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„All models are wrong, but some are useful“ George Box „We may have no influence on what cards we hold when born, but we have influence on how to play them“
- Developed a new institute-wide LaTeX template system for the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, standardising publication workflows across reports, policy briefs, working papers, economic outlooks, IP Lab publications, and Beamer presentations. - Built a modular LaTeX architecture with reusable core classes, shared assets, publication-specific class files, and branded presentation themes to ensure visual consistency across multiple Kiel Institute publication lines. - Translated institutional design requirements into production-ready LaTeX templates, including custom cover pages, typography, headers/footers, executive summaries, abstracts, author metadata, bibliographies, appendices, closing pages, and multilingual German/English support. - Created fully working example projects for each publication format, enabling researchers and editors to start from validated templates and produce publication-ready PDFs with minimal technical overhead. - Implemented automated GitHub Actions CI pipelines to compile all template examples and documentation in a TeX Live container, validating template integrity on every push and pull request. - Designed release automation for generating distributable ZIP packages for individual publication lines and combined “all publication lines” bundles - Developed Overleaf-ready packaging infrastructure, including automated ZIP generation, cleaned source bundles, correct main-document configuration, and GitHub Pages deployment links for one-click template access by non-technical users. - Set up a publishing pipeline that bridges LaTeX, GitHub Actions, Overleaf, and institutional design assets - Integrated bibliography workflows using biblatex/Biber and latexmk, ensuring robust multi-pass compilation for research publications with references, tables of contents, and structured document metadata. - Automated release-quality checks and artifact generation for multiple template families
Continental Power Desk - Global Markets -Identifying, reviewing, and integrating (new) information and sources/feeds for market or fundamental data, e.g., building web scrapers or data quality monitoring tools -Further developing and automating routines, procedures, and applications for analysis- related information and data flows -Visualizing data and analyses in dashboards -Further developing the fundamental and mathematical market modelling, incl. utilizing machine learning approaches -Conducting commercially relevant quantitative analyses by using advanced analytics -Tackling programming challenges
Chair of Prof. Dr. Jacobs -Automation of publication-relevant processes -Webscraping and NLP analysis -Participation in the research project of the Chair of Finance with a focus on journalists and stock markets -Data generation (creation and preparation) -Literature acquisition (research) -General collaboration on current research projects -Scripting (Python) Code Functions for retrieving big data samples using the Thomson Reuters Refinitiv API
- Administrative activities related to the life of the association - Initialisation of series of lectures and new formats on topics of quantitative finance - Promoting discourse on developments in capital and technology markets Lectures I gave: -Are dividends actually disappearing? Global evidence -The Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm for time series forecasting -The ARIMA model and other time series models -Hedging strategies with derivative financial instruments -sea wave forecasting systems and their application in the financial/energy sector -Python for Excel: Using xlwings to automate Spreadsheets
Working Student for Statista Q, the Data Science branch of Statista -preparation of descriptive statistics and reports -Online research activities within the framework of international projects -Research of company key figures, sales contacts and other relevant data -Processing and cleaning of all kinds of data -Datavalidation and Dataresearch -API Testing and Integration -Software: R, Python