Curriculum Vitae

A full CV in pdf format can be found here (last updated 07/2024).  

Below are some highlights from my CV.

Academic Track

10/2023 Professor for 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 DFG Grant 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

2022 Hausdorff WorkshopSynergies 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

Teaching

2023-24 Lecture "Mathematical Foundations of Data Science", University of Würzburg, Germany

2022 Lecture "Introduction to Nonlinear Spectral Theory", University of Bonn, Germany

2022 Minicourse “Mathematical Foundations for Data Science”, Foundational Methods in Data Science Training School, Kigali, Rwanda

2021 Lecture "Mathematical Data Science 1", University of Erlangen, Germany

since 2020 Seminars on numerous topics from applied mathematics, Universities or Erlangen and Bonn, Germany

Reviewing Activities

I am associate editor for Advances in Continuous and Discrete Models: Theory and Applications and I have been reviewing for: