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PAST EVENTS

CV

2018—present

Principal Scientist, Computational Medicine and Health

Renal Research Institute · Fresenius Medical Care, Global Medical Office


Senior Scientist (2020—2023)
Scientist (2018—2020)

Bad Homburg, Germany

2025—present

Adjunct Professor

Pennington Biomedical Research Center

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

2015—2018

Postdoctoral Research Associate

University of Cambridge · Cavendish Laboratory and Gurdon Institute
Group of Prof
Ben Simons


Organiser (2015—2018) and Speaker (2017)

Theory of Living Matter Group

Cambridge, United Kingdom

2018—2024

Visiting Scientist
University of Cambridge
Cavendish Laboratory

Cambridge, United Kingdom

2011—2014

Doctoral studies in Theoretical Physics

Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
Group of Prof
Frank Jülicher

Thesis: Genetic oscillations and vertebrate embryonic development
(summa cum laude)

Dresden, Germany

2004—2010

Physics studies

University of Heidelberg (2004—2010) and KTH Stockholm (2007)
Thesis topic: Condensed matter quantum field theory
(Advisor: Prof
Manfred Salmhofer)

Heidelberg, Germany

2009—2010

Administrative Coordinator
Research Unit FOR723 of the
German Research Foundation

Heidelberg, Germany

ACADEMIC SERVICES

Co-Initiator and Organiser of the “Patterns Across Scales in Living Systems” symposium series


Referee for peer-reviewed journals in physics and biology

TEACHING

01/2025 and 01/2024
Introduction to Systems Biology: Blood and Feedbacks (w/ Pablo Sartori)
Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine, Portugal

12/2014
“Synchronization: Embryonic Development to Electronic Networks” (w/ Lucas Wetzel)
TU Dresden, Germany

11/2013
Advisor of predoc practical courses
International Max Planck Research School MCBB, Germany

06—09/2012
Mentor for a Bachelor's thesis in Theoretical Physics
TU Dresden, Germany

10/2011—01/2012
Problem class tutor in calculational methods in Physics
TU Dresden, Germany

11/2011
Advisor of predoc practical courses
International Max Planck Research School MCBB, Germany

04—07/2011
Lab course advisor for Bachelor students in Physics
TU Dresden, Germany

MEMBERSHIPS

2003—present
Member of the German Physical Society (DPG)

2023—present
Member of the European Renal Association

2025—present
Member of the National Coalition of Independent Scholars (NCIS)

2019—present
Supporting member of the Frankfurter Kunstverein e.V.

2011—2023
Active member of the UNICEF Workgroup Dresden, Germany

2009—2010
Organising member of the Delta Philosophers’ Club, Heidelberg, Germany

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