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Acknowledgement<br />

I would like to thank my advisor Pr<strong>of</strong>. Dr. Tobias Preusser for the guidance during my PhD studies<br />

and for giving me the opportunity to work in the rapidly growing field <strong>of</strong> stochastic modeling. Furthermore,<br />

Pr<strong>of</strong>. Preusser’s connection to Fraunh<strong>of</strong>er MEVIS enabled me to work in an inspiring<br />

environment <strong>of</strong> people working on image processing problems.<br />

Furthermore, I would like to thank Pr<strong>of</strong>. Dr. Marcel Oliver and Pr<strong>of</strong>. Dr. Joachim Weickert for<br />

being members <strong>of</strong> my dissertation committee.<br />

Special thanks go to the <strong>Jacobs</strong> <strong>University</strong> Bremen for the financial support during my PhD studies.<br />

Without the tuition waiver for the complete time <strong>of</strong> my PhD studies and the scholarship during the<br />

first two years, I would not be able to finish my studies successfully. Furthermore, special thanks go<br />

to Fraunh<strong>of</strong>er MEVIS for the student assistance contract during the first two years <strong>of</strong> my PhD studies<br />

and the possibility to use the infrastructure <strong>of</strong> the institute for my studies.<br />

I am grateful to all my colleagues at the "Modeling and Simulation" group at Fraunh<strong>of</strong>er MEVIS.<br />

Especially, I would like to thank Sabrina Haase, Hanne Tiesler, and Dr. Ole Schwen for reading and<br />

commenting on a draft <strong>of</strong> this thesis.<br />

I am also thankful to the QuocMesh collective from the work group <strong>of</strong> Pr<strong>of</strong>. Dr. Martin Rumpf at<br />

the Institute <strong>of</strong> Numerical Simulation <strong>of</strong> the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. All<br />

implementations <strong>of</strong> the methods from this thesis are done in QuocMesh and without this excellent<br />

finite element library this would be much more work. Especially, I would like to thank Dr. Ole<br />

Schwen for answering all my questions concerning QuocMesh.<br />

I am also grateful to Pr<strong>of</strong>. Dr. Robert M. Kirby from the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Utah in Salt Lake City,<br />

USA, for the possibility to stay two weeks at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute in Salt<br />

Lake City. Furthermore, I would like to thank Pr<strong>of</strong>. Kirby and Pr<strong>of</strong>. Joshi for the fruitful discussions<br />

during my stay in Salt Lake City.<br />

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