Curriculum Vitae
I’m currently working at Social Protocols which I co-founded with Felix Dietze and Jonathan Warden. I’ll share more on that soon.
Data Scientist Link to heading
2022 Aug - 2023 Dec | Fabit GmbH
Berlin-based fintech startup +++ mission: help people become financially healthy +++ product: mobile app to keep track of expenses and budget money +++ my work: frontend (Dart/Flutter), backend (Spring/Kotlin), and database (PostgreSQL) development; built a semi-automated reporting infrastructure; analyze company data (R/tidyverse); built dashboards and visualizations (R/shiny/tidyverse)
Research Assistant Link to heading
2021 Feb - 2022 Jul | Human-Computer Interaction Center (RWTH Aachen University)
researched emergent phenomena in social systems +++ modelled opinion dynamics using agent-based simulation +++ mostly interested in the effects of online social networks on political polarization +++ some research on information visualization and scientometrics +++ list of papers I co-authored is available on Google Scholar
Data Science Intern Link to heading
2019 May - 2019 Aug | Optinoo GmbH
Berlin-based startup offering a platform to match job candidates and companies +++ my work: helped develop a matching algorithm to find best matches between candidates and companies on the basis of culture fit
Student Assistant Researcher Link to heading
2018 Feb - 2021 Feb | Human-Computer Interaction Center (RWTH Aachen University)
worked with the junior research group “Digitale Mündigkeit” (loosely translates to “digital citizenship”) +++ my work: built agent-based models, created publication-ready and interactive data visualizations, statistical analyses, built scientific software
Education Link to heading
M. Sc. Technical Communication (Computer Science) Link to heading
2018 Oct - 2020 Nov | RWTH Aachen University
Thesis: Modeling Change of Collective Behavior in Situations of Crisis: A Comparison of Health and Environmental Scenarios Using Agent-Based Simulation
The model is available here.
B. Sc. Technical Communication (Computer Science) Link to heading
2013 Oct - 2018 Sep | RWTH Aachen University
Thesis: The Influence of Decision Support Systems on User Performance in Complex Tasks