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Ph.D.

Justus Liebig University Giessen, Gießen, Germany

• ML, NLP, Economics of Innovation, Industrial Dynamics
• Thesis title | ‘Essays on the Application of Statistical Learning in Empirical Economic Research’
• Final grade | magna cum laude (equivalent to an A grade)

M.Sc.

Otto Friedrich University Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany

• Economics, Statistics and Statistical Programming
• Thesis title | ‘The Nonlinearity of Crises Machine Learning Approaches to Economic Forecasting’
• Final grade | 1.0 (equivalent to an A grade)

B.Sc.

Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

• Economics, Statistics and Finance
• Thesis title | ‘Tax Incentives for International Profit Shifting within Multinational Groups - An empirical Analysis’
• Final grade | 1.1 (equivalent to an A grade)

Exchange Semester

Temple University, Philadelphia, USA

• Final grade | 4.0 (equivalent to an A grade)

High School Diploma

Kaufmännische Schule Hechingen, Hechingen, Germany

• Final grade | 1.0 (equivalent to an A grade)

Risk Manager and Data Scientist

BMW Group Financial Services, Munich, Germany

• Developing statistical models to support decision making in the setting of residual values of used car vehicles
• Implementing machine learning algorithms to improve the efficiency and accuracy of risk processes

Researcher and Data Scientist

ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, Mannheim, Germany

• Application of machine learning methods and natural language processing in economic research
• Data infrastructure projects (including firm-level microdata and unstructured webdata)
• Completion of a 120-hours course on deep learning
• Political consulting projects on e.g. the economic effects of the corona pandemic

Working Student Data Analytics

TeamBank AG, Nürnberg, Germany

• Using machine learning methods to analyze consumer behavior
• Learning Python programming in a hands-on project (predict customer retention)
• Learning source code version control using Git

Internship Stress Testing and Quantitative Analyses

Federal Reserve Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

• NLP project of banking related news as automated way to filter public sentiment towards banking sector (sentiment analysis, topic modelling)

Working Student Digital Factory

Siemens, Erlangen, Germany

• Full automation of the previously Excel-based CRM management report using R
• Developing metrics to assess sales opportunities within the digitization-related product portfolio at Siemens

Internship Riskmanagement

BMW Credit Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Setting up residual value risk related processes for the launch of a new finance lease product
• Scorecard performance monitoring and standard risk cost validation in credit risk

Internship Riskcontrolling

BMW Group Financial Services, Munich, Germany

• Validating, analyzing and monitoring risk indicators during the month-closing processes

• Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes

• Baden-Württemberg-Stipendium
• German-American Fulbright Commission

• Deutschlandstipendium