Having finished my Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in the summer of 2006, I am now employed as a post-doc at Montanuniversität Leoben in Leoben, Austria. My research project at the Materials Science Department at Berkeley dealt with bubbles in the gas fluxing of aluminum; that is, measuring the location and frequency of bubbles in an industrial gas fluxing unit and comparing the findings to a computational fluid dynamics model. Currently I am working on the numerical simulation of casting, remelting, and solidification of large composite castings in the Department of Metallurgy, Chair for Simulation and Modeling of Metallurgical Processes at Montanuniversität Leoben. And perhaps the most challenging thing I am working on at the moment is learning German.