About

I received pre-diplomas (~B.Sc.) in Mathematics and Computer Science and a diploma (~M.Sc.) in Computer Science from the University of Bonn. From 2000 to 2004, I was a research assistant and Ph.D. student in the CVPR group headed by Prof. Buhmann at the University of Bonn. In May 2004, I have joined the Intelligent Data Analysis Group headed by Klaus-Robert Müller at the Fraunhofer Institute FIRST in Berlin, Germany. In January 2007, I moved to the Technical University of Berlin branch of the IDA Group. In 2010, I co-founded TWIMPACT, a start-up company focused on real-time analysis of social media data. In 2015, I quite academia and TWIMPACT and joined Zalando as a Deliver Lead for the Recommendation and Search teams, later switched to an individual contributor role. In 2020 I joined GetYourGuide as a Staff Data Scientists. From October 2020, I worked as an independent consultant and freelancer. Since October 2023, I'm back at Zalando, this time as a Senior Principal Applied Scientist in the Fulfilment Core department in Logistics.