Education
Work
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    Manager - Software & AI

    Advancing Digitilisation, Software, and AI projects in the German Space Programme. Jointly responsible for a seven-figure annual budget.

    2025 - Current
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    Senior Research Software Engineer - Head of Training

    National High Performance Computing at PC2. HPC expert & advisor in the German NHR Alliance. Group leader of a four-person training team. Jointly responsible for establishing a new (~€10 million) supercomputer. Established international collaborations with MIT, UCL, and ETH Zurich. Research interests: interactive HPC, quantum simulations, quantum computing.

    2021 - 2024
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    CEO - IT Consultant - Trainer

    IT Strategy, Simulation & Computing, Professional Presenting. Customers include various public institutions, companies and startups in Europe (mostly Germany, Netherlands, UK) and beyond (primarily US).

    2020 - Current
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    Research Scientist

    Lots of computational condensed matter physics research with extended stays to Stanford, the Weizmann Institute of Science, and the University of Chicago. Co-lecturer of the mandatory computational physics class. Responsible for creating assignments and exams for various classes. Besides physics, I developed an automatic paper lookup system (PHP, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS), that is used by multiple excellent research clusters, and maintained the event server of the institue (linux server).

    2016 - 2021
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    PhysikOnline
    Project Lead - Software Engineer

    Led a student team which develops and integrates educational technology. My responsibilities encompassed recruiting, fundraising and strategic planning, as well as linux server maintenance and front and back end programming (Javascript, Python, HTML, CSS). The project comprised multiple permanent and temporary student positions for which we secured EUR ~50k yearly funds. The video service RiedbergTV was part of the mentoring program of the Deutschland Stipendium in the course of which we supervised scholarship holders.

    2012 - 2016
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    Student Assistant

    Teaching assistant for various undergraduate and graduate physics classes. Taught weekly problem sessions, held office hours, graded assignments, created and maintained course web-pages. Junior researcher in physics labs, writing code in C, Matlab, and Python.

    2010 - 2015
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    Teaching Assistant

    Course: Fundamentals of Computer Science. Tought weekly sessions, co-corrected exam results.

    2009 - 2010
Experiences
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    Scientific Reviewer & Editor

    Peer-reviewed submissions for various renowned journals including Nature Communications, the Physical Review Journals, and the Journal for Open Source Software. Editor (partially in-chief) of the JuliaCon proceedings from 2021-2024.

    2020 - Current
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    Software Engineer & Community Organizer

    Co-led various open source software projects, most notably around core HPC packages in Julia. Co-organized the JuliaCon Global conference from 2020-2024 including at MIT and in the PSV Eindhoven stadium.

    2017 - Current
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    IT Strategy Consultant

    Member of the Sector Strategy, Knowledge & Learning Unit. Supported the organisation in their Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) efforts. Improved the survey system that is used around the global, especially in Africa.

    2016
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    "Wechselwirkungen" Participant

    Highly exclusive training course at the McKinsey Alpine University in Kitzbuhel, Austria.

    2016