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I am a university researcher, a member of the Global Young Academy and a European citizen by conviction. Born and raised in Germany, mathematics brought me to live in and work in 7 countries in Europe, notably at the Faculty of Engineering of Lund University, the School of Mathematics and Statistics at The University of Sheffield, the Chebychev Laboratory of St. Petersburg State University as postdoc of Stanislav Smirnov, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and University of Pisa, Stochastic Analysis group.

I also have a degree in Protestant Theology, with a focus on ethics of technology. During my time at the Munich Centre for Machine Learning, I combined both worlds through cross-disciplinary work in Digital Theology and AI ethics. My main projects included leveraging Machine Learning techniques for digital editions of biblical manuscripts, and algorithmizability of ethics,.

Research Outline

I am both a fundamental scientist and an ethics scholar, with relevant domain expertise in mathematics, artificial intelligence, climate modelling and ethics of technology. I investigate machine learning algorithms, evaluate their reliability and explainability, and draw attention to the ethical implications of our usage of this technology. I do fundamental research on large-scale geophysical flows and created a model to monitor CO2 emissions on a regional scale, which is important for policy decisions. My mathematical models appear as key working mechanisms from epidemiology, neurophysiology, to material sciences. Having studied philosophy and theology, I know a diverse set of methodologies from the humanities and social sciences, which I applied in the last two years in interdisciplinary research in digital humanities (applied on 2000 year old papyrical manuscripts), and social sciences (gender studies, social migration). For more details, especially on my mathematical research, please see my Research page.