CV

My academic journey

  • Education

    • Max-Planck-Institut für Physik: PhD (2025-now)
    • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München & TU München: M.Sc. Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (2022-2025)
      Grade: 1.0 (high distinction)
      Thesis: Bootstrapping Cosmological In-in Correlators at Loop Order
    • TU Dresden: B.Sc. Physics (2019-2022)
      Grade: 1.0 (high distinction)
      Thesis: Interaction of Gravitational Waves with Bose-Einstein Condensates
    • Gymnasium Dresden-Bühlau: Abitur (2011-2019)
      Grade: 1.0 / 897 points (high distinction)
  • Experience

    • Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (since 2025)
      PhD Researcher in the Quantum Field Theory group of Johannes Henn
    • LMU Munich (2024-2025)
      Master thesis at the Chair of Cosmology in the group of Ivo Sachs
      "Bootstrapping cosmological correlators at loop order"
    • Sepal AI (2024-2025)
      Independent consultant, working on LLM training data based on physics olympiad problems
    • TU Dresden (2021-2022)
      Research project at the Chair of Computational Physics in the group of Roland Ketzmerick
      "Fractal spectra and quantum dynamics of partially open chaotic systems"
    • Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf (2022)
      Bachelor thesis at the Departement of Theoretical Physics in the group of Ralf Schützhold
      "Interaction of gravitational waves with Bose-Einstein condensates"
    • hrd.consulting (2016-2017)
      Summer student job on data modelling and data management, working on the EU project INSPIRE (Infrastructure for spatial information in Europe)
    • Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf (2016)
      Student internship at the Institute of Ion Beam Physics
  • Selected Awards and Achievements

    • PLANCKS (Physics League Across Numerous Countries for Kick-ass Students):
      International team competition in theoretical physics for university students with approximately 50 participating teams each year from all over the world.
      3rd place 2024 (Dublin)
      6th place 2023 (Milan)
      2nd place 2022 (Munich)
      2nd place 2021 (Porto)
      8th place 2020 (London)
    • DOPPLERS (Deutsche Olympiade im Physik-Probleme-Lösen Eifrig Rätselnder Studierender):
      German preliminary competition for PLANCKS with approximately 25-30 teams participating each year
      1st place 2024, 1st place 2023, 2nd place 2022, 2nd place 2021, 2nd place 2020
    • International Physics Olympiad 2019 (Tel Aviv, Israel)
      Silver Medal
    • International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2019 (Keszthely, Hungary)
      Silver Medal
    • European Physics Olympiad 2018 (Dolgoprudny, Russia)
      Bronze Medal

    Scholarships

    • Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (2019-2025)
    • Glemser Stiftung for Future Excellency (since 2019)
    • e-fellows.net (2022-2025)