André Wilmes has co-founded Rafinex to solve customers' most challenging engineering design and optimization challenges with the most advanced mathematics. Rafinex creates novel algorithms which go beyond current market CAE tools by accounting for real-life variability using uncertainty quantification methods and by considering manufacturability; allowing safe and profitable usage by everyone in engineering design. André has researched numerical methods for simulating composite nano-materials at Imperial College London and has given guest seminars at leading research centers including NASA and TU Munich. He has experience as an R&D project manager in the ceramics and manufacturing industries, where he developed new simulation methods and experimental prototype processes in a variety of material topics ranging from fracture mechanics to optics.