Curriculum Vitae
Profile
- Systems Engineer combining a deep background in computational physics with hands-on experience developing secure, real-time software for safety-critical embedded systems.
- Expertise in C/C++, real-time concurrent programming (RTOS), and hardware-in-the-loop debugging, coupled with secure coding practices and vulnerability analysis.
- Deep mathematical and algorithmic foundation in numerical PDEs, stochastic methods, and large-scale physical simulations.
- Experienced with AI systems, from training physics-informed neural networks via PyTorch to designing multi-agent systems and workflows.
Work Experience
- Developed MISRA-C conformant software modules implementing security across the full automotive Ethernet stack — TLS, IPsec/IKE, MACsec/MKA, firewall, and IDPS — shipped in cars worldwide.
- Conducted hands-on security reviews and penetration testing on embedded targets. Evaluated threat vectors and scored vulnerabilities (CVSS) to harden the software stack.
- Executed unit, integration, and system-level testing, including Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) conformance testing. Applied static analysis, fuzzing, and code coverage analysis. Ensured ASPICE-compliant requirement traceability.
- Built an integrated system-test environment (Docker, virtual Ethernet, packet capture) for stress testing and blackbox interoperability against third-party implementations of MKA, TLS, IPsec, and SOME/IP.
- Debugged (Trace32, GDB), profiled, and optimized real-time preemption and concurrency on automotive ECUs.
- Maintained CI/CD release pipelines (Jenkins, Git) and customer support for integration and production.
- Lectured bachelor/master courses and supervised thesis projects in computational physics.
- Developed a general-purpose high-performance simulation program for quantum many-body systems.
Simulation of laser-matter interaction — novel many-body methods, numerical computing (C++/Fortran), HPC clusters.
CFD and heat transfer simulations (Star-CCM+) of water cooling systems in EV power electronics (2010) and moisture droplet condensation in vehicle headlight chambers (2009).
Visits
Engineered TCAM-based hardware-accelerated firewalls for high-performance packet filtering and security policy lookups. Performed security analyses and implemented Scapy-based test suites.
Research collaboration on advanced propagation techniques to handle strong-field excitation of heavy atoms.
Education
Focus: Operating systems, formal methods, signal processing, and deep learning. 53.5 ECTS completed.
- Thesis: Time-dependent two-particle reduced density matrix theory: application to multi-electron atoms and molecules in strong laser pulses. Passed with distinction.
- Supervisors: Joachim Burgdörfer and Iva Brezinova (Institute for Theoretical Physics).
Focus: Computational physics and simulation. Passed with distinction.
Focus: Semiclassical and classical mechanics. Passed with distinction.