A pdf version of my CV can be downloaded from here.
Packing your luggage before you go on holidays or taking a jammed packed bus to work are just two occurrences of packing problems in our everyday life. During my PhD at Trinity College Dublin, funded by the Irish Research Council, I focussed on such packing problems by employing optimisation algorithms.
Previously, I pursuit a three-year Bachelor followed by a two-year Master in Physics at TU Dortmund, Germany. Throughout my studies, I gained teaching experience at Trinity College as well as TU Dortmund and worked as a summer student at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany.
I will finish my PhD by September 2019. So after that I am seeking a challenging job that fits my professional skills and personal interests.
- Experience
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Trinity College Dublin PhD Researcher – 10/2015-now
- Solving packing problems with optimisation algorithms in C/C++ or Python
- Web developer for Senior Tutor Service and Foams Group
- Lab demonstrator and tutor for 6 physics teaching labs and 7 mathematical lectures
- Supervisor of 4 undergraduate student projects
4 peer-reviewed publications and 9 posters/presentations
TU Dortmund Übungsgruppenleiter (Tutor) – 10/2013-09/2015
Tutored lectures from the Physics Department:- Computational physics
- Theoretical physics I
- Introduction to condensed matter
- Mathematical pre-lectures
Experience in public speaking and presentational skills
Forschungszentrum Jülich Summer student – 07/2014-10/2014
IHRS BioSoft Guest Student: Institute of Complex Systems 2
- Running simulations on Linux-based High Performance Computers
- Data analysis with Python
- Data visualisation with Matplotlib/Python
Research project: An active dumbbell in a mesoscopic hydrodynamic simulation
- Education
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Trinity College Dublin PhD Student – 10/2015-2019
PhD Student: Foams and Complex System Group, School of Physics
Working title: Models of wet foams and other systems of soft particlesTU Dortmund Undergrad and Postgrad student – 2010-2015
Master of Science in Physics: Overall grade 1.2
Master thesis: Hydrodynamic Interactions between Polymers in a Mesoscopic Simulation
Bachelor of Science in Physics: Overall grade 1.4
Bachelor thesis: Mulit-particle collision dynamics for simulating active particlesDon-Bosco Gymnasium Essen Secondary school – 2001-2010
Leaving certificate / Abitur: Overall grade 1.2
Northwest Rankin High School Exchange Year – 09/2007-07/2008
High School Year in Brandon, Mississippi, USA
- Awards
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IRC Postgraduate Scholarship10/2015-09/2019
Funding scheme: Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship
(215 awardees out of 1200 eligible applications) Project title: Models of wet foams and other systems of soft particlesPoster Prize at Cambridge University, UK 08/09/2017
Soft Matter Poster Prize at the 2nd Edwards Symposium: Challenges and Opportunities in Soft Matter (Poster)
- Certificates
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IELTS English Test10/03/2016
Overall Band Score: 7.5 / 9.0
CEFR Level: C1 - Conferences and Workshops
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Conferences
- WE-Heraeus Symposium: Science on the ISS, Bad Honnef (2018)
- 3rd Edwards Symposium, Cambridge (2018)
- Eufoam, Liege (2018)
- Flowing Matter, Lisbon (2018)
- 2nd Edwards Symposium, Cambridge (2017)
- PyCon Ireland, Dublin (2016)
- Eufoam, Dublin (2016)
Workshops
- CISM: Mechanics of Liquid and Solid Foams, Udine (2017)
- Workshop on Jamming and Granular Matter, London (2016)
- 46th IFF Spring School, Jülich (2015)
- 45th IFF Spring School, Jülich (2014)