CV
I'm a program-specific researcher (post doc) at ASHBi, KUIAS, Kyoto University in Seirin-Lee's lab. I studied mathematics at TU Kaiserslautern with stays at TU Delft and The University of Auckland, and obtained my PhD at University of Vienna in Sara Merino-Aceituno's group.
Detailed CV
A detailed version of my CV can be found here: CV.pdf.
Short CV
Current affiliation
| 2023 – now | Post doc at Kyoto University Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (ASHBi), KUIAS |
Education
| 2019 – now | PhD candidate at University of Vienna |
| 2018 – 2019 | Teaching assistant at TU Kaiserslautern |
| 2018 (2 months) | Academic visit at Haussdorf Center of Mathematics Bonn |
| 2018 (4 months) | Academic visit at The University of Auckland |
| 2016 (6 months) | ERASMUS at TU Delft |
| 2013 – 2018 | B.Sc. & M.Sc. in Mathematics at TU Kaiserslautern |
Teaching and work experience (selection)
| 2021 – 2022 | Programming crash courses in Julia and Python for PhD students in Vienna |
| 2014 – 2016 | Tutor at TU Kaiserslautern (8 courses), including subjects like Analysis for enginieers Linear algebra and analysis I + II Numerical methods for linear algebra and analysis |
| 2012 – 2016 | Programming assistent at Fraunhofer ITWM |
Skills
| Programming | Over 10 years of experience. Advanced skills in Julia, C++, Python, Matlab, JavaScript. Creator of MyPaintEdSlides. |
Grants, prices and scholarships
| 2024 – 2027 | Kakenhi: Early-Career Scientists, PI (total: 2.000k JPY ~ 12.000€) |
| 2023 – 2025 | ASHBi Fusion Research Grant, Co-PI (total: 5.000k JPY ~ 30.000€) |
| 2021 | EMBO scientific exchange grant for academic visit in Toulouse |
| 2018 | DAAD-PROMOS scholarship for academic visit in Auckland |
| 2017 | Main price on DMV students conference 2017 for academic visit to Bonn |
| 2016 – 2018 | Felix-Klein scholarship (Fraunhofer ITWM Kaiserslautern) |
| 2014 – 2016 | Deutschlandstipendium (scholarship, partially sponsored by cognizant) |
See also my scientific activities page and research projects page.
Talks and slides
| 09/2025 | Modeling the Directionality of Cell Migration in Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transitions with Non-Smooth Dynamical Systems | NCTS Webinar on Nonlinear Evolutionary Dynamics |
| 07/2025 | Position-based Dynamics for Multicellular Systems with Adhesion Memory | ACMB-JSMB 2025 (Kyoto) |
| 01/2025 | Emergence of digit-like structures through mechanical instabilities: A hybrid computational and experimental study | ASHBi Retreat 2025 (Shiga) |
| 09/2024 | 200 years old and still relevant: The Gauss-Seidel principle | Lab Summer Conference 2024 (Kyoto) |
| 09/2024 | Modelling heterogeneity of EMT to identify main drivers of basal extrusion | The 1st ASHBi-KAIST Joint Workshop (Kyoto) |
| 07/2024 | Agent-based modelling of heterogeneous EMT scenarios | Annual Meeting ESMTB (Toledo) |
| 07/2024 | A live coding music performance with Julia (Video) | JuliaCon 2024 (Eindhoven) |
| 07/2024 | Tools for agent-based modelling in developmental biology (Video) | JuliaCon 2024 (Eindhoven) |
| 07/2024 | Position-based dynamics as a numerical tool for agent-based cell migration models of dense populations | KSMB-SMB 2024 (SEOUL) |
| 03/2024 | Position-based dynamics: Convergence theory andapplications to agent-based models | PDE seminar (Vienna) |
| 03/2024 | Towards kinetic theory for multi-scale muscle models | Inria (Paris) |
| 08/2023 | Convergence of position based dynamics for first-order particle systems with volume exclusion | ICIAM 2023 (Tokyo) |
| 12/2022 | Testing in scientific computing | Vienna |
| 12/2022 | A short introduction to git | Vienna |
| 11/2021 | Position-based dynamics for ODEs with inequality constraints | PDE afternoon (Vienna) |
| 05/2020 | Partially kinetic systems (aka 'particles on rails') | Kinetic Theory Coffee Break (online) |
| 06/2019 | Short introduction to finite element exterior calculus | PhD seminar (Kaiserslautern) |
| 03/2019 | Partially mesoscopic and Lagrangian systems | DESCRIPTOR (Paderborn) |
| 02/2019 | Lagrangian perspective on skeletal muscle models | GAMM, 90th Annual Meeting (Vienna) |
| 10/2018 | Fiber based muscle simulation (master's thesis) | Hausdorff Center of Mathematics (Bonn) |
| 07/2018 | Tangent spaces | Student-Talk (Kaiserslautern) |
| 06/2018 | Simulation of skeletal muscle tissue with fiber-based dynamics | Applied Math Seminar (Kaiserslautern) |
| 05/2018 | Parameter identification in ODE models | The University of Auckland |
| 04/2018 | Symplectic numerical integration | PhD seminar (Auckland) |
| 09/2017 | Symplectic molecular dynamics | 19th ÖMG Meeting and Annual DMV Meeting (Salzburg) |
| 01/2017 | Optimization of B-Spline Parametrizations using G+SMo and IPOPT | G+SMo Developer Days (TU Delft) |
Organisation
I organised (together with others) various events during my time as speaker of the Vienna School of Mathematics (VSM) and earlier as member of the student council at TU Kaiserslautern.
| 2023 | Workshop: Development across Scale 2023 (two days) | |
| 2022 | VSM Mini-Course on String Theory by Pavel Safronov (one week) | |
| 2021 | VSM workshop: A PhD in mathematics – career possibilities & gender aspects (one day) | |
| 2017 – 2019 | Student Talks (initiator of series of extracurricular talks at TU Kaiserslautern) |
Software packages
I am currently making various tools for agent-based modelling available as Julia packages.
- SpatialHashTables.jl: A Julia package for spatial hashing of particles (in 2D and 3D). This allows fast collision detection even is unbounded domains.
- BoundedDegreeGraphs.jl: A Julia package for graphs with bounded degree, with focus on allocation free operations commonly used in agent-based modelling.
Outreach
| 22/5/2022 | Lange Nacht der Wissenschaft (long night of science) | Vienna |
Me during my talk about “studying mathematics at TU Kaiserslautern” on the graduation ceremony 2019.