01/2015 - 04/2019 Doctorate in computer science (Dr. rer. nat., graduated summa cum laude) at Heidelberg University. Title of thesis: “Implicit Entity Networks: A Versatile Document Model”
Advisors: Prof. Michael Gertz, Prof. Kai-Uwe Sattler
10/2012 - 12/2014 Master in applied computer science (M.Sc., graduated with distinction) at Heidelberg University, minor in computational linguistics. Title of thesis: “Analysis and exploration of centrality and referencing patterns in networks of news articles”
Advisor: Prof. Michael Gertz
10/2009 - 09/2012 Bachelor in applied computer science (B.Sc.) at Heidelberg University, minor in computational linguistics. Title of thesis: “An evaluation of similarity measures for the projection of bipartite networks”
Advisors: Prof. Gerhard Reinelt, Prof. Katharina Zweig
01/2015 - 04/2019 Research Assistant, Heidelberg University
04/2015 - 06/2017 Adjunct Lecturer, Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University Mannheim (DHBW)
10/2010 - 03/2012 Student Assistant, Heidelberg University
Stipends & Scholarships
04/2016 - 09/2016 Microsoft Azure for Research Award; project title: “heiLIGHTS: A Heidelberg approach to Learning Influential GrapH Topology Structures”
10/2013 - 09/2014 Germany Scholarship (Deutschlandstipendium), Heidelberg University
10/2012 - 09/2013Karl-Steinbuch scholarship for supporting innovative IT- and media-related projects, MFG Baden-Württemberg, Germany; project title: “AFFINE: A network analytic approach to identifying characteristics of cinematic milestones”
11/2015 - 10/2016 Representative of the natural sciences in the executive committee of the Heidelberg University PhD student government (Doktorandenkonvent)
03/2015 - 10/2015 Member of the commission for founding the Heidelberg University PhD student government
Teaching
Lectures (lecturer):
Operating Systems (summer 2015, 2016)
Lectures (assistant):
Complex Network Analysis (winter 2016/2017)
Knowledge Discovery in Databases (winter 2016/2015)
Introduction to Databases (summer 2015, 2016, 2017)
Introduction to Software Engineering (winter 2011/2012)
Algorithms and Data Structures (summer 2011)
Introduction to Applied Computer Science (winter 2010/2011)
Seminars (co-supervisor):
Fake News, Fact Checking, and Filter Bubbles (summer 2018)
Embeddings for Data Analysis (summer 2018)
Information Networks (summer 2017)
Similarity Search (summer 2016)
Event Detection (summer 2015)
11/12/2018 “Network-centric Approaches to the Exploration of News Streams” [slides]
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
Invited by Prof. Robert West
05/26/2017 “Applications of Latent Entity Networks in Information Retrieval” [slides]
Workshop Internationale Klima- und Energiediskurse, Darmstadt, Germany
Invited by Prof. Marcus Müller
09/14/2016 “Extraction and Applications of Implicit Networks from Unstructured Text” [slides]
Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany
Invited by Dr. Jannik Strötgen
09/09/2015 “Networks in Information Extraction”
Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), Heidelberg, Germany
Invited by Prof. Michael Strube
03/11/2015 “From Text to Context: Extracting Date-Term-Networks from Wikipedia”
DHBW Mannheim, IMBIT. Mannheim, Germany
Invited by Prof. Peter Mayr
11/19/2013 “AFFINE: Analyzing the Features of the Film Reference Network”
MFG Foundation, Karl-Steinbuch Stipend Certificate Ceremony. Stuttgart, Germany
Invited by Dr. Christian Förster