| Current postion |
| Northeastern University - Assistant Professor | 2021 - now |
| IAIFI - Senior Investigator | 2021 - now |
| Previous positions |
| CERN - Fellow in Theoretical Physics | 2018 - 2021 |
| University of Oxford - Visiting scientist | 2018 - 2021 |
| University of Oxford - Postdoc in Theoretical Physics | 2016 - 2018 |
| DESY Hamburg - Postdoc in Theoretical Physics | 2013 - 2016 |
| SAP AG (software company) - working student | 2006 - 2009 |
| Education |
| University of Bonn - PhD in Physics (0.0 "summa cum laude") | 2010 - 2013 |
| Supervisor: Hans Peter Nilles | |
| University of Heidelberg - Diplom in Physics (Grade 1.0+) | 2003 - 2009 |
| Supervisors: Arthur Hebecker and Stefan Groot Nibbelink. | |
| Graduated best in class (size 120) with highest distinction. | |
| University of Heidelberg - B.Sc. in Computer Science (Grade 1.0+) | 2006 - 2009 |
| Supervisors: M. Gertz (Heidelberg University), G. Liebig (SAP) | |
| Graduated best in class (size 20) with highest distinction. | |
| Awards and honors |
| Prize for the best Bachelor degree | 2010 |
| Awarded by the Department of Computer Science for the best CS degree in 2010 (of 20) | |
| Otto-Haxel Prize for the best degree in Physics in 2009 | 2009 |
| Awarded by the University of Heidelberg for the best theoretical Diplom in 2009 (of 120) | |
| Tuition waiver for Heidelberg University | 2008 - 2009 |
| Tuition waiver for extraordinary achievements (best 5% of class) | |
| Fellowships and support |
| NSF Investigator-Initiated Research Project grant | 2022 - 2026 |
| NSF Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI) | 2021 - 2025 |
| Royal Society University Research Fellowship (declined) | 2021 - 2026 |
| Support for CERN institute on machine learning | 2021 |
| Support for Bethe Forum on machine learning | 2021 |
| Support for a program on machine learning at the Simons Center | 2020 |
| Support for the conference "String Pheno 2019" | 2019 |
| Support for the workshop "Physics meets ML" | 2019 |
| Support for the workshop "Machine Learning Landscape" | 2019 |
| Bonn-Cologne Graduate School | 2010 - 2013 |
| Marie Curie Initial Training Network "UNILHC" | 2012 |
| SAP Fast-Track scholarship | 2007 - 2009 |
| Baden-Württemberg scholarship | 2005 - 2006 |
| Organization of scientific meetings |
| Mathematics and ML Reunion Workshop (50 participants, Harvard, USA) | 2025 |
| One-week workshop on ML for Mathematics [Homepage] | |
| IAIFI Summer Workshop (150 participants, Harvard, USA) | 2025 |
| Annual IAIFI workshop [Homepage] | |
| IAIFI Summer School (90 participants, Harvard, USA) | 2025 |
| One-week summer school targeted at advanced students and postdocs [Homepage] | |
| String Phenomenology 2025 (160 participants, Northeastern, USA) | 2025 |
| One of the main conferences in the field of String Phenomenology [Homepage] | |
| Machine Learning for Mathematicians and Physicists (30 participants, Northeastern, USA) | 2025 |
| Two-week program targeted at PhD students with no prior experience [Homepage] | |
| JMM AMS Special Session (15 participants, Seattle, USA) | 2024 |
| American Mathematical Society "Special Session on Geometry and Machine Learning" [Homepage] | |
| Mathematics and ML Program (80 participants, Harvard, USA) | 2024 |
| Two-month program at Harvard on ML for Math [Homepage] | |
| IAIFI Summer Workshop (150 participants, MIT, USA) | 2024 |
| Annual IAIFI workshop [Homepage] | |
| IAIFI Summer School (90 participants, MIT, USA) | 2024 |
| One-week summer school targeted at advanced students and postdocs [Homepage] | |
| Aspen Winter Conference (60 participants, Aspen, USA) | 2024 |
| One-week program [Homepage] | |
| Bethe Forum on ML (20 participants, Bonn, Germany) | 2022 |
| One-week program for ML experts to form new collaborations [Homepage] | |
| Virtual "String Phenomenology 2021" (~280 registered participants, ZOOM) | 2021 |
| One of the main conferences in the field of String Phenomenology [Homepage] | |
| Virtual "String Phenomenology Seminar Series" (~100 registered participants, ZOOM) | 2021 - now |
| Weekly seminar series on topics in String Phenomenology [Homepage] | |
| String Data 2020 (90 participants, CERN (virtual), Switzerland) | 2020 |
| Annual conference on string theory and data science [Homepage] | |
| Virtual "Physics meets ML" (>2'000 registered participants, ZOOM) | 2020 - 2024 |
| Bi-weekly seminar series on topics in Machine Learning and Physics [Homepage] | |
| "Neural Networks and the Data Science Revolution" (NY, USA) | 2020 |
| 1-month program and a workshop at the Simons Center [Homepage] | |
| SIAM 2019, Mini-symposium on machine learning (Bern, Switzerland) | 2019 |
| Symposium within the conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry | |
| "String Phenomenology 2019" (160 participants, CERN, Switzerland) | 2019 |
| One of the main conferences in the field of String Phenomenology [Homepage] | |
| "String Geometry and String Phenomenology Institute" (36 participants, CERN, Switzerland) | 2019 |
| Workshop where more formal aspects of String Phenomenology are discussed [Homepage] | |
| "Physics meets ML" (80 participants, Seattle, WA, USA) | 2019 |
| Joint conference with Microsoft Research [Homepage] | |
| "Machine Learning Landscape" (40 participants, ICTP Trieste, Italy) | 2018 |
| Program on ML and energy landscapes [Homepage] | |
| "Planck 2013" (180 participants, University of Bonn, Germany) | 2013 |
| One of the main conferences on Physics beyond the Standard Model [Homepage] | |
| "Inaugural Bethe Forum" (80 participants, University of Bonn, Germany) | 2011 |
| A small workshop where experts meet to collaborate on a certain topic [Homepage] | |
| "2nd Bethe Center workshop" (80 participants, Bad Honnef, Germany) | 2010 |
| Annual Bethe Center workshop [Homepage] | |
| Institutional responsibilities |
| Head of the Summer School and Workshop Committee (IAIFI) | 2023 - now |
| Member of Community Building and Inclusion Committee (IAIFI) | 2022 - now |
| Member of Postdoc Selection Committee (IAIFI) | 2022 - now |
| Member of Website Committee (Northeastern) | 2022 - now |
| Member of Grad Admissions Committee (Northeastern) | 2022 |
| Member of Colloquium Committee (Northeastern) | 2021 - now |
| Member of the COMBAT Covid19 data analysis team (Oxford) | 2020 - 2021 |
| Organizer of the CERN string theory journal club (CERN) | 2020 - 2021 |
| Organizer of the string theory seminar (DESY) | 2014 - 2016 |
| Member of Bachelor student selection committee (Hamburg University) | 2015 |
| Webmaster of the SFB program (DESY) | 2013 - 2016 |
| Webmaster of the BCTP and the SFB Transregio (Bonn) | 2010 - 2013 |
| Referee and review activities |
| Editorial | 2022 - now |
| Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics | |
| Referee for scientific journals | 2016 - now |
| Physical Review Letters, Physical Review D, Journal of High Energy Physics, Physics Letters B, Progress in Physics, Nuclear Physics B, ML: Science & Technology, Communications in Mathematical Physics, Knot theory and its ramifications, Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras, Experimental Mathematics | |
| Referee for grant committee, publishers, conferences | 2020 - now |
| Four international grant committees, two publishers (Cambridge University Press and Princeton University Press), four conferences (Neurips Workshop on Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences) | |
| Outreach |
| Talk at local high school (International School of Boston) | 2023 |
| Science on Tap (DESY) | 2013-2016 |
| Webmaster of the SFB program (DESY) | 2013-2016 |
| Webmaster of the BCTP and the SFB Transregio (Bonn) | 2010-2013 |
| Professional Development |
| “Getting the most out of mentoring”, ADVANCE (Northeastern) | 2022 |
| “Fostering Inclusivity with Interactive Lecture Techniques”, CATLR (Northeastern) | 2021 |
| Unconscious Bias in Academia (CERN) | 2017 |
| Team Management (SAP AG) | 2006 |
| Teaching |
| "Topics in HET: String Theory and Gravity" (Northeastern University) | 2025 |
| Graduate Level course based on Wald and Ibanez-Uranga | |
| "Mathematical and Computational Methods for Physics" (Northeastern University) | 2024 |
| Undergraduate level course based on Arfken, Weber and Harris | |
| "Introduction to Particle Physics" (Northeastern University) | 2023 |
| Undergraduate level course based on Griffiths | |
| "Quantum Field Theory 1" (Northeastern University) | 2022-2025 |
| Graduate level course based on Peskin&Schroeder | |
| "General Relativity" (Northeastern University) | 2022 |
| Undergraduate level reading course based on Schutz | |
| "Physics 1" (Northeastern University) | 2021 |
| Introductory course based on the textbook by Tipler & Mosca | |
| "Introduction to Machine Learning for Physicists" (University of Oxford) | 2020 |
| Master course based on my Physics Reports | |
| "Machine learning and its applications" (Bonn University) | 2019 |
| Master course (Bethe Forum lecture series) based on my Physics Reports | |
| "The Standard Model of Particle Physics" (University of Oxford) | 2018 |
| Master course for Mathematical Physicists based on several textbooks | |
| "Groups and Representations" (University of Oxford) | 2017 - 2018 |
| Teaching tutorials and grading exercises | |
| "Electromagnetism" (Balliol College Oxford) | 2017 |
| Revision class for Balliol college based on the textbook by Jackson | |
| "Groups and Representations" (University of Oxford) | 2016 - 2017 |
| Teaching tutorials and grading exercises | |
| "Group Theory for Physicists" (Hamburg University) | 2015 - 2016 |
| Bachelor course based on the textbook by Jones | |
| "Group Theory for Mathematical Physicists" (Hamburg University) | 2015 |
| Master course based on the textbook by Fuchs and Schweigert | |
| "Advanced Topics in String Theory" (Bonn University) | 2012 |
| Organization and teaching of tutorials, exercises, and exams | |
| "Introduction to String Theory" (Bonn University) | 2011 - 2012 |
| Organization and teaching of tutorials, exercises, and exams | |
| "General Relativity and Cosmology" (Bonn University) | 2011 |
| Organization and teaching of tutorials, exercises, and exams | |
| "Standard Model and Grand Unified Theories" (Bonn University) | 2010 - 2011 |
| Organization and teaching of tutorials, exercises, and exams | |
| "Supersymmetry, Supergravity and Extra Dimensions" (Bonn University) | 2010 |
| Organization and teaching of tutorials, exercises, and exams | |
