Education
2023
SCRUM Master & Product Owner (Part II)
ICO - International Certification OrganizationITEMO SCRUM Master Part II (Professional) & Product Owner Part II (Professional)
2022
Doctorate (Dr.-Ing.)
Technische Universität BerlinOn the topic of Privacy-preserving Geofencing - the thesis was submitted on May 4th, 2022 - the scientific defense was held on December 6th, 2022.
2022
SCRUM Master & Product Owner
ICO - International Certification OrganizationITEMO SCRUM Master & Product Owner Part I (Foundation)
2014 - 2016
Software Campus Alumnus
Technische Universität Berlin, Telekom Innovation Laboratories, Federal Ministry of Education and Research2014
Training Courses
Software Campus- Leadership as a Lifestyle, Deutsche Telekom AG, Berlin, Germany
- Conflicts in Leadership Situations, Deutsche Post DHL Group, Bonn, Germany
- Creativity & Innovation, Datev eG, Nürnberg, Germany
- Foundations of Scenario Planning, Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany
- Intercultural Awareness, SAP, Walldorf, Germany
- Reviving Creative Potentials, Software AG, Darmstadt, Germany
2010
Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (Cambridge CELTA)
Thames Valley University, Reading, England2009
Certificate of Proficiency in English (Cambridge ESOL)
Reading, England1996 - 2002
Diploma in Computer Science
Technische Universität Berlin1992 - 1995
University-entrance Diploma
Oberstufenzentrum für Elektro- und EnergietechnikExperience
2025
IT-Architect for Identity & Access Management
IT-Dienstleistungszentrum Berlin (ITDZ)2021 - 2024
IT-Architect for Self-Sovereign Identity
Stadt Köln, Amt für Informationsverarbeitung, IDunion project (funded by BMWi)2012 - 2020
Research Assistant, Doctoral Candidate
Technische Universität Berlin, Telekom Innovation LaboratoriesDissertation
Completed six German- and EU-funded research projects successfully (Portfolio)
- Implementation of research and project prototypes
- Participation and completion of a research project with the Telekom Innovation Laboratory (T-Labs)
- Working on and submitting over thirty project proposals in Germany (BMBF, BMWi) and the European Union (Horizon 2020 and EIT)
- Funding for six project proposals attracted
- Publication of twenty research papers, including international conferences, national journals, and book chapters
- Participation and presentations at over ten international research conferences, incl. IEEE
- Supervising and leading personnel, including new researchers and assistants
- Communication with national and international funding offices
- Approaching potential (international) project partners
- Full project reporting life cycle
Over 2,568,000€ national and international funding attracted
Projects successfully completed (Portfolio)
- SSI4de - Self-Sovereign Identity for Germany (IDunion) (BMWi, 2020)
- GRAVITY and CityBeamer (EIT, 2020)
- DIMS - Decentralized Identity Management System (EIT, including successful proposal, 2019)
- IdentityChain (EIT, 201)
- PARADISE - Privacy-enhancing And Reliable Anti-Doping Integrated Service Environment (BMBF, including successful proposal, 2016-2018)
- Curcuma - Cloud Computing Location Metadata (Software Campus, BMBF, including successful proposal, 2014-2016)
- TRESOR - TRusted Ecosystem for Standardized and Open and cloud-based Resources (BMWi, including successful project extension, 2012-2015)
Teaching and supervising students:
- Over twenty diploma, bachelor, and master theses
- Preparation and assessorship of oral and written exams
- Organization of and teaching in lectures, projects, and seminars:
- Internet of Services Lab (IoSL)
- Usable Privacy Seminar
- Business Processes and IT Services
- Organization of and presentation at public project presentations and national research meetups
- Organization of and presentation at two international hackathons
2008 - 2010
Research Assistant
University of Reading, Intelligent Media Systems & Services Research Centre (IMSS), School of Systems Engineering, Reading, England- Worked in the EU-funded project HYDRA (networked embedded system middleware for heterogeneous physical devices in a distributed architecture)
2003 - 2007
Employee, Researcher
Technische Universität Berlin, tubIT - IT Service-Center, Berlin, Germany- Developing IT administration software and working on the introduction of smartcard services
2000 - 2002
Student Assistant
, Technische Universität Berlin, PRZ - Prozessrechner Zentrale, Berlin, Germany- Supporting the development of administration software and smartcard services Miscellaneous