I am a HFSP Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech in the lab of Victoria Orphan, where I study anaerobic methane metabolism in microbial consortia using a combination of theory and experiments. I am a mathematician by training and received a Ph.D. from the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich in 2023 under the supervision of Michael Manhart, now at Rutgers University.


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EMPLOYMENT

07/2024-, Post-doctoral fellow, California Institute of Technology
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Victoria Orphan

01/2024 - 06/2024, Post-doctoral fellow, Rutgers University
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Manhart


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EDUCATION

2023, Ph.D. Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Manhart
Thesis: “Microbial Growth as a Function of the Environment: Nutrient Limitation, Selection Pressures and Community Interaction”

2019, M.S. Mathematics, University of Bonn
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Anton Bovier
Thesis: “Spatially Structured Individual-Based Stochastic Models of Adaptive Dynamics”

2016, B.S. Mathematics, RWTH Aachen University
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Erhard Cramer
Thesis: “The Expectation-Maximization Algorithm with Applications to Progressive Censoring”

2015, B.S. Physics, RWTH Aachen University
Advisor: Dr. Oleg Petracic
Thesis: “Characterization and Fabrication of 3D-Supercrystals from Magnetic Nanoparticles”


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UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

2016/6 - 2016/8: DAAD Rise Research Internship
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Frithjof Lutscher
Location: University of Ottawa, Canada
Topic: Modeling the spatial spread of ecosystem engineers using partial differential equations.

2016/3 - 2016/5: RWTH Undergraduate Research Internship
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Berres
Location: Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile
Topic: Numerical methods for simulating forest fires in the Araucania region.


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PUBLICATIONS

For a list of my publications, please see my profile on Google Scholar.