I am an experimental particle physicist, working at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY in Hamburg. As a lecturer (Privatdozent), I teach courses at the University of Hamburg and at the Leibniz University of Hannover. I am a Fulbright-Cottrell Scholar since 2024.

I am a member of the CMS Collaboration at the LHC, the H1 Collaboration at HERA and the Gfitter group. I am a key researcher of the Excellence Cluster “Quantum Universe“.

I studied physics at the University of Technology in Vienna (TU Wien) where I graduated in 2007 with a thesis on theoretical nuclear physics. Afterwards, I joined the Max-Planck-Institute Munich, where I worked on the H1 experiment at the HERA collider. I received my PhD from the University of Hamburg in 2011 with a thesis on jet production in deep-inelastic scattering. I was employed as a DESY Fellow until 2012 when I joined the University of Hamburg as a research associate. I became a staff scientist at DESY in 2021 and received the title of Privatdozent in the same year. In 2024, I received the Fulbright-Cottrell Award for integrating outstanding research with innovative teaching.

My research focuses on the analysis of data from the CMS experiment at the LHC, the interpretation of particle physics data, and the development of new analysis techniques.