Curriculum Vitae

Research Experience

2024 – present
Postdoctoral Researcher
ETH Zürich, Zurich
Quantum computing with superconducting qubits. Supervised by Andreas Wallraff.
2020 – 2023
Doctoral Researcher
Institute of High Energy Physics, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Dark matter direct detection with the CRESST and COSINUS experiments. Supervised by Jochen Schieck, Florian Reindl and Wolfgang Waltenberger.
2021 – 2023
Student Researcher
Technical University Vienna
Reinforcement learning for the control of particle physics experiments (master thesis in mathematics). Supervised by Clemens Heitzinger.
2019 – 2020
Student Researcher
Institute of High Energy Physics, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Machine learning methods for the analysis of cryogenic dark matter detectors (master thesis in physics). Supervised by Jochen Schieck, Florian Reindl and Wolfgang Waltenberger.

Education

2020 – 2023
Doctoral programme, Technical Physics
Technical University Vienna, AUT
2018 – 2023
Master of Science, Technical Mathematics
Technical University Vienna, AUT
2018 – 2020
Master of Science, Technical Physics
Technical University Vienna, AUT
2015 – 2018
Bachelor of Science, Technical Physics
Technical University Vienna, AUT
Sep 2022
CERN School of Computing
Kraków, PL
Computing methods for large scale particle physics experiments.
Jul – Aug 2017
Chinese Language Summerschool
Peking University, Beijing, CHN
Jun 2013
BHS Matura
Higher Technical College for Biomedical Engineering, Mistelbach/Zaya, AUT

Awards and Fellowships

2025
Victor-Franz-Hess Dissertation Prize
Prize awarded to outstanding dissertations in the field of nuclear and particle physics by the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Schrödinger Fellowship
FFG Scholarship
Club Alpbach Lower Austria Scholarship
2019
ÖAW AI Summer School Challenge

Publications, Talks, and Teaching

See the dedicated pages for publications, talks, and teaching.

Service and Outreach

  • EXCESS workshops
  • ÖAW AI school
  • Dark Matter Day, 2022
  • Social Artificial Intelligence Night (SAINT22), University of Applied Science St. Pölten — public talk about the research done in the Machine Learning and Uncertainty Quantification Group (Heitzinger group, TU Vienna).

Non-Scientific Engagement

Jul – Aug 2016
Internship at the Austrian Embassy Beijing
Administrative internship at the Austrian Embassy in Beijing, China. Accompanying meetings of the ambassador, research for a publication about economic strategies in cooperation with the Office of Science and Technology Austria Beijing.
2012 – 2015
Chairman, Austrian Federal Students Representation and Student's Association
Federal Chairman of the Student's Association ("Schülerunion") Austria's 2014/15 and Lower Austria's 2013/14; Austria's first Student's Representative ("Bundesschulsprecher") 2012/13.