Education
Planned from Oct 2026
Psychology (B.Sc., application submitted)
- Applied for the winter semester 2026/27; studies have not started yet
- Planned focus on psychological foundations, research methods, diagnostics, and applications including health psychology
- Part of a broader effort to connect AI and robotics with psychology, biology, and medicine
Apr 2023 - Apr 2026
Industrial Engineering and Management (M.Sc.)
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe
- Master's Thesis: “Improving Safety and Efficiency of Off-Policy RL Using Human Interventions” (perfect grade)
- Focus on AI and Entrepreneurship
- Practical Course: RL End-To-End Locomotion for Quadrupets (perfect grade)
- Seminar: RL Fine-Tuned LLM for Unit Test Generation (perfect grade)
- Seminar: Expose Relational Data as Linked Data (perfect grade, paper published)
- Practical Course - Startup Experience: Cashback and Rewards for Healthy Shopping Habits (perfect grade)
- Machine Learning 2 Bonus Task: Greyscale Image Colorization (best in class)
Oct 2018 - Dec 2022
Industrial Engineering and Management (B.Sc.)
Aug 2016 - Jun 2018
Abitur
Canisius-Kolleg, Berlin
- Advanced subjects: Physics and Mathematics
Professional Experience
May 2026 - Present
Research Assistant
FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Karlsruhe
- Continuing the research from my Master's thesis toward scientific publication
- Research focus: Off-policy reinforcement learning for robotics
- Learning from human interventions
- Safety and sample efficiency in robot learning
- Experimental evaluation and preparation of a scientific publication
Learnings: Reinforcement Learning, Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning
Apr 2023 - Apr 2025
Research Assistant for Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence
Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB), KIT
- Researched and presented the current state of quantum computing technologies, identifying connections to the research group's focus areas
- Designed and developed a reinforcement learning agent for automated end-to-end testing of mobile applications in a two-person team, including the integration of a pretrained feature extractor and the definition and optimization of reward functions
- Conceptualized the integration of curiosity-driven learning to improve agent exploration strategies
- Supported the preparation of scientific papers and presentations through proofreading, content feedback, and language optimization
Learnings: Research, Reinforcement Learning, Teamwork, Scientific Writing
Oct 2022 - Feb 2024
Volleyball Instructor
Pädagogische Hochschule, Karlsruhe
Learnings: Communication, Leadership
Oct 2021 - Mar 2022
Product Management Intern - Industrial Robots
ArtiMinds Robotics GmbH, Karlsruhe
- Development Control: Gathering and preparing feedback, organizing development tasks, automating classification
- Documentation/Marketing: Design and writing of technical documentation and training materials, concept for and creation of tutorial videos
- Software Development: Refreshing and extending product UI with multi-level menu in QT5
Learnings: Operational Procedures, Teamwork, Task Delegation
Oct 2019 - Mar 2021
Tutor for Programming Lectures
Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB), KIT
- Supported a group of students in learning Java
- Presented theory and helped with practical exercises
- Supervision and correction of exams
Learnings: Reliability, Teamwork, Communication, Diligence
Aug 2016 - Jun 2017
business@school
Boston Consulting Group, Berlin
- Three-phase entrepreneurship program: company analysis, a regional business analysis, and development of an original business idea
- Phase 1 – DAX-listed company (BMW AG)
- Phase 2 – Local small business (Bag manufacturer Anke Runge)
- Phase 3 – Developed a dynamo with a USB port as our own business idea
- Team won the first and second phases
Learnings: Presenting, Researching, Teamwork
Jun 2016 / Apr 2017
Exchange Programm
Regis High School, New York
- 3 weeks abroad
Learnings: English, American culture
Jan 2017
Social Internship
Emergency Shelter for Refugees, Berlin
Learnings: Intercultural and Social Skills
Jul 2015
Summer School
Alpadia Language Schools, Portsmouth
- Stay abroad combined with English lessons
Learnings: English, British culture