Curriculum vitae
Experience
- 2019-2025
- Research Associate; Uni Potsdam
My work was centered around the question of how to use neural networks to explore the limits of variability in context, and took the shape of researching, writing papers, programming experiments and frameworks, teaching, reviewing, presenting my work, organising and giving workshops, and managing and supervising students
- 2018-2019
- Research Associate; LMU Munich
I worked in the research area Representation Learning for Natural Languages within the Munich Center for Machine Learning, which led to my Master Thesis
- 2015-2018
- Machine Translation Engineer; beo GmbH
My responsibilities included
- maintenance and improvement of the in-house machine translation workflow
- integration of MT into the existing translation workflows
- communication with translators, project managers and the IT department
- workshops on MT for translators and in-house staff
- 2013-2015
- Student Assistant Machine Translation; euroscript/bmmt/beo
I gained insights into the set-up and use of MT in commercial environments
- 2010-2013
- Student Research Assistant, BabyLab Uni Potsdam
I coordinated appointments and carried out data collection experiments with children for language acquisition studies
Teaching
- Summer 2021 and 2022
- Introduction to Programming with Python (in German, together with Brielen Madureira)
B.Sc, Uni Potsdam
- Summer 2020
- Formal Languages and Automata (in German)
B.Sc, Uni Potsdam
- Winter 2018/19
- Teaching Assistant for Deep Learning for NLP
M.Sc, LMU Munich
- Summer 2012
- Teaching Assistant for Formal Languages and Automata (in German)
B.Sc, Uni Potsdam
Education
- 2017-2020
- MSc, Computational Linguistics; LMU Munich
Thesis: “Measuring Domain Similarity Based on Embedding Spaces” (Accepted as long paper at LREC)
- 2010-2015
- BSc, Computational Linguistics; Uni Potsdam
Thesis: “Automatic Quality Estimation for an Industrial Machine Translation Workflow”
- 2008-2010
- Anglistics and Spanish Philology; Uni Potsdam
Here, I soon realized that my interests are more of a general linguistic nature
Other Interests
- I’m a language nerd. I took courses (and forgot most of it all too fast again due to a lack of time and practice) in Maori, Spanish and Czech and am living in the illusion of some day reviving that knowledge by spending more time in the respective countries.
- I have been part of several choirs, currently it’s the Berlin based jazz choir jazzomat (always looking for male vocalists!)
- I love good food, ideally prepared and consumed with friends (not in the cannibalistic interpretation).