Curriculum Vitae
IoT Lead, Software- and Data-EngineerApr. 2019 - present |
Alcemy GmbH, Berlin, Germany Predictive quality control for cement and concrete production. Alcemy's goal is to cut the CO2 footprint of concrete by 30%. 2019 - 2020: Fullstack engineer on cement QA product; Backend, Frontend, Data Engineering, User Research and User Testing 2021: First engineer on concrete QA product; Data Engineering 2022: Lead Iot engineer on concrete QA product; Data Engineering |
EntrepreneurMay. 2021 - present |
Aufwind Tholen GmbH, Gangelt, Germany Renewable energy. Aufwind Tholen aims to expand its operations from wind energy alone to solar and wind combined with supply-driven energy consumption. |
Post-Doc Research FellowOct. 2017 - Mar. 2019 |
DESY Hamburg, Germany Selected for the competitive DESY fellowship in High-Energy Physics. Scientific work on the Higgs boson and b quark tagging with experimental data from the CERN LHC. |
EF Cohort MemberOct. 2018 - Dec. 2018 |
Entrepreneur First (EF), Berlin, Germany Awarded competitive stipend for 14-week start-up program. EF funds individuals to build companies from scratch, develop ideas, and accelerate through fundraising. |
DoctorateOct. 2013 - June 2017 |
University of Hamburg, Germany Thesis: "Search for Single Production of a Heavy Vector-Like Top Quark Partner Decaying to a Higgs Boson and a Top Quark at CMS", Supervisor: Dr. Alexander Schmidt Specialization: High energy physics |
Research associateNov. 2012 - Sep. 2013 |
RWTH Aachen University, Germany Department of Physics IIIB |
M.Sc. in PhysicsOct. 2010 - Oct. 2012 |
RWTH Aachen University, Germany Thesis: "Study of the Inclusive Top-pair + Gamma Cross Section with the CMS Experiment", Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Achim Stahl Specialization: Astro- and particle physics (exp.) / Relativity and cosmology (theo.) |
Research assistantApr. 2010 - May. 2011 |
RWTH Aachen University, Germany Department of Physics IB |
B.Sc. in PhysicsOct. 2006 - Sep. 2010 |
RWTH Aachen University, Germany Thesis: "The Magnet of the PERDaix Experiment", Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Schael |
Abitur (A-level)June 2006 |
Euregio-Kolleg Würselen (secondary school), Würselen, Germany Majors: English and Arts |
Journeyman cookAug 1999 - Aug 2002 |
Gangelter Einrichtungen Maria Hilf, Gangelt, Germany |
Selected conference presentations
2018 August | DESY colloquium, Observation of Higgs boson decay to bottom quarks, Oral presentation (45 min.), DESY, Hamburg, Germany |
2017 March | La Thuile 2017 (Young Scientist Forum), Search for Single Production of a Vector-Like T Quark Decaying into a Top Quark and a Higgs Boson, Oral presentation (12 min.), La Thuile, Aosta Valley, Italy |
2017 February | 129th LHCC Meeting, Search for single production of a heavy vector-like T quark decaying to a Higgs boson and a top quark, Poster presentation, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland |
2016 November | 10th Annual Meeting of the Helmholtz Alliance "Physics at the Terascale", Vector-like quark searches in CMS, Oral presentation (20 min.), DESY, Hamburg, Germany |
2016 July | SUSY 2016, Search for fermionic top partners at CMS, Oral presentation (20 min.), Melbourne, Australia |
2014 July | ICHEP 2014, Measurement of the Inclusive Top-Quark Pair + Photon Production Cross Section, Poster presentation, Valencia, Spain |
2014 February | Lake Louise Winter Institute 2014, Measurement of top quark pair production in association with vector bosons, Oral presentation (15 min.), Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada |
Selected publications in high-energy physics
2018 |
Observation of Higgs boson decay to bottom quarks, CMS Collaboration, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.121801 |
2016(leading role) |
Search for single production of a heavy vector-like T quark decaying to a Higgs boson and a top quark with a lepton and jets in the final state, CMS Collaboration, DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2017.05.019 |
2016 |
Measurement of the Inclusive Top-Quark Pair + Photon Production Cross Section, Heiner Tholen, for the CMS Collaboration, Nucl.Part.Phys.Proc. 273-275 (2016) 2796-2798 DOI:10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2015.10.067 |
2014(leading role) |
Measurement of the inclusive top-quark pair + photon production cross section in the muon + jets channel in pp collisions at 8 TeV, CMS Collaboration, CMS-PAS-TOP-13-011 (2014) |
2012 |
The PERDaix Detector, A. Bachlechner, B. Beischer, R. Greim and others, Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A695 (2012) 91-95, DOI:10.1016/j.nima.2011.12.002 |
2011 |
Contribution to Upgrade of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) for long term operation on the International Space Station (ISS), K. Lübelsmeyer, A. Schultz von Dratzig, M. Wlochal and others, Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A654 (2011) 639-648, DOI:10.1016/j.nima.2011.06.051 |
Selected academic trainings
Sep. 2016 |
Herbstschule Maria Laach, Benediktinerabtei Maria Laach, Maria Laach, Germany Keywords: High energy physics, Standard Model of Particle physics, Feynman diagrams, LHC |
Sep. 2015 |
Cern School of Computing (CSC), Kavala Institute of Technology, Kavala, Greece Keywords: Data management, security, networking, performance tuning, parallelization, data analysis. 36/36 points in final examination (announcement) |
Aug. 2014 |
Joint Belgian Dutch German Graduate School, Rolduc Abbey, Kerkrade, The Netherlands Keywords: Quantum Field Theory, QCD, Physics beyond the standard model, cosmology, Higgs, neutrinos |
Apr. 2012 |
Statistics School, DESY, Hamburg, Germany Keywords: Parameter estimation/fitting, Limit determination, Data unfolding, RooFit/RooStats |
March 2012 |
Monte Carlo School, DESY, Hamburg, Germany Keywords: Monte Carlo methods, Parton showers, Higgs Physics, Physics beyond the Standard Model |
Selected teaching experiences
TutorOct. 2016 - Feb. 2017 |
Physics II lecture Dep. of exp. Phys., University of Hamburg, Germany Electro-dynamics and optics, experimental and theoretical |
LecturerJan. 2016 |
CMS Data Analysis School (CMSDAS) Fermilab, Batavia IL, U.S.A. Lectures and exercises on collision event visualization and data analysis with top quark tagging |
(Assistant) lecturerJul. 2015Dec. 2012 Jun. 2012 |
Physics analysis software toolkit (PAT) tutorials CMS CERN, Geneva, Switzerland Lectures and exercises on the Particle flow algorithm (PF) and analysis with the iPython shell in CMSSW |
TutorOct. 2011 - Feb. 2012 |
Introduction to Experimental Particle Physics lecture Dep. of Phys. IIIB, RWTH Aachen University, Germany |
Teaching assistantOct. 2010 - Feb. 2011 |
Physics for Engineering Students Dep. of Phys. IB, RWTH Aachen University, Germany |
Student communication trainerMay. 2009 - Feb. 2012 |
Project: "TutorInnengruppe (TG): Training for teaching assistants and freshman tutors" Institute Cluster IMA/ZLW & IfU, RWTH Aachen University, Germany |
Language and technical skill
Language education
German | Mother tongue |
English |
9 years in secondary school, including 2 years advanced course Strong proficiency in scientific context |
French |
2 years in secondary school Levels A5+6 at RWTH Aachen University |
Spanish |
Language course at the University of Hamburg Level A2.1 |
Technical skill
Programming languages |
Python, C/C++, HTML & Java/script, SQL Entry level: Haskell, Rust, Go |
Statistical tools | Theta, TMVA, PyMC, ROOFIT, ROOSTAT |
Other analysis software | ROOT, SciPy, pandas, Mathematica, Maple, Matlab |
Mechanical skill | Assembly, electronics, soldering, welding |
Public profiles
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