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Curriculum Vitae

Academic positions, education, and qualifications.

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Positions & Education

2024–present

ITC Fellow / Postdoctoral Researcher

Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian · Cambridge, MA

Simulations of cosmic reionization with the THESAN project.

2023–2024

Postdoctoral Researcher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) · Cambridge, MA

Research group of Mark Vogelsberger. Radiation hydrodynamics and GPU acceleration of AREPO-RT.

2019–2023

PhD in Astrophysics

Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) · Garching, Germany

Supervisor: Volker Springel. Dissertation on protoplanetary disk simulations and numerical methods for the moving-mesh code AREPO.

2017–2019

M.Sc. Mathematical & Theoretical Physics

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) · Munich, Germany

Master's thesis on Milky Way–like disk simulations with GADGET-3.

2013–2017

B.Sc. Physics & B.Sc. Computer Science

University of Bayreuth · Bayreuth, Germany

Bachelor's thesis on low-Prandtl-number convection in liquid mercury.

Research Interests

Cosmic ReionizationGalaxy FormationRadiation HydrodynamicsMoving-Mesh MethodsNon-ideal MHDProtoplanetary DisksDisk InstabilitiesGPU / HPCNumerical MethodsCode Development

Software Contributions

AREPO

Moving-mesh magnetohydrodynamics code. Contributions include non-ideal MHD, shearing box approximation, higher-order flux integration, GPU acceleration of the radiation transport module (AREPO-RT), and various optimizations.

GADGET-4

Smoothed-particle hydrodynamics code for cosmological simulations. Contributed the SPH implementation (density- and pressure-based formulations, time-dependent artificial viscosity) and vectorized computational kernels.