Prof. Dr. David M. Straub

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
HM Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences
Department of Mechanical, Automotive and Aeronautical Engineering

Contact

Dachauer Str. 98b, 80335 München, Room B 374

Research and projects

With a background in fundamental physics and experience in high-tech startups, I work on computational and data-driven modeling in engineering and on the software engineering it takes. I release my work as open source and contribute to the projects it builds on. Four areas at the moment:

Fusion energy

Microwave heating of fusion plasmas.

Raytrax – open-source Python library for electron cyclotron resonance heating, which I started at Proxima Fusion
Blog post on what it does and why

Batteries

Physics-based and data-driven modeling of next-generation cells and battery systems.

PathSim-Batt – battery cell blocks I maintain for the PathSim simulation framework, built on PyBaMM

Code-based engineering

Parametric modeling, geometry and design space exploration in Python.

CAD as Code – open-source book, developed alongside my teaching
Programming CAx systems – my course at HM

Open data and digital humanities

Family and local history are a long-standing personal interest of mine, and open data is where I think their sources belong.

Domus – map-based platform for researching house history and recording it directly in Wikidata and OpenHistoricalMap, described in a preprint
Gramps Web – open-source, self-hosted platform for collaborative family tree research, which I maintain