A week of radio interferometry in Socorro, New Mexico, alectures from Rick Perley among others, who also led the 30 km weekend hike to Magdalena Ridge Observatory. Plus a Very Large Array tour and good conversations with PhD students from around the world.
In January 2026, I performed Reflection by Hubert Hoche, a piece for solo marimba, with the Academic Orchestra of JMU Würzburg.
I attended the WE-Heraeus and NARIT Cosmology School 2025 in Chiang Mai, Thailand: two weeks of lectures, data analysis, and group projects on observational and theoretical cosmology.
The JIVE Summer School, held jointly in Dwingeloo, Netherlands, and Pretoria, South Africa, taught us the fundamentals of VLBI radio interferometry through calibrating and imaging our own EVN observation dataset.
Bachelor's in Aerospace Computer Science, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg. Thesis at the Chair of Astronomy (Prof. Matthias Kadler, Prof. Ingo Scholtes): searching for positronium recombination lines, a possible dark matter annihilation signature, with the Effelsberg 100m Telescope.
Over Christmas and New Year 2024/2025, I toured China with the Mozart Symphony Orchestra from Hannover, from Shanghai to smaller cities like Beihai and Longchang, nine venues in about two weeks.
An ERASMUS semester at NTNU in Trondheim, Norway: courses in Ethical Hacking, Space Technology, Game+, and Norwegian, plus a winter of snow, log cabins and frozen lakes.
With WüSpace, we built our own instrumentation for a weather balloon, measuring pressure, temperature, and humidity, and mounted a camera to film the ascent.
I graduated from Helmholtz-Gymnasium Karlsruhe with my Abitur. In my final school years, physics and computer science became my main interests, which is what brought me to Aerospace Computer Science in Würzburg.
Solo performance of Ney Rosauro’s Concerto for Timpani at Music School Ettlingen.
In October 2018, I toured Namibia with the Helmholtz Gymnasium Orchestra, from Windhoek across the country to Etosha National Park, Swakopmund, Kolmanskop, and Lüderitz, staying with host families along the way.
I spent five months as an exchange student at Kingswood College in Makhanda, South Africa, playing in the Concert Band and touring with them to Botswana and Zimbabwe.
In October 2017, I toured the US with the Big Band of Helmholtz Gymnasium, from Philadelphia to New York, with concerts along the way and some time to explore New York at the end.