Michael Kraus is leader of the working group Geometric Numerical Integration and Reduced Complexity Modelling in the department Numerical Methods in Plasma Physics at IPP Garching (https://www.ipp.mpg.de/4106005/gspm). Michael studied physics at the University of Jena and then TU München. For his dissertation at IPP Garching on Variational Integrators in Plasma Physics he received the Otto-Hahn Medal of the MPG. After obtaining his PhD he also gained a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship for a two year research stay abroad as Visiting Assistant Professor at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. In 2017 he returned to IPP as tenure staff scientist in department NMPP where he was promoted to working group leader in 2021.
