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Siegen, NRW, DE

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Lausanne Area, Switzerland

• Project management for R&D effort to improve large scale and corridor mapping
• Designing/evolving APIs of photogrammetry backend (C++/CUDA/Ceres/Eigen)

Lausanne Area, Switzerland

• Developing photogrammetry backend for 3D reconstruction from drone images
• Refactoring, profiling and optimizing large legacy C++ codebase
• Maintaining build system (CMake/Conan/Concourse) for internal products and external open-source dependencies

Lausanne Area, Switzerland

• Software Engineer in two projects:
• Preparing large CFD software package 'channelflow' (C++ with MPI/FFTW/Eigen) for open-source release: Reviewing code and programming interfaces, profiling, automated build and testing (googletest via Travis CI).
• Implementing solid mechanics simulation of elastic shells, from deriving the equations (analytical geometry) via implementation (integrated into existing code package in C++/python) to test (googletest) and validation

Lausanne Area, Switzerland

• Doctoral studies in the Emergent Complexity in Physical Systems Laboratory, developing simulation software in dynamical systems and computational fluid dynamics.Main achievements:
• Developing high-performance numerical simulation code for 3D free surface flow problems, fully parallel C++ code with MPI/openMP, >30 000 lines of code written/tested/validated
• Researching throughput limitations for droplet injection and sorting in droplet microfluidics
• Teaching student groups in turbulence theory, computational fluid dynamicsThesis: "3D Boundary Element Simulation of Droplet Dynamics in Microchannels: How Droplets Squeeze Through Constrictions and Move in Electric.

Göttingen Area, Germany

Part-time. Testing/profiling C++/CUDA spectral numerical code for thermal convection, improving performance (2x speedup) and accuracy. Extending the code to simulate particle transport and display Qt-based live runtime visualization of running simulation.

Part-time, at Chair of Economic Policy and SME Research: Developing software for economic experiments in zTree programming environment

Freiburg Area, Germany

Full-time internship at Fraunhofer EMI, design, simulations and cost estimates on cubesat satellite missions in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for active debris removal

Göttingen Area, Germany

• Part-time.
• Development and optimization of data processing algorithms for laser-doppler-velocimetry experiments in turbulent flows (matlab/labview/C++)
• Extending C++ frontend for FPGA-based data processing of high speed camera images
• Developing desktop application for visualizing 3D particle tracking data (C++, Qt)

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Full-time internship funded by the DAAD RISE program, developing computer vision algorithms for object recognition and image segmentation (matlab/C++)

Freelance collaborator in developer network (>600 hours), working on PC game "X3: Terran Conflict" (publisher: Koch Media). Design and implementation of AI/motion routines for non-player characters (bots)

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Physics

• Doctoral program in Physics, applications in Mechanical Engineering • Focus on software engineering, analytical and computational.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science, 1.0 (With Distinction, Top Of Class)

• Applied Computer Science, specialization in scientific computing

Master Of Science - Ms, Physics, 1.0 (With Distinction, Top 5%)

• Focus on computational physics and complex systems • Combined master thesis in physics and computer science on simulation of particle.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Physics, 1.2 (With Distinction, Top 5%)

• Focus on theoretical and computational physics • Bachelor thesis on computational modeling of surface ablation in solids

Abitur (University Entrance Diploma), 1.0 (Top Of Class)

• Advanced level courses in Physics, Mathematics, English • Spending semester abroad in Montgomery High School, Skillman, NJ, USA