Education

2021-2025: Doctor of Philosophy in Atomic & Laser Physics (DPhil) - The University of Oxford
- Controlling Quantum Systems at the Pulse Level: Cavity QED and beyond
- Experience with optics, electronics, atomic physics, software engineering (numerical simulations, data analysis and machine learning)
- Student Athlete: Oxford University Boat Club
2017-2021: Master of Physics and Philosophy (MPhysPhil) - The University of Oxford
- First Class Honours
- Student Athlete: two time Lightweight Boat Race Winner & Full Blue
2017: International Bacalaureate - Berlin International School

Professional Experience

2025-: Research Resident - Normal Computing
- Developing novel chip architectures for ML workloads and AI based EDA tools for accelerating chip development.
2023: Quantum Engineering Internship - Riverlane
- Worked towards building scaleable control systems for next-generation quantum computers, developed pulse engineering IP and contributed to API.
CreatorFund VC
- 2023-2024: Investment Partner
- 2022-2023: Advisor
2019: Blockchain Developer Internship - SAP Innovation Centre
- Exploring public blockchains for micropayment processing, development of PoC's & presentation to leadership team.

2023: ETHLondon Hackathon Finalist
- Built QuantumOracles, a federated quantum computing cloud interface which allowed users to submit algorithms to several computers and receive an aggregated result.
2022: NQCC Hackathon - third place overall
- Benchmarked quantum and classical algorithms for QUBO problems
2022: EthGlobal Hacakthon Finalist
- We built an on-chain retroactive public goods funding platform and were selected as one of the finalist teams.
2020: Scholar of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
2019: SAP FastTrack Programme
- Reserved for the top 10% highest performing students working for SAP in the DACH region. Excellence in motivation, collaboration and commitment.