Always having been interested in the answers to the big and small questions about the natural world, I eventually started doing physics on a professional level at about the time when the Higgs boson was discovered at CERN. Ever since, I have been following my passion for physics in general, and (astro)particle physics in particular.
In the course of studying Technical Physics at TU Wien, Austria, I started working on data analysis and simulation aspects of low-energy particle physics projects like the HBAR antihydrogen spectroscopy experiment (ASACUSA, CERN, SMI) and the direct dark matter detection experiment CRESST (INFN, HEPHY). In time, my research activities leaned more and more towards the high-energy side of particle physics: I joined ultra-relativistic heavy-ion experiments like CBM (GSI/FAIR) and ALICE (CERN) for which I worked on algorithm development and data analysis. Eventually, my physics journey led me to take up a DKPI Ph.D. fellowship at HEPHY, Vienna, where I am part of the CMS collaboration (CERN) in the context of a search for long-lived particles beyond the standard model of particle physics.
Before starting my physics education, I was active as a musician (drums, percussion, piano) for more than a decade, in which I had the pleasure to play and perform with many different people and groups, covering genres from rock to indie to electronic to classical music to jazz. In 2010, I passed the final examination (audit of art) on drums & percussion with distinction.
Apart from physics and music, some of my main interests include reading of fantasy, hard sci-fi, and non-fiction books, coding, cyber security, evolutionary biology, machine learning and artificial intelligence, as well as sometimes watching a tad too many TV shows across the board.