Resume

• Born: May 8th, 1981
• Nationality: German
• Place of birth: Riesa, Germany
  

• 2007 – today      Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto

• Supervisor: Eugene Fiume
• Area: Computer graphics, light transport simulation, applied geometric mechanics, applied functional analysis
  

• 2005 – 2007       MSc. in computer science, University of Toronto

• Supervisor: Eugene Fiume
• Thesis topic: Orthogonal and Symmetric Haar Wavelets on the Sphere

• 2001 – 2004       BSc. in media systems at the Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany

• Thesis supervisor: Bernd Fröhlich
• Thesis topic: Interactive Ray Tracing and Ray Casting on Programmable Graphics Hardware

• 1991 – 1999        Albert-Schweitzer Gymnasium, Ruhla, Germany

• 2005 – 2007      Fellow of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
• 2005 – 2006      Okino Computer Graphics Award
• 2010 – 2011      Wolfond Fellowship
  

• Summer 2007    NVIDIA, Developer Technology Group, London, UK
• Summer 2006    NVIDIA, Developer Technology Group, London, UK
• Summer 2005    NVIDIA, Developer Technology Group, London, UK
• 2005                    Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Darmstadt, Germany
• 2003 – 2004       Research assistant, Virtual Reality Systems Group, Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany
• 2003 – 2004       Development and maintenance of online course evaluation system, Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany
• 2001                    Gildemeister AG, IT / Marketing department, Seebach, Germany
• 2000                    Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg, Germany
  

• 2007 – today      Graduate affairs committee, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
• 2002 – 2004       Student magazine micro, Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany
• 2003 – 2004       Member of various university committees, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany