My Path

Curriculum vitae

Education

  • 2024 - now: PostDoc in Astronomy at the University of Exeter
  • 2020 - 2024: PhD in Astronomy at the University of St Andrews, SRON, and the IWF
    Thesis: Unlocking a Bayesian View on Protoplanetary Disks
  • 2018 -2020: M.Sc. in Physics at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
    Thesis: Analysing the Performance of Self-Organizing Maps for the Classification of Low Surface Brightness Objects
  • 2015 - 2018: B.Sc. in Physics at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
    Thesis: Characterizing KiDS Survey Data for Deep Galaxy Surface Photometry

Outreach and Teaching

  • 03/2023 - 08/2024: Organizer of the IWF disk group meeting
  • 09/2022 - 10/2022: Teaching assistance for Statistics for Astronomy at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
  • 10/2020 - 08/2022: Host and Organizer of the StA-CES Journal Club
  • 07/2021: Workshop leader of Introduction to Python at the University of St Andrews
  • 01/2021 - 05/2021: Tutor of Computational Astronomy at the University of St Andrews
  • 02/2021 - 04/2021: Patricipating Scientist at the StA-CES Anthology (UK/international), Literature written on basis of Science
  • 05/2019 - 08/2020: ZDI Netzwerk IST.Bochum, Conducting scientific workshops in school classes
  • 06/2019 - 05/2020: Scientific assistant at the Ruhr University, Supervising observations from student groups
  • 2014 - 2020: Tutor, Teaching students in mathematics
  • 2018: Poster, Searching diffuse Objects around NGC 7361 using the Kilo Degree Survey, Käufer, T., Bomans, D. J., Stein, M. and Weimann, S., Presented at “The Bewildering Nature of Ultra-diffuse Galaxies” Workshop, Leiden, NL