On this page, you can find a short, informal CV of myself. A detailed CV (with internships, academical and personal activities, talks, publications and certificates) is available on a short term notice both in English and German language.

I was born in Bonn (Germany) in February 1984, and to stay nearby until the end of elementary school. After elementary, I moved to Brussels for three years in 1994, visiting the International German School in Brussels. 1997, I moved back to Meckenheim (Germany) where I received my university-entrance diploma in 2003.

When I was very young, I developed a strong passion for computer techniques, so that my parents gave an Amiga 500 to me at my 7th birthday. On this machine, I started my first, simple minded programming trials.

Fall 2003 / 2004. I started my computer science studies in the winter term 2003/2004 at the University of Bonn, Germany. Shortly after the beginning of my studies, I developed a strong passion for Artificial Life, neurocomputation, computational geometry and multi agent simulation related topics, which I have been pursuing ever since.

Beginning of 2004 until Spring 2007. During the progress of my studies, I began to focus on artificial life and neurocomputation related topics, later on simulation and computational geometry ones. Furthermore, I was elected part of the student representatives of the Department of Computer Science, University of Bonn from 2005 - 2008, as well as collegiate spokesman in either of the directorate, the board of examiners, and the tuition fee committee. From 2006 to 2008 I was elected head of the student representatives.

Alongside, my professional experience grew as from 2005 on when I served as a student assistant and tought exercise courses in the context of the lectures “Neural Networks” and “Artificial Life” at the Department of Computer Science, Division of Neurocomputation, University of Bonn. Later, from 2008 on, I proceeded at the Autonomous Intelligent Systems Division.

Summer 2007. My studies were interrupted by an invitation to an individual research fellowship granted by the Computational Synthesis Laboratories at Cornell University, Ithaca, USA, which researches processes that allow complex high-level systems to arise from low-level building blocks. Residing at this place, I conducted research in the fields of swarm robotics and design automation - namely teaching swarmers which are disabled to steer by themselves, to evolve precise navigational capabilities as a swarm. The stay at the CCSL strain hardened and consolidated my fascination and passion for biology inspired automated design of complex systems, as well as multi agent simulations.

Fall 2007 / 2008. After returning to Bonn, I continued my suspended activities like teaching exercise courses and serving as student representative. I proceeded to finish my studies and chose biology as subsidiary subject.

Spring 2009. I ended my Studies in March 2009 after the 10th term, when I recieved my MS degree in Computer Science (Dipl.-Inform.) from the University of Bonn. For my diploma thesis (german equivalent to master's thesis) I conducted research in the area of network-distributed evolutionary design of biology-inspired swarm behavior. A few days after presenting my Thesis, I was hired as a scientific assistant at the Division of Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Department of Computer Science, Bonn, then participating at the RoboCup German Open and the RoboCup World Championchips 2009. Now, I am going to pursue PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in an interdisciplinary way, associated with the DFG Bionics Graduate Program in Bonn.

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I am a passionate cineast and very interested in movie scores. As an activity, which is both related and unrelated to my scientific works, I'd like to name writing. Unrelated, because I recognize the times I write as recreation, regardless the particular topics I write about. Related, because my manuscript "A brief Introduction of Neural Networks" grew in this way. The many mails and other support I received from my readers made me experience how fulfilling it can be to get feedback from people who read what I write.

As a further activity, I'd like to name keeping Ants (unfortunately only available in german) – which seems to suggest itself for a person interested in collective behavior. Anyway, it is really recreative to build a habitat for the ants, then watch the colony grow. Finally, I like to photograph, especially long time exposures at dawn, which show intense colors (see, for example, Nachtsicht (nightwatch)).