CV

Education

• M.Sc. in Quantitative Finance, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 10/2021 - current
  • Courses: Computational Finance, Inferential Statistics, Time Series Econometrics, Multivariate Timeseries Analysis & Forecasting
  • Seminar: Identifying (volatility-)regimes in the EUR/USD spot exchange rate using clustering algorithms. (Python, see Github)
• B.Sc. in Business Administration with a core profile in Energy and Finance, University Duisburg-Essen (Campus Essen), 10/2018 - 10/2021
  • Final Grade: 2,1 (GPA: ~3,0, Upp. sec. class 2.1)
  • Bachelor thesis: Is liquidity risk still priced in the cross-section of US stocks? (R, Python based) Grade: 1,3 (GPA: 3,7, see Github)
  • Courses: Investment and Finance, Asset Management, Introduction to Derivatives, Descriptive Statistics, Statistical Inference, Business Statistics, Introduction to Econometrics, Database Management Systems, Statistics and Computing

Professional Experience

• Kiel Institute for the World Economy (Kiel) 02/2026 - 05/2026
• Scientific assisstance - LaTex Formatting
  • Implementation of the new corporate design in LaTeX/Overleaf templates (e.g. working papers, presentations, policy briefs)
  • Further development and maintenance of existing LaTeX templates
  • Creation of short instructions/guides on how to use the templates Support for institute staff in using the templates (e.g. via email, chat or short screen sharing sessions)
  • Troubleshooting LaTeX error messages and formatting problems

• University Duisburg-Essen, Chair of Finance (Prof. Dr. Jacobs) (Essen/remote) 06/2023 - 12/2023
• Scientific assistance - Quantitative Research & NLP Programming
  • Quantitative research on news sentiment and short sale activities on primarily European equities (Python - NLP Models)
  • Support of the chair in data science projects around current questions of empirical asset pricing and paper publishing
  • Implemented calculation of the Kaplan-Zingales and the size-age index according to Hadlock and Pierce to measure the (abnormal) investment behavior of companies as well as querying news data using Lexis-Nexis and its Python API

• Vattenfall Energy Trading GmbH (Hamburg) 12/2022 - current
• Working Student Data Science in the Trading Analysis & Algorithms Unit
  • Identifying, reviewing, and integrating (new) information and sources/feeds for market or fundamental data, e.g., building web scrapers or data quality monitoring tools, further developing and automating routines/ applications for analysis-related data flows
  • Further developing the fundamental and mathematical market modelling, incl. utilizing machine learning approaches
  • Developing Dashboards (streamlit) for Trade Idea Generation and assessing trade opportunities with self-developed measures

• Deutsche Börse Group, EUREX Frankfurt AG (Frankfurt am Main) 07/2022 - 11/2022
• Internship Fixed Income Analysis/ ETD Product Design
  • Designed business and trading analytics using both Apache zeppelin, PySpark and Streamlit web platforms amongst others to handle and process large and complex data sets taken from Eurex T7 System and the Bloomberg-Terminal
  • Carried out Quantitative research to forecast FI futures trading volume (linear regression, ARIMA, SARIMA, ARIMAX)
  • Created an automated tool to monitor EU bond issuances using Bloomberg BQL as well as a Python-based web scraper to collect FX derivatives data for client presentations, market reports and management board decisions

• Deutsche Bundesbank (Frankfurt am Main) 02/2022 - 05/2022
• Internship in the Market Intelligence and Analysis Unit
  • Created a supply chain dashboard with heat map and custom-built scoring model using Tableau, Python and Bloomberg
  • Created, supported, updated and adapted internally set up tools for derivative strategies & derivative monitoring as well as for liquidity monitoring for German and US government bonds to assess the current state of the capital-markets
  • Regular work with Bloomberg, Excel, Tableau and Python (incl. libraries Pandas, Numpy, Seaborn, OpenPyxl and XlWings)

• Statista GmbH (Hamburg) 11/2021 - 03/2023
• Working student Data Analytics at Statista Q (Data Science branch of Statista)
  • preparation of descriptive statistics and reports
  • Online research activities within the framework of international projects
  • Research of company key figures, sales contacts and other relevant data
  • Processing and cleaning of all kinds of data
  • Datavalidation and Dataresearch
  • API Testing and Integration
  • Software: R, Python

• IVC - Independent Valuation and Consulting AG WPG (Essen) 04/2021 - 06/2021
• Internship - Research Analyst
  • Application of capital value-oriented valuation methods (capitalised earnings value method and DCF method)
  • support in the valuation of financial instruments for accounting purposes
  • Use of (Excel-based) IVC tools for valuations and the collection of market parameters
  • Application of the databases of S&P Capital IQ and Refinitiv
  • Determination of cost of capital (base rates and risk premiums, especially unlevered/debt betas as well as credit spreads)

• University Duisburg-Essen, Chair of Marketing and Retailing (Prof. Dr. Schröder) (Essen) 03/2019 - 08/2020
• Student Assistant Procurement and Purchasing
  • Support with research projects: Research and preparation of reports
  • Independent project work: preparation and implementation of an internship regulars’ table
  • Maintenance of the chair’s internet presence with the content management system TYPO3
  • Support with administrative tasks in the chair secretariat
  • support of the procurement/purchasing department
  • Implementation of new procurement guidelines, integration of these into the process workflow
  • Insight into the structure and booking system as well as the administrative processing of payment transactions of the university

Skills

• Programming Languages: Python, R, SQL, Basic knowledge in: Java, HTML, CSS, STATA, Matlab
• Big Data & Machine Learning: Python (Sklearn, PyTorch, SciPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Shap, ReportLab, PPTX, glob)
• Additional: Financial databases (Bloomberg-Terminal, Refinitiv Reuters and S&P Capital IQ), Tableau, SAP SRM, SPSS, LaTeX • APIs: NewsAPI, YahooFinance, Meteostat, PyTrends, Energy Quantified, EntsoE, Streamlit Dashboards, ECB Data Portal
• Programming Environments and Architecture: REST, GIT, Github, MS Azure, OOP, Debugging, Command line Tools, Docker, Kubernetes, Hadoop, Spark
• Webscraping and NLP: Requests, Selenium, BeautifoulSoup, NLTK, FinBert, Bert, Loughran-McDonald Dictionary

Projects & Leadership

• Studienkompass - Stiftung der deutschen Wirtschaft (Kiel) 03/2024 - 06/2026
• Youth Mentor
  • On-site support and individual advice for participants
  • Guidance and support for young people in the implementation of both individual and cross-group projects for study and career orientation
  • Organization and coordination of regional events such as lectures, camps, excursions, digital group meetings for exchange, etc. (every 4-6 weeks)
  • Designing and implementing the content of workshops, and a regular coordination within the mentoring team, as well as with the full-time regional coordinator and support program trainers

• DLRG - German Association for Live Saving (Kiel) 05/2024 - current
• Life guard and Rescue boat driver
  • water rescue
  • regatta support
  • boat service

• Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (Kiel)
• Tutor, A-level student project: Ask A Student (AAS)
  • several iterations:
    • 11/2022 - 12/2022
    • 03/2023 - 06/2023
    • 11/2023 - 12/2023
    • 03/2024 - 06/2024
    • 11/2024 - 12/2024
    • 03/2025 - 06/2025
    • 11/2025 - 12/2025

• Special Olympics World Games (Berlin) 06/2023
• Key Volunteer Venue Management (Futsal and Hockey)

• European Championships (Munich) 08/2022
• Volunteer Management, Technical Logistics

• Special Olypmpics (Kiel) 05/2022
• Volunteer - Swimming

• e-fellows.net (remote) 09/2021
• Student Volunteer
  • Startschuss Abi-Nord 2021
  • Startschuss Abi-NRW 2021

• Academic Stock Exchange Association Bochum e. V. (ABB .e .V.) (Ruhr-Area) 11/2020 - 06/2023
• Vice Chairman of the Board
  • Administrative activities related to the life of the association
  • Initialisation of series of lectures and new formats on topics of quantitative finance
  • Promoting discourse on developments in capital and technology markets
  • Lectures I gave:
    • Are dividends actually disappearing? Global evidence
    • The Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm for time series forecasting
    • The ARIMA model and other time series models
    • Hedging strategies with derivative financial instruments
    • Sea wave forecasting systems and their application in the financial/energy sector
    • Python for Excel: Using xlwings to automate Spreadsheets

• University Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Business and Economics (Essen) 09/2020 - 09/2021
• First Semester Tutor
  • supporting first-semester students in orientation, organisation
  • Providing information on the key points of studying business administration
  • Contact person for self- and time management as well as learning techniques
  • Peer learning
  • Study counselling and pointing out job prospects

• PTSV - Preetzer Turn und Sportverein e.V. (Preetz) 10/2016 - 12/2017
• Athletics Instructor
  • training planning and preparation
  • Organisation and organisation of competitions
  • Establishment of a fitness room for the athletics department
  • interdepartmental cooperation within the club
  • Competition-oriented athlete preparation

Additional Information

• Languages
  • German (native)
  • English (fluent)
  • French (basic knowledge)
• Interests
  • competitive athletics
  • powerlifting
  • kiteboarding/wakeboarding
  • road cycling
  • archery
  • reading (math, physics, psychology)