I design, build, and evaluate ML systems at the intersection of NLP and knowledge graphs — from production pipelines and deployed APIs to peer-reviewed research. I have led multi-partner R&D projects, published in top semantic web venues, and shipped systems used in operational environments.
Technical Skills
Languages
ML / DL
Frameworks
Systems
Experience
Research Associate House of Computing and Data Science, Hamburg
- Leading a team in a multi-partner R&D project focused on AI support for emergency response
- Architecting scalable NLP and information extraction pipelines for operational text data
- Translating stakeholder requirements into deployable technical solutions
Earlier positions
Research Associate University of Hamburg
- Conducted applied research at the intersection of NLP, semantic web technologies, and knowledge graphs
- Contributed to project acquisition, technical planning, teaching and supervision of junior researchers
Research Associate Fraunhofer IAIS, Dresden
- Engineered and integrated a task-oriented dialogue system into an operational software environment
- Developed information extraction pipelines to structure and normalize information from heterogeneous text sources
Intern Fraunhofer IPA, Stuttgart
- Contributed to the development of a long-term SLAM system for mobile robotic platforms
Projects
AI · NLP
RESCUE MATE
AI tools for emergency response — real-time social media analysis, ASR pipelines, and NLP for operational environments.
rescue-mate.de ↗
NLU · Dialogue
SPEAKER
Graph-based dialogue system for task-oriented human–machine interaction with NLU components for intent and entity recognition.
speaker.fraunhofer.de ↗
Visualisation
RESCUE-MATE Crisis Map
Interactive map visualisation of crisis-related event data enriched with knowledge graph information.
Demo (not always running) ↗Education
Ph.D.
University of Hamburg
Knowledge Graph-Guided Information Extraction · 2026
Diploma in Computer Science
TU Dresden
2014 – 2019
Selected Publications View all →
Languages
GermanNative
EnglishFluent
JapaneseBasic