Career

Education

• 1999-2004 Studied mathematics at the TU Clausthal.
• 2008 Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.)

University activity

• 2002-2003 Research assistant at the Institute of Mathematics at TU Clausthal.
• Since 2004 research assistant at the Institute of Mathematics in the working group "Stochastic Models in Engineering".
• Since 2009 research assistant at the Simulation Science Center of TU Clausthal.
• Since 2013 managing director of theSimulation Science Center Clausthal-Göttingen.

Industrial projects

• 2006-2007 Project with Arcor AG for theneeds analysis and optimization of call centers.
• 2007-2008 Project with Lufthansa AG to optimizepunctuality optimization of flight schedules.
• 2012 Project with Siemens AG on Total Airport Management.
• 2012-2013Training course "Statistics with Excel"for Telekom AG.
• 2014-2018 Project with Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH to optimize surface inspection in strip steel production.
• 2017-2020 Project with the AG of Dillinger Hüttenwerke for modeling, stochastic simulation and optimization of production processes in the field of heavy plate production.

Honorary activities

• Since 2008 member of the jury of thestate competition Jugend forscht in Lower Saxony.

Competencies

• Event-oriented stochastic simulation (seeCall Center SimulatorandSimOps)
• Markov chains and continued fractions
• Queueing theory (seeQueueing calculator)
• Time series analysis
• Application development (especially in Java, Delphi andphp/Javascript)

Interviews and newspaper articles

• 28.10.2008: Spiegel Online: "How we could all store faster"
• Quarter 1/2011: iQ Journal (VDI Braunschweig District Association): "Applied mathematics at the TU Clausthal" (Author)
• 25.6/26.6. 2012: Nürnberger Nachrichten: "When nothing progresses"
• 1.8.2012: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger: "Why queues make us so angry"
• 19.8.2012: Die Rheinpfalz am Sonntag: "I was there first!"
• 7.10.2012: Sonntag Aktuell: "Summoning is useless"