About Me

Research Assistant at the Multimodal AI Lab at TU Darmstadt

March 2025 — Present

At the Multimodal AI Lab, I contribute to research projects on automated fact-checking systems combating misinformation.

• DEFAME Paper (ICML 2025): Supported the development of a state-of-the-art multimodal fact-checking system by setting up and running experiments, performing failure case analysis, and enhancing custom datasets.
• Multimodal Fact-Checking Benchmark: Contributing to the development of a new benchmark based on real-world claims by building parts of the automated scraping and processing pipeline, implementing a human annotation tool, and conducting quality analyses between human and automated annotations.

Master's Degree in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, TU Darmstadt, Germany

October 2024 — Present

Master's Degree in CS, TU Darmstadt, Germany

April 202 — Present

Exchange Semester, Aalto University, Finland

September 2024 — December 2024

During my Master's degree, I spent a semester abroad at Aalto University, diving into specialized Machine Learning applications across marine, biological, and biomedical domains. Beyond technical coursework, I broadened my skill set through the entrepreneurship courses Digital Business Management, Starting Up, and Entrepreneurship Essentials.

Working Student, DATAbility GmbH, Germany

December 2023 — September 2024

As a working student at DATAbility GmbH, I worked on various data science and machine learning projects.

• E-Vehicle Charging: Predicted charging curves for EV stations using historical data and 15-minute interval power consumption.
• Anomaly Detection: Developed a statistical model to identify unusual error patterns in truck production data.
• Vehicle Part Recognition: Compared CNNs, ViT, and few-shot learning methods for classifying similar-looking vehicle parts from images.
• Synthetic Data Generation: Created a process to generate coherent, meaningful data using LLaMA for text fields.
• Email Inquiry Analysis: Implemented a RAG system with LlamaIndex to extract relevant information from stored data for incoming emails.

Bachelor's Degree in CS, TU Darmstadt, Germany

October 2020 — June 2024

I finished my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at TU Darmstadt, with focus on Machine Learning and Data Science. As a member of the Sailing Team at TU Darmstadt I also collaborated in building fully autonomous and energy self-sufficient sailboats to compete in competitions and to ultimately cross the Atlantic Ocean.

Exchange Semester, UIUC, USA

January 2023 — May 2023

During my Bachelor's degree, I spent a semester abroad at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I took courses in Machine Learning and Data Science.

Internship, Okadis Consulting GmbH, Germany

November 2022 — December 2022

During a two-month internship at Okadis Consulting GmbH, I worked on different software engeneering projects on the SAP platform S4/HANA using SAP's programming language ABAP.

• Implementation of an application that calculates individual repayment plans for loans based on given specifications for the user.
• Testing and debugging of an application for transferring SAP namespaces to ensure that requirements for reliability and integrity are met.
• Conception, implementation, and delivery of an application for automatically setting deletion markings for business partners that comply with DSGVO regulations for a credit bank, including presentation to the client and coordination of detailed requirements.

Teaching Assistant, TU Darmstadt, Germany

April 2022 — September 2022

During the summer semester 2022 I was a teaching assistant for the course C/C++ Programming Lab. I was responsible for supervising and correcting homeworks, manage the online forum and revise tasks.

Teaching Assistant, TU Darmstadt, Germany

October 2021 — March 2022

During the winter semester 21/22 I was a teaching assistant for the course Digital Technology. I was responsible for leading an exercise group, manage the online forum and correct homework as well as the final exam.

Abitur, Friedrich-Dessauer-Gymnasium, Germany

2017 — 2020

I graduated from Friedrich-Dessauer-Gymnasium in 2020 with English and Computer Science as my specalized courses.