Curriculum Vitae

A full CV in pdf format can be found here (last updated 06/2025).  

Below are some highlights from my CV.

Academic Track

10/2023 Professor of Mathematics at the University of Würzburg, Germany

03/2023 Junior research group leader at MATH+, Berlin, Germany

06/2021 Postdoc at the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany

09/20 PhD in Mathematics, University of Erlangen, Germany,
Thesis: Nonlinear Spectral Analysis with Variational Methods,
Advisor: Martin Burger,
Grade: summa cum laude

11/2017       M.Sc. in Mathematics, University of Erlangen, Germany
Grade: 1.0

01/2016 B.Sc. in Mathematics, University of Erlangen, Germany
Grade: 1.5

06/2012 Abitur, Ostendorfer-Gymnasium Neumarkt i.d.OPf., Germany
Grade: 1.0

Honors and Grants

2024 BMBF funded collaborative research project: COMFORT: Compression Methods for Robustness and Transferability.
Funding: 1,98 Mio €.

2024 DFG Grant  within the SPP2298: GeoMAR: Geometric Methods for Adversarial Robustness.
Funding: 252,174 €.

2022 Argelander Starter-Kit Grant awarded by the University of Bonn. Topic: Adversarial Robustness in Semi-Supervised Learning

2022 Selected participant at the AMS Mathematics Research Community on “Data Science at the Crossroads of Analysis, Geometry, and Topology”

2022 Junior Fellowship of the Institut Mittag–Leffler

2021 Visiting postdoc at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, University of Berkeley, USA

2020 Biennial French-German Mathematics in Imaging PhD Prize, sponsored by GdR CNRS MIA and Fraunhofer ITWM

Organization of Scientific Events

2025 Workshop "Mathematical Analysis of Adversarial Machine Learning" at Casa Matematicá Oaxaca, Mexico

2025 Workshop "Synergies of Machine Learning and Numerics" at Osaka University Nakanoshima Center, Japan

2025 Member of the organizing committee of MIA'25 in Paris

2022 Hausdorff Workshop "Synergies between Data Science and PDE Analysis" at Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany

2020 - 2021 Online seminar series "Mathematics of Deep Learning", University of Erlangen, Germany

2020 Online seminar series "One World Seminar Mathematics of Arbitrary Data Sources"

since 2019 Minisymposia at numerous international conferences