About

I am a quantum physicist with a PhD and a Master's degree in theoretical physics from the University of Cologne, Germany, 5+ years of scientific programming experience (C/C++) and a passion for game development.

Programming has always fascinated me and I have been writing code since I was in high-school. In my diploma thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Neurological Researh I applied ideas from information theory to unsupervised learning problems in neuroinformatics. Subsequently I moved to strongly correlated electron systems (condensed matter physics) and developed HPC applications for the numerical solution of quantum systems.

My passion for game development started early on. In 1999 I wrote my first 3D graphics engine with a friend in high school (3dfx's Glide API - yes, those were the dark days of vendor-specific 3D API's) and ever since then have been involved in various personal game development projects. As of late I have been mainly interested in physics integration in games and sketched a game development library (Hephaestus), including two exemplary mini-games ('SuperAsteroids' and 'Night & Day').

Education

• Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.), Theoretical Physics, 2010 - 2014 University of Cologne
• Guest-Doctoral Fellow, 2013 University of Tokyo, Japan
• Diplom (Master's degree), Physics, Minor in Mathematics, 2004 - 2009 University of Cologne