2011-now

• Freelance work as a programmer, specializing in (but not constrained to) computer vision. Initially working on tracking software for TapeMyDay as subcontractor of Createk.

2005-2011

• PhD work on neuromorphic vision algorithms as part of the MCCOOP and SEARISE projects with the Fraunhofer Geselleschaft on the campus in Birlinghoven. Initially we (that is the project coordinator, Marina Kolesnik, my Colleague Andy Stynen, and I) where at the Institute for Media and Communication (IMK) but that was absorbed into another Institute and just before we moved over to Institute for Applied Information Technology where I worked for the remainder of the SEARISE project.

2003-2004

• Physics (major) and Neuroinformatics (minor), ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• summer student research work on organic electronic device characterization, modeling and simulation
• Diploma Thesis 'Characterization and Simulation of Pentacene TFTs
• Internship analysing and characterizing a neuromorphic analog circuit

1999-2001

• Physics (major) and Information Technology (minor), Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany
• Vordiplom

1999

• Abitur (high school degree) Bad Gandersheim, Germany

1996-1997

• Student Exchange year Cashmere High school, Christchurch, New Zealand