Projects and Activities
On this page you find a list of projects I have organized and run. Furthermore, this page also lists journals and conferences for which I have written reviews as well as activities and travels I have participated in.
Projects
(↑ top)Mentor at the Summer Geometry Initiative 2024 at MIT, organized by Justin Solomon
Mentor of the project
Experimental Suite for Rendering 3D Chladni Patterns.
12 – 16 August 2024, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA (online)
Organizer of a MathArt exhibit
Organization and realization of an exhibition of mathematical art at the Annual Meeting of the German Mathematical Society 2023. Together with C. Trunk and the MIP.labor.
25 – 28 September 2023, Ilmenau, Germany
Organizer of the Minisymposium “Mathematics and Arts”
Organization and realization of the minisymposium on “Mathematics and Arts” at the Annual Meeting of the German Mathematical Society 2023. Together with M. Damrau.
25 – 28 September 2023, Ilmenau, Germany
Board Member of APNet
Elected as board member of APNet – The Assistant Professor Network of the Netherlands.
15 September 2023, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Organizer of the Minisymposium “Mathematics and Arts”
Organization and realization of the minisymposium on “Mathematics and Arts” at the Annual Meeting of the German Mathematical Society 2022. Together with M. Damrau.
12 – 16 September 2022, Berlin, Germany
Mentor at the Summer Geometry Initiative 2023 at MIT, organized by Justin Solomon
Mentor of the project
Approximating Nearest Neighbors in Hyperbolic Space.
7 – 18 August 2023, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA (online)
Scientific Lead of "Detection and Classification of Historic Watermarks"
Successful application for and execution of a project on the automated detection and classification of historic watermarks in cooperation with the
TUM Chair of Geometry and Visualization and the
German National Library.
Project has been executed at the
TUM Data Innovation Lab.
April – August 2023, TUM, Munich, Germany (online)
Conceptualization and teaching of a two-day workshop at the “Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences
Organization and teaching of the two-day course “Denkt Gott symmetrisch? - Das Gleichgewicht in Mathematik und Kunst”.
14 - 15 October 2022, Alanus Hochschule, Alfter, Germany
Conceptualization and teaching of a course at the “Deutsche Schülerakademie
Organization and teaching of the course “On Bridges, Paths, and Knots - Creating your own illustrations of graph theory” in a summer school for gifted high-school students. Together with H. Lipschütz.
3 - 21 August 2022, Jugendbildungsstätte Marstall, Clemenswerth, Germany
Organizer of the Symposium “Realities of Geometries”
Organization and realization of a symposium with four talks at the Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC) 2022, centered around the question of how reality is lent to mathematical objects by investigating them in an artistic manner.
24 August 2022, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Organizer of the Event “Science Communication – practically”
Organization and realization of a series of seven talks on science communication in the framework German Academic Scholarship Foundation: organized by fellows as well as a practical phase in which participants realized their own, small science communcation projects. Here's an 
example project on Twitter.
2 September - 11 October 2021, Germany (online)
Organizer of the Minisymposium “Mathematics and Arts”
Organization and realization of the minisymposium on “Mathematics and Arts” at the Annual Meeting of the German Mathematical Society 2021. Together with M. Damrau.
27 September - 01 October 2021, Passau, Germany (online)
Organizer of the Minisymposium “Mathematics and Arts”
Organization and realization of the minisymposium on “Mathematics and Arts” at the Annual Meeting of the German Mathematical Society 2020. Together with M. Damrau.
14 - 17 September 2020, Chemnitz, Germany (online)
Organizer of the Workshop “AI and Arts”
Organization and realization of a satellite workshop on “AI and Arts” at the KI2019 conference. Together with M. Träger.
23 September 2019, Kassel University, Kassel, Germany
Teaching a course at the “Deutsche Schülerakademie
Organization and teaching of a course on “Paul Klee and vector fields” in a summer school for gifted high-school students. Together with H. Lipschütz.
24 July - August 11 2019, Klosterschule Roßleben, Roßleben, Germany
Cooperation Project for the art exhibition “Laws of Time. The future calculations by Velimir Khlebnikov”
Display of a poster and programming of an interactive website. Together with H. Lipschütz and U. Reitebuch.
16 - 23 March 2019, Feldfünf, Berlin, Germany
Programming Workshop for kids within the “Meet and Code” program
Organization and realization of a workshop on programming for children. Organized for Mathe im Leben gGmbH
06 October 2018, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Workshop within the “Sommeruni” program of Freie Universität Berlin
Organization and realization of a workshop on the project “Polytopia” for children. Together with A. Hartkopf.
10 August 2018, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Organizer of Scientific Exchange Seminar
Organization and realization of annual interdisciplinary seminar for scientific exchange, run by the CdE. Together with J. Roigk.
8 - 10 December 2017, Haus am Turm, Essen, Germany
Activities and Travels
(↑ top)IPC member for EuroVis 2024 Short Papers
Member of the Program Committee for the EuroVis 2024 Short Papers
IPC member for Bridges 2024
Member of the Program Committee for the Bridges 2024 conference on Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, and Culture
Personal Development Program
A program for Assistant Professors at TU Delft, focusing on leadership, communication, and visibility. 1 November – 17 April 2024, TU Delft, the Netherlands
Jury member for the Academiekus
Member of the Jury for the Academiekus prize, organized by the Algemene Onderwijsbond (AOB).
14 February 2024, online, the Netherlands
IPC member for EuroVis 2023 Short Papers
Member of the Program Committee for the EuroVis 2023 Short Papers
IPC member for Bridges 2023
Member of the Program Committee for the Bridges 2023 conference on Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, and Culture
IPC member for TopoInVis 2022
Member of the Program Committee for the IEEE Workshop on Topological Data Analysis and Visualization 2022
Finished UTQ Supervise
Obtained a certificate of completion for the Universal Teaching Qualification course on how to supervise students.
Finished UTQ Develop
Obtained a certificate of completion for the Universal Teaching Qualification course on how to develop a university course.
Envisions - Visions for a future with AI
Collaboration on a paper and video.
Interview for the kick-off event of the "Delft Young Academy"
Interview on possible goals for the "Delft Young Academy".
Participant in the Online Correspondences on the EU's digital future
Working with artist Tiz Creel on the topic “Data is everywhere”.
June 2021, online
Selection Panel Member
Member of a selection panel of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, interviewing and selecting candidates for scholarships.
25 - 27 June 2021, online
Interview for the Kulturtechniken 4.0 project by the Goethe Institute
Interview on teaching AI to the next generation.
Interview for the German Academic International Network
Interview on research in the US, Japan, and Germany, implications of Covid-19 on my research, and how it affects future career planning.
Google Summer of Code 2019 with Geometry Factory
Implementing a fast Hausdorff distance estimation in
CGAL
. Mentor: S. Loriot.
May - August 2019
Long Night of Science 2019
Organized and realized an exhibit of the workgroup Mathematical Geometry Processing at the Long Night of Science.
15 June 2019, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Exercise in the Mathekalender
Issued an exercise in the digital mathematic advent calender Mathekalender. Together with U. Reitebuch.
Interview for the Podcast Mandelbrot Talks
Interview on results from my PhD research and on my work for the project Mathe im Advent.
Assistant Organizer for BMG Day - Artistic Math?!
Assistant organizer for a one-day combined workshop and lecture event for the general public.
8 November 2018, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Art Exhibition Entry
The entry “Toronto Barbershop Icosahedron” was accepted to the General Art Exhibition of the Bridges Conference 2018.
25 - 29 July 2018, The National Museum of Science and Technology (Tekniska museet), Stockholm, Sweden
Long Night of Science 2018
Organized and realized an exhibit of the workgroup Mathematical Geometry Processing at the Long Night of Science.
09 June 2018, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Webdesigner for “Polytopia” project
Back- and front-end programming of the PHP-based website together with S. Auerbach. Project Lead: A. Hartkopf.
October 2017 - October 2018, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Selection Panel Member
Member of a selection panel of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, interviewing and selecting candidates for scholarships.
2 - 4 February 2018, Stephansstift - Zentrum für Erwachsenenbildung, Hannover, Germany
Exercise in the Mathekalender
Issued an exercise in the digital mathematic advent calender Mathekalender. Together with U. Reitebuch.
Interviewed by Pupils
Interviewed by a group of swiss pupils on publications at the Bridges Conferences.
5 December 2017, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Research Visit at Tel Aviv University
Visiting the group of D. Levin, supported by the Minerva Foundation.
23 October - 17 November 2017, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Assistant Organizer for BMG Day - Picturesque Mathematics?!
Assistant organizer for a one-day combined workshop and lecture event for the general public.
10 November 2016, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Event with Zometool Europe
During 7ECM in Berlin, organized and realized an outreach event at KaDeWe building a large-scale Zometool model.
19 July 2016, Kaufhaus des Westens, Berlin, Germany
Organization and Realization of a guided tour
Organized and gave a tour for pupils through the labs of Workgroup of Mathematical Geometry Processing. Organized together with JuForum.
9 July 2016, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Team Organizer for the International Geometry Summit
Organization of the volunteer team for the International Geometry Summit and the corresponding Summer School.
20 - 24 June 2016, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Long Night of Science 2016
Organized and realized an exhibit of the workgroup Mathematical Geometry Processing at the Long Night of Science.
11 June 2016, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Research Visit at RWTH Aachen University
Visiting the group of D. Bommes, as a main prize awarded at the Jahrestagung der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung 2015.
23 November - 3 December 2015, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Assistant Organizer for BMG Day - Fun Factor Math?!
Assistant organizer for a one-day combined workshop and lecture event for the general public.
12 November 2015, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Long Night of Science 2015
Organized and realized an exhibit of the workgroup Mathematical Geometry Processing at the Long Night of Science.
13 June 2015, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany