Research stay in the group of Prof. Steven Kivelson, working with Dr. Yoni Schattner on a paper about the antiferromagnetic metallic quantum critical point. Enjoyed the hospitality, the sports facilities, and the commencement ceremony!
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2018
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Research Stay
One-moth visit to the physics department, focusing on the discovery of novel, sign-problem-free quantum field theories.
2018 - »
PhD Theoretical Physics (Grade: magna cum laude)
PhD Thesis: Simulating and machine learning quantum criticality in a nearly antiferromagnetic metal.
For more information, please see projects or the publications below.2016 - 2020 - »
Research Stays
Multiple long research stays in the group of Prof. Erez Berg, collaborating on quantum monte carlo simulations of quantum critical metals. Loved everything, especially Ein Avdat and the hummus!
2016 - 2020 - »
Research Stay
Multi-month stay in Prof. Peter Hirschfeld’s group during which I wrote most of my master’s thesis. My stay was nothing short of amazing! (Go Gators!)
2015 - »
Master of Science Physics (Grade: 1.0, ~ GPA 4.0)
Master’s Thesis: Quasi-Particle Velocity Renormalization in Graphene. Method: Functional Renormalization Group.
2013 - 2015 - »
2010 - 2013
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2009 - 2010
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2008
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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 - »
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 - »
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 - »
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 - »
PhysikOnlineProject 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 - »
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 - »
Teaching Assistant
Course: Fundamentals of Computer Science. Tought weekly sessions, co-corrected exam results.
2009 - 2010
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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 - »
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 - »
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 - »
"Wechselwirkungen" Participant
Highly exclusive training course at the McKinsey Alpine University in Kitzbuhel, Austria.
2016