Graduated with great honor (“magna cum laude”) • Scholarship of the German Research Foundation • Focus: Contact & Symplectic Topology • German Dr. rer. nat. (wiki > Doctor of natural sciences)

Thesis awarded with a prize of the German Mathematical Society • Graduated with distinction • Minor: Graph Theory & Theoretical Computer Science • German equivalent to a Master's degree (wiki > Diplom)

Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service • Advisor: John Etnyre

I work with the Probabilistic Computing Group at MIT, and lead the research engineering efforts for the MIT Quest for Intelligence perception moonshot. My employment is facilitated through Deel, enabling an international remote work setup • Focus: Probabilistic modeling • Spatial AI • Inverse graphics • SLAM • 3d scene understanding.

I supported the Probabilistic Computing Group on the MIT Quest for Intelligence perception moonshot as an independent contractor • Focus: Probabilistic modeling • Spatial AI • Inverse graphics • SLAM • 3d scene understanding.

Focus: Localization and planning in the hippocampal formation and how this can inform us about general cognitive computations and intelligence • Neural inspired SLAM • Neural data analysis (TDA, low-dimensional embeddings) • Representation of cognitive spaces

Role emerged from a month long research visit in Nov 2016 • Focus: Spatial representations in the brain, and their role in more general cognitive computations and intelligence • Emergence of modularity in continuous attractor networks • Relating sparse coding and information-theoretic concepts • Formal framework for Numenta’s sequence memory from a compression perspective

Focus: Combination of mathematics and computer science, including topological data analysis and machine learning • Topological cluster methods • Sparse coding • Variable order Markov models

I was a member of the IT Strategy department, with a focus on digital strategies and technology trends.

Three-month, free, self-directed, educational retreat for intellectually curious people who want to get better at programming • Relevant projects: Monadic parser combinator in JavaScript inspired by Haskell • Lisp interpreter in JavaScript

Full-time • Individual care of an autistic child at a school for children with special needs