can be stored and shared, enabling further collaboration.
During his research, David Jammer initially developed simulation tools. Using these, he examined production lines involving equipment ranging from turning machines and furnaces to grinding machines. As a result of this work, David Jammer developed a software solution for comprehensive factory planning across all sectors of the manufacturing industry.
The doctoral project was supervised jointly by the ‘Computational Engineering and Automation’ (CEA) research group at our university’s Faculty of Engineering and by the Private University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Technology (PHWT) in Diepholz/Vechta. Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Peter Junglas, who teaches and conducts research at the Lower Saxony university, played a key role in providing ideas and supervising the project. The University of Rostock and, to a lesser extent, TU Wien were also involved in the supervision. The thesis was examined by Prof. Dr. techn. Felix Breitenecker from TU Wien, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Torsten Jeinsch from the University of Rostock, and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sven Pawletta from Wismar University of Applied Sciences.
David Jammer began his professional and academic career with an apprenticeship as an electronics technician specialising in industrial engineering at M-TEC GmbH in Boizenburg/Elbe. He then went on to complete further training as a state-certified technician specialising in automation technology at the Technical Vocational School in Schwerin. In 2014, the skilled worker, who held a school-leaving certificate, initially commenced his Bachelor’s degree in Information and Electrical Engineering at our UAS. This was followed by a Master’s degree, which he completed in 2019 as the top student in his year. The graduate immediately began his doctoral research as a research assistant in the CEA research group, as part of an interdisciplinary research team spanning the fields of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science as well as Mechanical Engineering/Process and Environmental Engineering.
The project was funded with the help of research grants from the CEA research group, as well as through temporary support from the cooperation partner PHWT in Diepholz as part of the funded project “Development of Methods for System Simulation on Parallel Computer Architectures”. Since the beginning of 2026, David Jammer has been working as a research assistant on the CEA research group’s new “GeoTwinFrame” project.
Dr David Jammer’s doctoral thesis will be published in the specialist book series “Advances in Simulation Technology”, which is published by the Simulation Working Group of the Society.