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Person

I was born on October 31st, 1979 (on Halloween) in

Heidelberg / Germany. I visited the

Helmholtz Gymnasium Heidelberg and passed my mandatory military service at the

Bundeswehr afterwards. Following my interests, I started to study computer science. Please visit

my hobbies section to see what I do in my free time.

Higher Education

	I am a Ph.D. student at Princeton University since September 2003. My major is Computer Science. Please have a look at my research section to see my progress.

	I made the Master of Computer Engineering at the University of Mannheim. The whole course of studies took me less than 3 years, including my thesis. This is significantly less than the 4.5 years recommended by the university and less than half the time an average German computer science student needs. I was one of Germany's fastest students. I'm going to publish a few statistics here as soon as the responsible authorities have collected the required data for the year 2003.

Occupations

	June 2007 - August 2007: Graduate research intern at Intel Application Research Lab in Santa Clara, California. I worked on servers for virtual worlds such as Second Life. On the weekends I traveled around to see the beautiful landscape of California. I also learned surfing (kind of).
	May 2003 - July 2003: Tutor at the University of Mannheim. I supervised the training for the Digital Circuits lecture.

	July 2002 - October 2002: Research trainee at the Central Research Laboratories of NEC in Japan near Tokyo. I optimized the Linpack Benchmark Program for Intel processors. In my free time, I could enjoy the exciting nightlife of Tokyo and the Japanese culture. This internship was definitely one of the greatest times of my life. I've put some photos online, please have a look at my Japan 2002 photos.

	April 2002 - July 2002: Officially employed as a research student at the University of Mannheim. I've worked there before, but now it was my main occupation beside my studies.

	May 2000 - March 2002: Project assistant at SAP, the world's leading e-business software solution provider. I worked in a small team that did the final assembly of the whole (!) SAP documentation. You can visit the SAP Help Portal and admire some of the fruits of my labor online.

	Autumn 2001: First company founded.

Languages

Intercultural skills are becoming more and more important in today's connected, globalized world. Especially languages are a key factor for understanding and communicating with people from different cultures. Therefore I'm spending a major part of my free time to learn foreign languages. At the moment, I'm focusing on Spanish and Japanese. My results so far:

	German	native
	English	fluent
	French	conversational
	Spanish	conversational
	Japanese	conversational

Other Activity

	Winter 2002: I co-founded the VDE Hochschulgruppe Mannheim and became its first vice president. I also designed its web site and developed its strategic orientation. The VDE Hochschulgruppe Mannheim is a student organization which is a subsidiary organization of the VDE, a German organization similar to the IEEE. Its two goals are to serve as a platform to facilitate the formation of an alumni network and to help to bridge the gap between theory and practice.

	Winter 2001: I am a co-founder and the Webmaster of the e-fellows.net Citygroup Mannheim. The Citygroup is a local organization which is part of the e-fellows.net career network.

Scholarships

	Supported by the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Germany's most famous scholarship program that only supports the top 0.5% of all German students.

	Sponsored by the e-fellows.net online scholarship program originally initiated by McKinsey & Company.