Professional experience
03/2022 Internship at the European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium
Participation in plenary and parliamentary group meetings and meetings with stakeholders, talks with staff of the European Parliament’s scientific service, administrative tasks for the MEP’s office.
10/2017 – 09/2021 PhD candidate at the University of South Brittany (UBS) and at the Research Institute Dupuy De Lôme (IRDL), Lorient, France
Topic: Contribution to the investigation of the compressive strength and delamination of continuous fibre laminated composites in the context of competitive sailing
2019 Founding of a French-German research cooperation, TUK, UBS Lorient
Organisation of meetings between professors from the University of South Brittany and the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (TUK) at both university locations.
Result: International research project on metallic glasses and establishment of an Ersamus+ partnership between the two universities.
10/2016 – 01/2017 Engineering internship at the Research Institute Dupuy De Lôme (IRDL), Lorient, France
Numerical modelling of the torsion of a composite laminate.
09/2016 – 08/2020 German lecturer at the University of South Brittany, Lorient, France
10/2015 – 03/2016 Master student at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil
Topic: Investigation of the wettability of a Nitinol shape memory alloy by eutectic aluminium based alloys for developing selfrepairing metal-matrix-composites (MMC) for aeronautical purposes
09/2013 – 01/2014 Engineering internship at Safran Aircelle (now Safran Nacelles), Le Havre, France
Topic: Reorganisation of the assembly process of the A320 thrust reverser (project management, lean manufacturing, statistical process control)
Result: Achieving a six-figure saving per year and per half thrust reverser.
02/2011 – 06/2012 Research assistant at the Chair of Thermodynamics at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Research and laboratory work: processing and visualisation of experimental data, research in the fields of material data thermodynamics and reaction engineering.
08/2009 – 09/2009 Internship at Auto Hofmann Walldorf GmbH, GER
Education
10/2017 – 09/2021 PHD candidate at the University of South Brittany (UBS), Lorient, France, Dr.-Ing.
09/2016 – 08/2017 Master 2 research in mechanics and civil engineering, UBS, Lorient, France, Master
Topic: Feasibility study to determine the elasticity properties of carbon fibres by instrumented indentation.
(Original title: Étude de faisabilité de la détermination des propriétés d’élasticité de fibres de carbone par indentation instrumentée)
09/2012 – 08/2016 Studies in mechanical engineering at the École Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Metz, Metz, France, Dipl. Ing.
French-German double degree studies
10/2009 – 03/2016 Studies in mechanical and process engineering at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany, Dipl.-Ing.
French-German double degree studies
09/2000 – 06/2009 Baccalaureate at the Ottheinrich-Gymnasium, Wiesloch, Germany
Skills
Languages: German (native language); French (bilingual); English (fluent); Russisch (basics); sign language (basics)
Informatics: Abaqus, Microsoft Office, Open Office, LaTeX, GanttProject, Linux, Python, Solidworks
Interest & more
Sports (running, swimming, handball), sewing, apiculture, travelling and reading
2020 – 2021 Club sport at HBC (Handball Club Bannalec)
2000 – 2009 Club sport at TSG (Turn- und Sportgemeinschaft) Wiesloch handball division
1996 – 2009 Club sport and afterwards trainer function and advanced training at TSG Wiesloch swimming division