CV

Education

Since 2023 Applied mathematics PhD candidate, Universität Hamburg, Germany, based at DESY Hamburg, under the supervision of Martin Burger.
I am working on mathematical modelling, solution algorithms and uncertainty quantification for inverse imaging problems, with a particular application in gamma emission imaging for nuclear decommissioning.
2021 - 2023 Applied mathematics PhD studies, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
Our group moved to Hamburg in April 2023, where I will finish my PhD at UHH.
2020 - 2021 MASt in Applied Mathematics (Part III), University of Cambridge, UK.
Graduated with distinction.
2018 - 2020 M.Sc. Mathematics, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany.
Graduated with distinction, awarded Otto-Volk medal for outstanding results.
2016 - 2018 B.Sc. Mathematics, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany.
Graduated with distinction.

Positions

Jun 2024 - Sep 2024 Software Engineering Intern, Apple Inc., Cambridge, UK.
16 week internship in Apple’s Camera & Photos division. I work on development of efficient image processing algorithms.
Since Jul 2021 Research Assistant, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
Position accompanying my PhD studies – I am part of a research project on developing Compton cameras for in-situ gamma spectrometry in nuclear decommissioning.
Mar 2019 - Feb 2020 Student Research Assistant, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany.
Research on Compton scattering tomography for potential medical and industrial applications.

Research Visits

May 2024 California Institute of Technology (1 month), hosted by Prof. Franca Hoffmann
Nov 2023 Technical University of Denmark (1 week), hosted by Prof. Yiqiu Dong & the CUQI project
Mar 2023 University of Bath (1 week), hosted by Prof. Matthias J. Ehrhardt
May - Jul 2022 University of Cambridge (2 months), hosted by Prof. Carola-Bibane Schönlieb & Cambridge Image Analysis and Mathworks

Teaching

2022 (Winter) Lecture assistant Inverse Problems, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
2021 (Winter) Lecture assistant Numerical Mathematics, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
2017 - 2020 Student tutor in undergrad courses (Analysis, Numerical Mathematics, Algebra etc.)

Fellowships & Awards

2024 SIAM Student Travel Award for the SIAM Conference on Imaging Sciences 2024, Atlanta, GA, USA.
2020 - 2021 Student scholarship German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), funding my MASt in Cambridge.
2020 Award for outstanding results in M.Sc. Mathematics, University of Würzburg
2016 - 2021 Student scholarship, German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)