Norbert Siedow is member of the the department Transport Processes at the Fraunhofer-Institut für Techno- und Wirtschaftsmathematik (ITWM) in Kaiserslautern. He is responsible for the activities in radiative heat transfer and parameter identification. His interests lie in in mathematical modeling, numerical methods for partial differential equations and their applications. He has worked for many years on several industrial projects about direct and inverse problems of radiative heat transfer for European glass companies as well as for medical applications.