CV

Research visitor

Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)

Working with Erik Tonni in a project on entanglement Hamiltonians in quantum field theories, comparing different numerical methods.

Research assistant

Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Leipzig (Leipzig University)

Working in the Emmy Noether research group of Daniela Cadamuro on 'Der quantisierte Energie-Impuls-Tensor'. Developing a new numerical approximation scheme for modular operators of free, massive quantum fields (go to the project page).

• Supervision of Enzo Ebert (with Rainer Verch, research project and Bachelor thesis 'Tunneling time and entropic measurements', 2023-2024)
• Scientific co-organisation of the '48th LQP Workshop and Detlev-Fest' (hosted at Leipzig University, 2024.06)
• Co-supervision of Mark Bradshaw, Elija Engelhardt, and Adam Highfield (summer students with Kasia Rejzner at University of York, 2022-2024)
• Supervision of Lasse Hertle (with Rainer Verch, research project and Master thesis 'Oscillation Effects in XY Spin Chain Entropies', 2021-2023)
• Seminar teaching: 'Theoretische Physik 3: Analytische Mechanik und Elektrodynamik (Lehramt)' (WS 2022)
• Scientific co-organisation of the conference 'Energy conditions in quantum field theory' (hosted at Leipzig University, 2022.09)

Software engineer (Java)

PSI Energy Markets GmbH

Software development (mainly Java and SQL) as well as customer support for public services, power and gas supply companies, and energy markets.

Joint SISSA/ICTP seminar

Invited talk: On the mass dependence of modular operators for double cone regions in QFT

Research visit with another journal club talk 'From classical to quantum fields on discrete spacetimes' to review aspects of causal set theory.

Seventeenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting (MG17), The Gabriele d'Annunzio University, ICRANet and Aurum

Contributed talk: Do causal sets have symmetries?

XXI International Congress on Mathematical Physics (ICMP)

Contributed talk: Mass dependence of modular operators for double cones

48th LQP Workshop and Detlev-Fest, ITP, Leipzig University

Scientific coorganisation

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

Invited talk: From classical to quantum fields on causal sets

Research visit with another journal club talk 'Mass dependence of modular operators for double cones' to review aspects of Tomita-Takesaki modular theory.

Quantum Gravity @ Raman Research Institute

Invited participation

Quantum Gravity 2023, Radboud University Nijmegen

Talk: Algebras and states for quantum fields on causal sets

Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetimes Workshop II

Poster: Geometric construction of distinguished states

DPG Frühjahrestagung, Dresden University of Technology

Talk: MP 2.2: On the mass dependence of the modular operator for a double cone

Energy conditions in quantum field theory, ITP, Leipzig University

Scientific coorganisation

Raman Research Institute Seminar

Talk: Local Structure for the Discretization of the Scalar Field Equations on Sprinkled Causal Sets

Causal Set Meeting

Talk: The Sprinkling Process, Diamonds and Local Structures in Causal Set Theory

Quantum Gravity 2020

Poster: Diamonds and Local Structure in Sprinkled Causal Sets

Poster price winner, talk: Sprinklings in Causal Set Theory and Local Structures to Discretize Field Propagators

59th North British Mathematical Physics Seminar

Talk: Sprinklings in Causal Set Theory and Local Structures to Discretize Field Propagators

Graduate Research Symposium, Department of Mathematics, University of York

Talk: On the Probability Measure for Sprinkling in Causal Set Theory

Award winner: KM Stott Prize

DPG Frühjahrestagung, Dresden University of Technology

Poster: HL 85.13: Statistical Properties of Photon Modes in Random Arrays of ZnO Nano-Needles

PhD in Mathematics (Mathematical Physics)

Department of Mathematics, University of York

Thesis: 'Algebraic Field Theory on Causal Sets: Local Structures and Quantization Methods' supervised by Kasia Rejzner and Eli Hawkins (Mathematical Physics and Quantum Information Research Group)

• Co-supervision of Benjamin Threlfall (summer students with Kasia Rejzner, 2021-2022)
• Departmental role as Postgraduate Research Course Representative (2018-2019)
• Seminar teaching: 'Applied Mathematics: Classical and Quantum Dynamics' (2019)
• Seminar teaching: 'Introduction to Applied Mathematics' (2018, 2019)
• Seminar teaching: 'Applied Mathematics: Newtonian Gravity and Special Relativity' (2018)
• Courses: 'Advanced Quantum Theory' (2017-2018)
• Online courses: 'Functional Analysis' and other mathematical topics (2017-2018)

Master of Science in Physics

Fakultät II - Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften, Technische Universität Berlin (Technical University of Berlin)

Thesis: 'Shock Waves in Nonlinear Electrodynamics' supervised by Horst-Heino von Borzeszkowski and Thoralf Chrobok (Group for Relativity and Quantum Theory)

• Courses: 'Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie 1 und 2' (General Relativity 1 and 2)
• Courses: 'Quantenmechanik 2' and 'Theoretische Optik' (Quantum Mechanics 2, Quantum Field Theory, and Theoretical Optics)
• Courses: 'Höhere Optik 1 und 2' (Higher Optics 1 and 2)
• Attended lectures: 'Introduction to String Theory' and 'Fortgeschrittene Quantenfeldtheorie' (Advanced Quantum Field Theory) at HU Berlin
• Voluntary co-organisation of Hochschultage for eco-social market economy, organised through the Global Marshall Plan initiative (2012.05 - 2012.11).

Bachelor of Science in Technical Physics

Fakultät Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften, Technische Universität Ilmenau (Ilmenau University of Technology)

Thesis: 'Statistical Properties of Photon Modes in Random Arrays of ZnO Nano-Needles' supervised by Erich Runge and David Leipold (Group of Theoretical Physics 1)

• Research internship at the Hui Cao Research Laboratory (Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, Connecticut, USA) organised through the exchange program RISE (Research Internships in Science and Engineering) by DAAD, working on structural coloration with experiments and a simulation in MATLAB (2010.08 - 2010.10).
• Research internship at the Laser Research Institute (Stellenbosch University, Western Cape, South Africa), working with Zephania Birech and programming a measuring software with LabVIEW for a femtosecond experiment (under supervision by Heinrich Schwörer) (2010.04 - 2010.07).