OUTREACH AND EVENTS
MUSIC
ABOUT
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)
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
Co-Initiator and Organiser of the “Patterns Across Scales in Living Systems” symposium series
Referee for peer-reviewed journals in physics and biology
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
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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