Quick Facts

A collection of facts about me (some of them are perhaps more noteworthy than others, but that is up to you).

Life/Career
  • I was born and raised near Hannover, Germany.
  • I studied Physics at Leibniz University Hannover (earning a Bachelor's and Master's degree).
  • I had the privilege to write both theses during my studies at the Albert-Einstein institute in Frank Ohme's group.
  • To my own amazement, I have been accepted for a Physics PhD at Caltech, where I will start in fall 2025.
Miscellaneous
  • I once scored the last penalty to win a youth tournament for my football team.
  • I own a picture of myself with Kip Thorne.
  • I have some kind of strange obsession for TikZ (though I prefer the word passion). If you need proof for that, just check out my GitHub.

Science

On my scientific interests

I am mainly interested in Computational Physics and also statistics. A natural interest is therefore Gravitational (Wave) Physics, especially the Data Analysis involved.

As a part of that, I wrote my Bachelor's thesis on "Systematic Differences in the Source Properties of the third Gravitational Wave Catalog" in Frank Ohme's group at the Albert-Einstein institute (AEI) in Hannover. In 2024, I returned to Frank's group at the AEI for my Master's thesis on "Systematic Errors in Gravitational Waveform Models". Many of the repositories on my GitHub came into existence during this time, along with the thesis itself that was submitted in May, 2025. One of the repos is a PyCBC plugin that was developed as part of the paper arXiv:2503.17400.

If you have time to spare, you can find and read the theses at DOI 10.15488/19414 and DOI 10.15488/19415. Code accompanying my Bachelor's thesis can be found here.

Personal

What I do apart from science

In my free time, I like to spend time working out, running, or playing football. I also love to watch all kinds of sports.
Besides that I enjoy photography, my favorite subject being landscapes.

Moreover, I love to create plots that visualize my research or simply look cool. If you are interested, just checkout my GitHub, for example the gwbar, gwtheme, and gwframes repos.