CV
Positions, education, funding, talks, service and awards.
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Education
- 04/2025 – today
Master of Arts in Higher Education
University of Hamburg
- 11/2019 – 08/2023
PhD in Business Administration
University of Hamburg
Emphasis on operations research, graduated summa cum laude
Dissertation: Essays on Applied Optimization
- 10/2017 – 08/2019
Master of Science in Business Administration
University of Hamburg
Emphasis on logistics, average mark 1.59
Thesis: Minimizing Split-Deliveries through Improved Product-Warehouse Allocations
- 10/2013 – 07/2016
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
University of Hamburg
Emphasis on logistics and marketing
Thesis: Forecasting Crude Oil Prices with Neural Networks
Experience
- 01/2024 – today
Research Associate (Habilitation)
University of Hamburg
Pursuing the habilitation, project work and university lecturer at the Institute of Logistics, Transport and Production (Prof. Dr. Knut Haase)
- 04/2023 – today
Founder
BeyondSimulations GmbH
Transfers optimization research into practice: mathematical programming, geo-spatial data analysis, and discrete-event simulation for industry and public-sector clients
Projects include periodic routing for nine mobile libraries serving over 1,100 stops, cutting driven distance by 13–33% per area, transport-demand simulation of the FIFA World Cup 2022 across up to 800,000 agents a day, and warehouse simulation across 1M+ SKUs
- 10/2023 – 10/2026
Co-Founder
decorum SOLAR GmbH
Company specializing in the installation of small photovoltaic systems in Hamburg
Exit: shareholding sold, closing October 2026
- 11/2019 – 12/2023
Research Assistant
University of Hamburg
Project work and university teacher at the Institute of Logistics, Transport and Production (Prof. Dr. Knut Haase)
- 04/2014 – 09/2019
Earlier positions
Working Student, Digitization (IFB Hamburg) · Tour Guide (Waterkant) · Research Assistant (Hamburg Media School) · Tour Guide (Die Landpartie) · HR Researcher (Goodgame Studios)
Funding
- 2026
Teaching grant, project “Mehr UDL in der Lehre”
Universal Design for Learning in a first-year lecture, University of Hamburg · EUR 2,000
- 2025
Claussen-Simon-Stiftung project grant
AI-supported Socratic tutoring in higher education · EUR 6,000
- 2023
Faculty research grant
Optimization for international student allocation, University of Hamburg · EUR 5,000
Talks
- 03/26
Evaluation of On-Demand Line-Based Bus Services
QBWL 2026, Schloss Hirschberg, Beilngries
- 09/25
“Is that still your own work?” Generative AI in assessed coursework (impulse and panel)
KI Hands-on #8, DDLitLab / Hub for Crossdisciplinary Learning, University of Hamburg
- 09/24
Controlling the Transport Demand of the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar
OR 2024, Munich
- 09/24
Is AI the answer to the skilled-labour shortage? (panel)
FILog / ddn Hamburg (KWB e.V.), Hamburg
- 06/24
Simulating traffic flows at large-scale events (talk and panel)
HEY/MOBILITY HAMBURG, Hamburg Chamber of Commerce
- 08/23
Simulating the Transport Demand in Cities Hosting Large-Scale Events
OR 2023, Hamburg
- 06/23
Controlling Passenger Flows into Metro Systems to Mitigate Overcrowding during Large-Scale Events
Working Group “Logistics and Transport”, Frankfurt am Main
- 09/22
The Sales Force Deployment Problem for Teams of Sales Representatives Within Sales Territories
OR 2022, Karlsruhe
- 07/22
Police Service District Planning
EURO 2022, Aalto University, Helsinki
- 03/21
Strategic Emergency Service District Planning
QBWL 2021 (online)
Invited guest lectures
- 05/24 – 05/26
Leadership & Coaching · Planning & Control
BSP Business & Law School, Campus Hamburg (Prof. Dr. Johannes C. Schwarze) · with Dr. Nils Roemer · 4 workshops
Supervision
- 2020 – today
Bachelor's and Master's theses
University of Hamburg
34 theses completed since 2020, 15 of them master's theses. Currently roughly 10–15 per year plus seminar theses, on applied optimization, simulation, and analytics. Master's theses mostly with industry partners
Academic service
- 2025 – today
Reviewer
European Journal of Operational Research · Transportation Research Part B · Socio-Economic Planning Sciences · International Journal of Health Geographics
- 2025 – today
Member of the Examination Board (Prüfungsausschuss)
Faculty of Business, University of Hamburg
- 2024 – today
Coordinator, Bachelor mentoring program
Business Administration, University of Hamburg · with Prof. Dr. Knut Haase · ~20 mentors · ~250 mentees
- 2023
International Conference on Operations Research (GOR), University of Hamburg
Software
- 2026 – today
EU-hosted platform for building AI chatbots grounded in one's own documents, websites, or course material. Socratic tutoring in higher education is one such application. Continuation of the Claussen-Simon-funded open-source project
- 2025 – today
Optimization software for mobile library routing, basis of the periodic vehicle routing case study
- 2023 – today
Course websites combining theory, executable code, and self-assessment, such as Applied Optimization and Programming with Python
Skills
- Languages
- German (native) · English (IELTS 8.0, C1) · Russian (advanced)
- Programming
- Julia · Python · SQL · TypeScript · Rust · Gurobi · HiGHS · SCIP · OR-Tools · JuMP · GAMS · PyTorch · scikit-learn · LLM/RAG pipelines · PostgreSQL · PostGIS · QGIS · KNIME · Docker · Quarto · Makie · Svelte
Awards
- 04/26
Teaching Award Winter 2025/26, 1st place
University of Hamburg Business School
For the lecture “Applied Optimization”, category elective lecture
- 2025
Hamburg Teaching Prize 2025
For the master lecture “Applied Optimization” · EUR 10,000
- 06/24
Hamburg Teaching Prize 2024
For the bachelor lecture “Fundamentals of Operations Research” · EUR 10,000
- 08/23
PhD awarded summa cum laude