Dr. Jan Heners received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Technical University of Hamburg and the University of Hamburg. Following his studies, he joined MTU Aero Engines AG as a research engineer in the Department of Aerodynamics, where he has continuously contributed to research on the aeroelastic analysis of aircraft engines. In parallel, he served as a guest researcher at the Institute of Thermal Turbomachinery and Machinery Laboratory at the University of Stuttgart, completing his PhD in 2022.

His scientific work focuses on CFD methods for unsteady turbomachinery flows, with particular emphasis on the aeroelastic behavior of compressor and turbine blades. From 2021 to 2023, he conducted postdoctoral research at the Chair of Applied Mathematics at Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, concentrating on adjoint optimization and algorithmic performance.

Since 2019, he has been an active member of the German Association for Computational Mechanics (GACM), contributing to the advancement of computational methods within the engineering community. In 2024, Dr. Heners was appointed adjunct professor at the Berliner Hochschule für Technik and the Hamburg School of Business Administration.