Email: maik@talkelab.ucsd.edu Phone: 858-534-3175 Fax: 858-534-2720 Address: University of California, San Diego Mail Code #0401 9500 Gilman Dr. La Jolla, CA, 92093-0401

Biography of Maik Duwensee

Maik was born on October 1st, 1973 in Buetzow, a small town in north-east Germany (www.buetzow.de). He graduated from high school in 1992. From 1993 to 1995 Maik worked in several design departments at BMW in Munich. In 1995 he became a licensed technical drawer in engineering. The same year he moved to Rostock to start studying mechanical engineering at the University of Rostock (www.uni-rostock.de). After finishing his pre-diploma in 1997, he received a scholarship from the Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (www.sdw.org). At the University of Rostock, Maik chose to study “Applied Mechanics”. He received his Dipl.-Ing. Degree (M.Sc) in 2001 and graduated first of his class with Summa cum laude. His final thesis is entitled “Active Sway Motion Damping for a Kinematically Underconstrained Cable Manipulator”. During his time at the University of Rostock he had the opportunity to work as an intern at Robert Bosch GmbH in Stuttgart/Germany. He summarized his research at Bosch with a thesis entitled “Simulation of Flexible Multibody Systems with SIMPACK and ADAMS”. Maik was a visiting student at CMRR/UCSD during the academic year 1999-2000. He completed an internal report entitled “Improvements in the Pre- and Postprocessing Software for a Finite Element Based Airbearing Simulator”. Before rejoining the TalkeLab as a graduate student in 2002, Maik worked as a Research Assistant at the Institute for Drive Mechanics and Mechatronics at the University of Rostock. (http://iamserver.fms.uni-rostock.de/info/index.htm). He worked on the simulation of car dynamics with gas-spring dampers. Maik received his M.Sc degree from the University of California in the summer of 2004. After receiving his M.Sc he spent the summer of 2004 as an intern at the Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Research Center in Almaden, San Jose, California. He presented his work at the Intermag 2005 Conference in Nagoya/Japan ( IntermagPoster.pdf, IntermagPaper.pdf) and the World Tribology Congress 2005 in Washington D.C., USA ( WTCPresentation.pdf). In the summer of 2005, Maik was working for Western Digital as a summer intern. In the Winter quarters of 2004 and 2005 Maik was a Teaching Assistant for the MAE150 course. He was received the “Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award” in 2004 and the “Highest Academic Achievements Award” in graduate studies in 2005.

• Research: Air bearing and particle simulation of discrete track recording head/disk interfaces