Jan Sokolowski
Email • PhD in Mathematics
Shape Optimization in Solids and Fluids, Navier-Stokes equations, optimal control
Visiting Scientist
IECL, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France and Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Host: Martin Gugat
Room 03.311 | FAU DCN-AvH, Chair for Dynamics, Control, Machine Learning and Numerics – Alexander von Humboldt Professorship
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät. Department Mathematik
I am a visiting Professor at FAU DCN-AvH, the Chair for Dynamics, Control, Machine Learning and Numerics – Alexander von Humboldt Professorship at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bavaria (Germany).
My previous visits: August 1 – September 30, 2024 | May 11 – 23, 2023 | May 2022 | August 2022 – September 2022
Invited Professorship in Science without Frontieres Programme, LNCC, Brazil.
Polish-Russian Award of Academies of Sciences for the monograph: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-0348-0367-0
My research focuses Shape Optimization in Solids and Fluids, compressible Navier-Stokes equations, Control and Design of Networks and Optimal Control.
Research interests
My research interests include
• Shape Optimization in Solids and Fluids,
• Compressible Navier-Stokes equations: Theory and Applications,
• Asymptotic Analysis of Boundary Value Problems in Singularly Perturbed Domains – Topological Derivatives,
• Control and Design of Networks
• Optimal Control Problems
Projects
• Modeling, Robust Design and Control of Gas Networks. By J. Sokolowski, M. Gugat. Doctoral School of Information and Biomedical Technologies Polish Academy of Sciences (2022 – now)
Posts on Math & Research

Network design and control: Shape and topology optimization for the turnpike property for the wave equation
Authors: Martin Gugat, Meizhi Qian, Jan Sokolowski
Date: March 17, 2026
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News / Initiatives

Gradient flow for the Kohn-Vogelius functional in shape optimization. FAU DCN-AvH mini-workshop: Recent Advances in Analysis and Control
Authors: Jan Sokolowski
Date: May 11, 2023
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Publications
2024
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The location problem for compressor stations in pipeline networks
In: Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems 12 (2024), p. 507–546
ISSN: 2326-7186
DOI: 10.2140/memocs.2024.12.507
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Network Design and Control: Shape and Topology Optimization for the Turnpike Property for the Wave Equation
In: Journal of Geometric Analysis 34 (2024), Article No.: 273
ISSN: 1050-6926
DOI: 10.1007/s12220-024-01712-8
URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12220-024-01712-8
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