Experience

Previous roles that shaped my professional expertise

 
 
 
 
 

AI & NLP Specialist

University Medical Center Freiburg

Jul 2025 – Present Germany
Applied NLP, medical information retrieval, and AI infrastructure development.
 
 
 
 
 

Computer Scientist

Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Apr 2021 – Jul 2025 Munich
Research in NLP, IR and scalable AI systems.
 
 
 
 
 

Over-consortial NLP Lead

MIRACUM & DIFUTURE

Jan 2020 – Jun 2025 Germany
National-scale coordination of Clinical NLP across two medical informatics consortia.
 
 
 
 
 

Lecturer

Macromedia University Freiburg

Oct 2016 – Feb 2018 Freiburg
Lectures in programming, graphics and databases.
 
 
 
 
 

Clinical Data & NLP Specialist

University Medical Center Freiburg (CCI & IMBI)

Nov 2015 – Nov 2023 Freiburg
Responsibilities within the ESID/AL-PID registry systems, backend workflows and database development. At IMBI, contributed to medical informatics research and clinical NLP work for MIRACUM, including the release of the GottBERT preprint in 2020 (research fellowship from 2021–2023).
 
 
 
 
 

Software/Web Engineer

Porzellanland Schmitt GmbH

Feb 2012 – Nov 2014 Emmendingen
System modernization, backend workflows and platform engineering.

Projects

Selected work in AI, NLP, and healthcare

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HalleluBERT

A focused Hebrew RoBERTa project delivering the first large Hebrew model with state-of-the-art benchmark performance; pre-trained on a TPUv4-128 pod and evaluated on private hardware.

SindBERT

The first large Turkish RoBERTa-style model, developed after PortBERT with extensive evaluations on private GPUs and the LRZ BayernKI H100 cluster. The study highlights the importance of corpus variance over sheer size.

PortBERT

A Portuguese RoBERTa model evaluated during a research stay on the Azores, highlighting efficiency-focused perspective models.

GeistBERT

A continued-pretraining extension of GottBERT, developed during a period of transition and finalized as a preprint before being presented at GlobalNLP@RANLP 2025.

i2b2RLS

A PostgreSQL Row-Level Security framework for i2b2, including policy generation, automated testing with pgTAP, performance benchmarking, and a Docker-based deployment stack for clinical data warehouses.

MIRACUM-Pipe

Refactoring and dockerization of the MIRACUM NGS analysis pipeline, enabling standardized, reproducible workflows for precision oncology and Molecular Tumor Boards.

AL-PID Registry

A clinically driven registry rebuilt from a legacy Access database with a custom UI, modular plausibility logic, and an export pipeline.

OctoMap Contribution

Efficient octree traversal and ray based operations for 3D robotic mapping, developed as part of my bachelor thesis.

Porzellanland Schmitt GmbH

A family business that shaped my early digital and entrepreneurial skills.

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