Since 2000, my free-time is mostly dominated by one thing: Water Polo. After a long tenure as the goalkeeper for teams in the first and second division in Germany, my athletic journey lead me to the Texas Division, where I also took over the job as coach for the Men's and the Women's team in 2019. Sparkling and shining with quality instead of numbers, Rice University's water polo team dominated most of the other schools in Texas and Louisiana and only fell short to Texas A&M in the Semi-final of the Texas Championship 2021 and to University of Texas in 2022. Still in the rebuilding process, Rice's women's water polo team is looking to hold its ground in the 2023 spring season which features the largest  starting field in recent Texas water polo history.

In late 2020, my former colleagues at TWS Partners established the podcast "Game Changer" to talk about interesting insights from the world of Game Theory and Microeconomics. On April 13, I was invited to talk about the impact of an increasing share of wind and solar in the power market and the fundamental change in market dynamics due to their low marginal operating but high fixed costs. In this sense, they are true game changers. 

Before moving to the U.S. and coming to Rice University, I was a passionate Science Slammer. During a Science Slam, scientists try to educate and entertain the audience with their discoveries and research topics. I started in 2013 with a talk about my Bachelor Thesis on Theta Series and the Riehmann mapping theorem (and connected it with women, hence the title "Frauentheorie"). Once I left Algebra and turned my research focus on game theory, I started talking about different aspects of human interaction, backed up by a thorough game theoretical analysis.