About myself:

Here you can find some information about myself. If you are interested in my work for some personal of professional project you can contact me.

I am 27 years old, born in Preetz near Kiel. until 1998 I went to school, the last 9 years to the Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium in Preetz. After that I did my 10-month military service at Stadum near Leck. From 1999 to 2006 I studied mechanical engineering at the technical university Braunschweig and am now living in Freiburg.

studies

In 1999 i started studying mechanical engineering. I specialized on the subjects material sciences, numerical methods and vibrations. I did two student research projects:

Numerische Simulation des Plasmaspritzens von Wärmedämmschichten (numerical simulation of the plasma spraying of thermal barrier coatings) at the Institut für Werkstoffe.
Entwicklung von Signalauswerteroutinen zur Ultraschallprüfung von monolithischen CFK-Strukturen (development of signal processing techniques for non-destructive testing of monolithical CFK-structures with ultrasound) at the Institut für Füge- und Schweisstechnik in collaboration with the DLR Braunschweig.

In early 2005 I did an internship at Contitech Vibration Control in Hannover.

In 2006 i finished my studies with a master thesis on Mesoparticle simulation techniques and in August 2006 i moved to Freiburg where i started working for the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM

computer graphics

My computer graphics interests are somewhere between a hobby and a profession for me. I did my first steps in this area about 10 years ago when i also discovered POV-Ray - the program most of my computer graphics activities have evolved around.

POV-Ray, the Persistence of Vision Raytracer is a program for generating photorealistic views of synthetical sceneries. You can find a gallery of examples in the Hall of Fame. I am member of the Persistence of Vision development team, the group who is developing and maintaining POV-Ray and makes it available for free to everyone. To learn more about raytracing in general and POV-Ray in particular you should have a look at the raytracing introduction.

More about my POV-Ray related programming work can be found in the programming section.

I wrote three articles for the german computer magazine c't:

issue 17/2002, page 68 about POV-Ray 3.5 and its new features.
issue 20/2003 about creating landscape images with POV-Ray using the isosurface object.
In issue 05/2005 a book critic on 3D-Welten by Toni Lama.

I am also using POV-Ray for creating images - you can find some of them in the gallery. I create a lot of landscape images - both imaginary and real world landscapes. From time to time i am also doing images as contract work, for example for book cover illustrations.

As part of my POV-Ray related work i recently did a evaluation of the POV-Ray code for its suitability for simulating Metamaterials. The results of it have been published in Photorealistic images of objects in effective negative-index materials (Optics Express, Vol. 14, No. 5).

programming

I am doing various programming work, both related to studies and computer graphics. I have programming experience in various languages including C/C++, Pascal, Delphi, Unix shell script, IDL and Javascript. More information on my programming activities can be found in the programming section.

other hobbies

bicycles ( )	photography ( )	astronomy