Project Manager for the Helmholtz Transfer Academy "Future Innovators". Interested in anything that can solve problems. Trying to unlock the potential of scientific development to also solve short-term problems of the real-world.

Image Registration, (Underwater) Optical Mapping, Robotic Vision, SLAM, AUV, ROV, UAV, Robotic Planar Pushing, Human-Robot Interaction

I am a staff data scientist at the GEOMAR Helmholtz-Centre for Ocean Research Kiel. My work aims to explore the oceans with methods of machine-learning and image-analysis.

My research focus is on turning Terabytes of image data into quantitative information …

In situ imaging of marine animals (e.g. zooplankton)
Application of imaging tools for ecological research
Development of novel imaging technology