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Contact
Education
| 1980-1984: |
Scherenberg Grundschule, Dettelbach |
| 1984-1993: |
Matriculation Standard, Armin Knab Gymnasium, Kitzingen |
| 1993-1994: |
Civilian Service, Würzburg |
| 1995-2002: |
Diploma Mathematics with subsidiary subject National Economy at
the University of Mannheim, overall grade Diploma: very good, Diploma
work topic: Networkexternalities (PDF),
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Klaus Conrad
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| 1995-1997: |
Business Administration, up to intermediate diploma level, University
Mannheim |
| 1998-2000: |
Computer Science, up to intermediate diploma level, University Mannheim
and University Heidelberg |
| 2003-2008: |
Research assistant and PhD Student at the Goethe University Frankfurt,
PhD-Thesis: Development of bayesian methods for reconstructing Phylogenies
from molecular Sequences. Including modelling of varying evolutionary
Rates, Time Calibration and Prior Distribution on Tree Topologies.
Design and Implementation (C++) of an easy too extend and efficient
MCMC-Application for Sampling molecular Phylogenies. Supervisor: Prof.
Dr. Dirk Metzler |
Professional Projects
| Since 2000: |
Director of a Company and Freelance Software Engineer: Architecture
and Implementation of Scientific Software, Visualisation Tools, Internet
Applications, E-Commerce Solutions and Database Development |
| 2000-2002: |
Co-operation on a Research Project of the DFG (German research council)
at the Biological Federal Institute in Dossenheim/Heidelberg to kinetic
Triggers of Spore Issues. Supervisor: Dr. Andreas Kollar |
| Since 2005: |
Software development of Scientific Tools in R and Statistical Data
Analysis in the field of evolutionary Biology with PD Dr. Markus Pfenninger, University
Frankfurt |
| Since 2006: |
External Software Consultant for Internet Applications, E-Commerce Solutions and Database Development
at the Advertising Agency goya in
Heidelberg
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| Since 2007: |
Phylogenetic reconstruction with varying rates and Statistical Data
Analysis in co-operation with Dr. Johannes Müller, Humbold-University
Berlin |
| Since 2007: |
Development of Portfolio Evaluation Tool, a Software Program to
visualise the Evaluation of a Company's Product Portfolio, in co-operation
with Roger Beyer, University St. Gallen and Melanie Lenz |
Programming Skills
| Low-level Languages: |
C/C++, Java, Visual BASIC, Pascal |
| High-level Languages: |
Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Haskell |
| Statistical Programming: |
R, bioconductor, S, SAS |
| Mathematical Programming: |
Maple, Matlab, Mathematica |
| Web: |
Flash Actionscript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, XML |
| Database: |
MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS Access |
| GUI's: |
wxWidgets, Qt, GTK, Tk, AWT, Swing, SWT |
| System: |
Windows, Linux, Mac OS |
| Applications: |
Microsoft Office, Adobe Applications (Flash, Flex, Photoshop), Tex
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| Development Tools: |
Eclipse, StarUML, Doxygen, CVS, gprof |
| Engineering: |
Software Design, Object Oriented Modelling and Analysis, Generic
Programming, Software Patterns, Refactoring, Project Management |
Mathematical Skills
| Probability and Statistic: |
Modern Probability, Mathematical Statistic, Stochastic Processes,
Stochastic Systems, Stochastic Differential Equations, Financial Mathematics, Modelling, Simulation
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| Numerical Mathematics: |
Numerical Methods, Linear and Non-Linear Optimisation, Convergence
Acceleration, Approximation Theory, Computer Aided Design |
| Theoretical Mathematics: |
Analysis, Complex Analysis, Linear Algebra, Algebra, Number Theory,
Functional Analysis, Topology |
| Statistical Data Analysis: |
Clustering Methods, Principal Component Analysis, Support Vector
Machines, Generalised Linear Models, Visualisation Techniques |
| Adaptive Learning: |
Hidden Markov Models, Stochastic Context Free Grammars, Neural Networks,
Genetic Algorithms, Fuzzy Logic |
| Statistical Inference: |
Maximum Likelihood, Bayesian Inference, Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods, Reversible
Jumps, Importance Sampling, Bootstrapping, Simulated Annealing, Heuristic
Optimisation |
| Phylogenetics: |
Tree Reconstruction, Molecular Evolution, Macroevolutionary Process,
Branching Processes, Coalescent Theory, Evolution of continuous Characters
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| Bioinformatics: |
DNA Microarrays, RNA Structure Prediction, Protein Function Prediction,
Genome Rearrangements, Molecular Modelling, Statistical Multiple Alignment |
| Economics: |
Economic Modelling, Game Theory, Dynamic Equilibrium Theory |
Languages
| German: |
Mother Tongue, perfect in Word and Document |
| English: |
Passively very well, actively for the Correspondence, verbal Conversation and for technical and scientific Texts
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| French: |
Good Knowledge acquired at School, mainly passive |
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