About me

I grew up in the rural, beautiful Odenwald. The only thing it lacks is a university, so after school I moved to Heidelberg to fulfil my childhood dream and study Astronomy. Time flies and by now I have been there for over a decade. I obtained my PhD at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut in the research group of Kathryn Kreckel. As part of phangs – a worldwide collaboration that has built up an impressive collection of astronomical observations – I study the different components of the ionized gas in nearby galaxies. This ranges from H II regions, which are powered by newly formed massive stars, to Planetary Nebulae, which represent the stunning last glow of smaller stars.

I do a lot of data science in my job and I also like to apply this knowledge to everyday topics – ranging from analyzing my movie diary to mapping historic data. I am also a big fan of typography and as such love to typeset nice looking documents with LaTeX. Other projects like this website originated out of curiosity to try something new – and so far I really appreciate its use for me. It serves as a practical companion that I can use to browse through completed projects.

About this site

This is my personal website that I use as a public notebook. To keep things short, the website ...

• ... tries to be a digital garden.
• ... is coded from scratch without relying on a site generator.
• ... is created with the help of the Python packages markdown and Jinja.
• ... has a few pieces of php, for example to load an RSS feed.
• ... uses JavaScript libraries like Prism and MathJax to display code and formulas.

But most importantly, it is always work in progress. Unfortunately, this also means that links might change over time and some old ones may lead to nowhere. For a more technical description, take a look at this post.