Curriculum Vitae
Education
- Ph.D. in Mathematical Physics2024 – presentUC Berkeley
- M.Sc. in Pure Mathematics2023Sorbonne Université
- M.Sc. in Theoretical Physics2022École Normale Supérieure de Paris
- B.Sc. in Physics2020Jacobs University Bremen (now Constructor University)
Visiting Positions
- Perimeter Institute, Visitor (hosted by Lucien Hardy), Oct. 2025
- Isaac Newton Institute (Cambridge), Participant (Number Theory × Physics Program), Aug. 2022
- Uppsala University, Visiting Researcher (Schlotterer Group), Spring 2022
- McGill University, Visiting Student (Coish Group), Fall 2019
Work Experience
- Deep Learning Researcher, SpaceAble (freelance), Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
- Leveraged physics-inspired machine learning algorithms to predict low-earth satellite orbits every 10 mins. Developed advanced collision avoidance systems from such orbit predictions.
- Management Consulting Intern, Kearney, Jul 2021 - Aug 2021
- Responsible for a complete strategic emissions model (next decade) for a €1.6B revenue gas retail client.
Research Grants
- NSF CIQC Seed Funding, NSF Challenge Institute for Quantum Computation 2025–2026
ERP-Fellowship, German Academic Scholarship Found. (SdV) 2023–2024
The European Recovery Program (ERP), commonly known as the Marshall Plan, channeled more than $13 billion of US aid into rebuilding post-war Western Europe. Older than even the German constitution, the initiative helped rebuild destroyed regions, modernize industry, and promote transatlantic trade. It aimed to foster peace through prosperity and strong economic ties, both within Europe and with the US. The German ERP fund endures today through careful spending as interest-reduced loans administered by the federal government. More than €1 million from the annual federal budget now support around 40 advanced German graduate students in the US through two programs.
The ERP Fellowship selects about 14 new scholars each year in the sciences, humanities, law, and business at universities across the United States. Similarly, the McCloy Fellowship—named after John J. McCloy, the first U.S. High Commissioner for West Germany from 1949 until 1952—selects six new scholars annually in public policy, public health, and public administration at Harvard Kennedy School.
Together, these programs continue building deep mutual understanding across the Atlantic. In a world where societies on either side are growing increasingly divided and polarized, this partnership demands constant, deliberate cultivation. As ERP Scholars in the United States, we seek to contribute our small share towards maintaining our transatlantic friendship.
- Europe-Grant, German Research Foundation (DFG) 2018–2019
Scholarships
- Allan and Kathleen Rosevear Gateway Fellow, International House at UC Berkeley 2025–2026
- Master’s Student Laureate, Paris Graduate School for Mathematical Sciences 2022–2023
- Kovalevskaya Grant for ICM 2022 (virtual), Société mathématique de France Fall 2022
- Erasmus+ Scholarship, France–Sweden Exchange Spring 2022
- Master’s Student Fellow, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) 2021–2022
- Laboratoire d’Excellence de l’ENS-ICFP, ENS Physics Department 2020–2022
- Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (top 0.5%) 2017–2023
- Merit Scholarship (highest award), Jacobs University Bremen 2017–2020
Awards
- Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley May 2025
- 3rd Place, PLANCKS Intl. Theoretical Physics Competition (Milano, Italy) May 2023
- 1st Place, QuantX Quantum Hackathon (Paris, France) Oct. 2021
- 70th and 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (Young Scientist) 2021 & 2024
(In Lindau, I also helped draft the Alumni Mainau Declaration.) - 7th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (Young Researcher) Sep. 2019
- President’s List (top 10%), Jacobs University Bremen 2020
- 2nd Place, Science Slam (Bremen, Germany) Nov. 2019
- 1st Prize for an Extraordinary Project, Jugend forscht May 2018
(National Science Fair Germany: best in 6,500 projects across all disciplines)
Service
- Peer Review
- MathSciNet, American Mathematical Society
- M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust
- Graduate Program Review Committee (2024–2026), UC Berkeley
- Member of the Academic Senate (2019–2020), Jacobs University Bremen
Past Students
- Mathematics Directed Reading Program (2024–)
- Research Supervision (2020–2023)
- Research Mentorship