• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Computer Vision
• Remote Sensing of Earth

• Ph.D. (Earth Sciences), Free University of Berlin, 2013, thesis title: "Remnant Planetesimals and their Collisional Fragments"
• Dipl-Phys. (MSc. equivalent in Physics with focus on astronomy and computational physics), University of Heidelberg, 2009

• since 2022: Assistant Professor for Computer Vision, University of St. Gallen
• 2020 -2022: Senior Researcher, University of St. Gallen
• 2018 - 2020: Astronomer, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, USA
• 2013 - 2018: Post-Doc/Research Associate, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, USA

• Spring Term 2023: Machine Learning (BBWL)

Previous teaching activities:

• Fall Term 2022: Capstone-Project focus area Entrepreneurial Informatics (BBWL)
• Fall Term 2022: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (MBI)
• Spring Term 2022: Machine Learning (BBWL)
• University of St. Gallen: teaching assistant (Fall Term 2020 - Fall Term 2021)
• Northern Arizona University: Python for Scientists (Spring Term 2016, Fall Term 2016), Science Communication Graduate Seminar (Fall Term 2015)
• University of Heidelberg: teaching assistant (Fall Term 2007 - Fall Term 2009)

• Swiss Commission on Remote Sensing (SCRS)
• IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS)
• Swiss Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (SGPF)
• German Society for Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation (DGPF)