Since February 2021 I am a full professor for control at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.

My path into research began at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, where I studied Systemtechnik und technische Kybernetik (Systems engineering and technical cybernetic, close to control engineering) and graduated with a degree in engineering in October 2008.

Even during my studies, I was drawn back out into the world (I had already spent an exchange year in Argentina in secondary school). In the summer semester of 2007, I spent six months at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Florianópolis, Brazil, to write my bachelor’s thesis. This was followed by a six-month internship at Daimler AG in Sindelfingen and Böblingen—a formative time during which I was able to combine theory and industrial practice.

My master’s thesis then took me to the Hamilton Institute at the National University of Ireland Maynooth, where I conducted research during the summer semester of 2008. My fascination with complex dynamic systems never left me, so I stayed in Ireland for another three and a half years to complete my doctorate. After that, I moved to Australia, where I worked for two years in an international research team at the University of Newcastle in New South Wales before moving to Uppsala, Sweden, in 2014 to teach and conduct research at Uppsala University.

From August 2019 to January 2021, I was a junior professor at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, where I headed the Autonomous Systems in Automation department.

In the summer of 2020 I was offered my current position at TU Berlin.

If you would like to learn more about my scientific work, you can find further information here.