Senior Data Scientist & AI Advisor

My Role at DBFZ & KIDA At the German Biomass Research Centre (DBFZ), I worked at the interface of applied data science, machine learning, and research infrastructure, including contributions to the interdisciplinary KIDA project. My focus was to help research teams translate complex data and computational questions into usable tools, reproducible workflows, and reliable analyses. Key responsibilities Developed data and machine-learning workflows for applied research projects. Supported researchers in framing ML problems, choosing suitable methods, and evaluating results. Helped build and operate infrastructure for computationally demanding workloads, including Slurm-based HPC environments, container stacks, and GitLab/GitHub automation. Contributed to the planning and practical setup of shared AI/HPC infrastructure in the KIDA context. Worked on reproducibility, deployment, dependency management, and CVE-driven updates for research software environments. Developed open-source tools such as ScrAIbe and ScrAIbe-WebUI to make transcription and diarisation pipelines usable beyond purely technical users. Advised IT and research teams on translating prototypes and infrastructure ideas into more stable services. Supervised and supported student projects, theses, and internal knowledge transfer around programming, data science, and machine learning. This work connected my physics background with practical AI and research software engineering: using machine learning not as an end in itself, but as a tool to make scientific work more transparent, reproducible, and useful.

Member and Chair of the Physics Student Council

Taking responsibility in student representation During my studies, I served as an elected member and later as chair of the Physics Student Council, the student representative body of the physics department. In this role, I represented student perspectives, supported fellow students with organisational questions, and contributed to communication between students, teaching staff, and the institute. Key responsibilities Represented student concerns in discussions with teaching staff and university committees. Coordinated the work of the student council, including internal communication, task distribution, and decision-making. Supported students with organisational questions around courses, exams, and everyday academic life. Helped organise events that connected students with each other and with research groups at the institute. Improved communication between cohorts through shared documentation and better transfer of information. This experience showed me how important clear communication, reliability, and practical organisation are in academic environments — especially when many different perspectives need to be brought together.

Scientific Assistant

Making physics accessible through hands-on experimentation From 2016 to 2022, I supported the HASP student laboratory at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. The laboratory gives school students a practical introduction to experimental physics — not only through demonstrations, but through hands-on experimentation, observation, and discussion. Key responsibilities Guided student groups through physics experiments in the laboratory. Explained complex physical phenomena in a way that matched different age groups and levels of prior knowledge. Built, tested, and improved experimental setups and demonstrations. Balanced safety, robustness, and scientific accuracy when working with laboratory experiments. Supported the maintenance and development of the laboratory’s catalogue of experiments. This work strongly shaped my interest in teaching and science communication. It taught me how important it is to explain advanced concepts in a way that invites curiosity and allows students to make their own observations.