1995-2002

Carl-von-Ossietzky-Gymnasium in Berlin (HC82+M3 Berlin, Germany). We could choose two main subjects for in-depth study, mine were Biology and Physics.

2002–2008

Studied Physics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The Science Campus is in Berlin-Adlershof (CGMH+4V Berlin, Germany). There I obtained my Diploma (grade: good).

2009-2016

Doctoral studies at the SimTech Graduate School, within the University of Stuttgart. I worked as a teaching assistent and did research in the area of systems biology within the Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control. I obtained the title of Doktor der Ingenieurwissenschaften (Dr.-Ing.), which is roughly equivalent to a PhD.

2016-2020

Postdoctoral researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, school of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), CST department. I continued to work on the topic of systems biology and simulations.

2020, current

I work as research specialist at Karolinska Institutet, in the Science for Life Laboratory, Solna (922F+59 Solna).

These are some of the tasks, duties, and projects I was involved in:

2007–2009

During my studies at Humboldt University, I was a student-assistent at the Konrad Zuse Institute, Berlin. I worked in the department for high performance computing. My tasks included scripting, testing of software, and hardware setups. One example is a Gentoo GNU/Linux machine that converts incoming email to text messages (SMS) to inform staff of error mesages from the compute cluster (while not at their desks). This involved Perl and Bash scripting as well as procmail configuration.

2009–2014

After graduation from Humboldt University, I began work as doctoral student and teaching assistent (TA) at the Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control (IST). My responsibilities included:

• TA for the course dynamics of biological systems (about nonlinear dynamics); TAs design exercise problems, exam problems, and lead the in-person exercise groups.
• TA for the course statistical learning and stochastic control; making small statistics demonstrations in R
• Administration of a small simulation machine (Gentoo, GNU Linux) for the systems biology group
• I adminstered the group's library (scientific literature), ordering books, loaning books to students.
• supervision of student theses; this is a manuscript that students write before a master's thesis or diploma thesis.
• I built a webpage (using a template) for a colloquium at the institute: a registration mechanism, and the program of the event

2009–2015

As a doctoral candidate, I contributed to articles in proceedings of conferences, made posters, held presentations (as all PhD students do).

2012

In summer 2012 I was a visiting researcher at University College London (UCL, Statistics Department). There I began contributing to a c library dedicated to Markov chain Monte Carlo. I worked on this library and built an MCMC sampler with it. Lessons from working on this fueled our work on the UQSA r-package.

2019–2022

At KTH I continued to assist in teaching as a postdoc. I contributed to the course Applied Programming and Computer Science for physicists

The language I have enjoyed working with the most is C, with Makefiles as build system. No cmake, no autotools.

I am most proficient with:

• C and Makefile (mostly GNU Make)
• bash, any POSIX shell and all of the utilities asociated with shell scripting
• R
• GNU Octave (and by extension matlab)

Here are more details about programming languages: programming languages

I speak these languages:

• English (pretty well)
• German (like a native)
• Russian (with a german accent, and slowly), but I understand everything (probably).

By now I understand a bit of Swedish, but learning Swedish is is a huge TODO item for me.

I have also taken part in many SeRC annual meetings, sometimes as a member, sometimes as one of the organizers.

On orcid, you'll find a list of my publications.