About


thegravitygrinch_at_gmail.com

I currently hold visiting scholar positions at the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taipei and at the Helsinki Institute of Physics at the University of Helsinki. My ORCID is 0000-0002-4999-3838. I greatly like joining ideas from various fields of research to gain a deeper understanding of our universe on large scales. This endeavour is even more enjoyable when pursuing it with international experts from different cultural backgrounds, collaborating instead of competing. Cosmology is a challenge for the entire "Team Earth" together!*

* If you are reading this on another planet, feel welcome as well unless you have a taste for cat sandwiches.

My past light cone

Researcher in cosmology (2021 – )
"From ideal to real observational cosmology" 
"Self-gravitating dark matter gets in shape"

Researcher in cosmology (2014 – 2020)
"Model-independent characterisation and model selection of gravitational lenses"

PostDoc in astrophysics (2017)
"Automated multi-band matched filter detection of open star clusters in the Gaia catalogue"
PIs: Sabine Reffert & Kai L. Polsterer
funded by Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies


Co-author/ editor at Springer (2012 – today)
"Physik: für Wissenschaftler & Ingenieure"
with Paul A. Tipler & Gene Mosca


PostDoc in life sciences/ image processing (2011 – 2013)
"Automated evaluation of surface plasmon resonance data"
"Automated eval. of chromosome movements during spermatogenesis in gene-altered mice"
PIs: Reiner Dahint & Harry Scherthan


PhD in life sciences/ image processing (2011)
"Image processing based quality control for peptide chip arrays"


Diploma (~MSc) in particle physics (2008)
"Data compression for the ALICE detector at CERN"

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