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Education and professional career

  • Heidelberg University:
    • Doctoral studies, Simulation and Optimization Group of H.G. Bock, Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), PhD thesis submitted August 2011
    • Scientific assistant, IWR, since September 2006
    • Diplom in Mathematics with minor Computer Science (grade: Mit Auszeichnung, with distinction), August 2006
    • Vordiplom in Mathematics (average grade: sehr gut, very good), April 2003
  • Abitur (average grade: 1.0), Gymnasium Bad Kissingen (grammar school), 2000

International experience

  • Numerical Analysis Group, Oxford, England, work on chebfun project with L.N. Trefethen, November 2010 (one week)
  • OPTEC Center Leuven, Belgium, work with M. Diehl, November 2008 (two weeks)
  • Rice University, Houston, TX, USA, Complimentary Research Scholar, work with M. Heinkenschloss and T. Warburton, Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, January 2005-October 2005

Awards, scholarships, and training programs

  • Associate fellow of Heidelberg Graduate School of Mathematical and Computational Methods for the Sciences, since 2008
  • Award for best talk from a didactical point of view, 14th Belgian-French-German Conference on Optimization Leuven, September 2009
  • Associate fellow of International Graduate Program Heidelberg-Warsaw Complex Processes: Modeling, Simulation and Optimization, 2007-2009
  • Research student of International Graduate Program Heidelberg-Warsaw Complex Processes: Modeling, Simulation and Optimization, 2004-2005
  • Scholarship from the state of Bavaria, Stipendium nach dem Bayerischen Begabtenförderungsgesetz, 2000-2006
  • Participant of course Bioinformatik, summer camp Deutsche Schülerakademie for highly gifted pupils, organized by Bildung und Begabung e.V., 1999

Teaching activities outside of university

  • Project mentor at Hector Seminar for highly gifted pupils, 2009-2010
  • Course leader Mathematics at the pupils' summer camp Science Academy Baden-Württemberg, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, 2003
  • Heidelberger Life-Science Lab, project for interested and gifted pupils; student mentor International Science Academy Portugal 2002; group mentor, Hardware-AG, 2001-2004