I am Professor of Artificial Intelligence in Remote Sensing at Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart since 2024.
Previously, I was Assistant Professor of Computer Vision (2022 - 2024) at the School of Computer Science and Senior Scientist (2020 - 2022) at the AIML Lab of the Universität St. Gallen (Switzerland), where I gained experience in deep learning and machine learning.
Before that, my research focused on a completely different field: solar system astronomy. As a postdoc and associate researcher at Northern Arizona University (2013 - 2018) and as an astronomer at Lowell Observatory (2018 - 2020), I used ground-based and space-based telescopic observations as well as numerical models to study the physical properties of asteroids and comets, and developed scientific software.
Before becoming an astronomer, I earned my doctorate in geosciences at Freie Universität Berlin after completing my dissertation project at the Deutschen Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) (2009 - 2013). My academic career began with a diploma in physics, which I completed at Universität Heidelberg (2004 - 2009).