Current Work
I am working as a consultant at Cologne Intelligence in, well, Cologne, Germany.
Doctorate Years
I started working on my doctorate thesis at
the Center for Applied Computer Science in Cologne
and finished it at
the Institute for Mathematics of the Technical University of Cottbus.
The thesis was supervised by Winfried Hochstättler and deals with theoretical and practical
aspects of a new combinatorial optimization problem which arose from the automobile industry.
It is entitled "Color sequencing". You can view a presentation (in German)
by Winfried Hochstättler and Robert Nickel that illustrates parts of it.
You can also examine my mathematical genealogy.
Diploma Years
I studied mathematics with subsidiary subject physics (in particular, astronomy) at
the University of Bochum.
In addition, I worked as a student assistant at
its Institut für Neuroinformatik
as well as a physics tutor in two hospitals.
I also spent some time at the Technical University of Tampere in Finland and
the Technical University of Vienna in Austria.
My diploma thesis was supervised by Dietrich Braess and is settled in the field of combinatorial optimization and is
entitled "Näherungsverfahren für das Problem des Handlungsreisenden", which literally
translates to "Approximation algorithms for the travelling salesman problem".