Education
2014–2018
Dr. rer. nat. at the University of Konstanz, Department of Computer and Information Science.
Thesis title: Collaborative Augmented Reality: Designing for Co-located and Distributed Spatial Activities.
2009–2012
M.Sc., Information Engineering at the University of Konstanz, Department of Computer and Information Science.
Thesis title: Reality-based Interaction Styles for the Manipulation of Process Variables in Control Room Environments.
2003–2007
B.Sc., Computer Science in Media at Hochschule Furtwangen University.
Thesis title: Semantic Web in der betrieblichen Weiterbildung – Relevanz und Realisierbarkeit.
Experience
vocational
since May 2019
Senior UX/Usability Researcher at Daimler Truck AG, Stuttgart.
Design and Evaluation of operating and display concepts.
2012–2019
Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant at the University of Konstanz, Department of Computer and Information Science.
Research Activities: Requirements Analysis, User-centered Design & Prototyping, Evaluation & User Studies.
Teaching Activities: Interactive Systems, Usability Engineering (Design), Usability Engineering (Evaluation), Interaction in Mixed Reality Spaces.
2009–2010
Lecturer at Stuttgart Media University, Faculty of Print and Media.
Course title: Foundations of Computer Science.
2009–2010
Web Front End Developer (Freelance collaborator) at Aurenz Software & Consulting, Nürtingen.
Activities: User interface design and implementation.
2007–2009
Web Front End Developer at Aurenz Software & Consulting, Nürtingen.
Activities: User interface design and implementation.
Internships
2010–2011
Working Student at Siemens AG, Corporate Unit Technology, Munich.
Activities: Design, implementation, and evaluation of user interface prototypes for control rooms; co-authoring of patent applications.
2006–2007
Working Student at IBM Learning – Internal Education, Herrenberg.
Activities: Development and re-design of e-learning modules for the IBM business unit "Enterprise InformationWarehouse."
2006
Student Researcher at Audience Research Labs (formerly “Interactive Television Research Institute”), Perth, Western Australia.
Activities: Research on co-viewing behaviour on TV and iTV design.
2004–2005
Student Apprentice at V4 GmbH (formerly "V4 Media GmbH"), Stuttgart.
Activities: Video production, design and implementation of business websites.
Languages
German
Native Speaker
English
Fluent
French
Conversant
Skills & Tools
Design and Prototyping
Tools
Illustrator, Axure, Sketch, Photoshop, Premiere, 3ds Max, Premiere, PowerPoint.
Environments
Unity, Android Studio, Visual Studio, Processing, Arduino IDE.
Languages
Java/Android, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Python, C, C#.
Data Analysis
Tools
RStudio, SPSS, KNIME.