Born and raised in Middle Franconia, Southern Germany, I studied physics at TU Dresden, Germany and the University of Aix-Marseille II, France. I obtained my Masters degree at TU Dresden under the supervision of Walter Strunz, working on the geometry of correlations in bipartite quantum systems.

For my PhD, I moved to Melbourne, working in the group of Kavan Modi at Monash University, focussing on the investigation of memory effects in complex open quantum system dynamics.

Supported by an Erwin Schrödinger fellowship, I moved back to Europe in 2019 and held postdoctoral positions at IQOQI Vienna and the University of Vienna in the groups of Marcus Huber and the Young Independent Research group (YIRG). There, my research interests predominantly revolved around genuinely quantum space-time correlations, quantum causality, and higher order quantum maps.

Subsequently, I left mainland Europe for Ireland, where a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship allowed me to pursue research on the structure and characterization of quantum stochastic processes in Felix Binder’s group at Trinity College Dublin.

Since 2025, I am an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences (IpaQS), Edinburgh, where my research focus lies on exploring the practical space-time limits of quantum applications.

My research interests lie at the intersection of Quantum Information Theory, the field of Open Quantum System Dynamics, and the study of causality in quantum mechanics. I am particularly interested in the role that complex memory effects play in the dynamics of quantum system, and study how to control and exploit them for practical tasks. In addition, my research focuses on the investigation of causal and causally disordered signalling structures in higher order quantum processes, as well as the demarcation line between classical and quantum phenomena.

In my research practice, I predominantly employ the toolbox of theoretical quantum information theory. The main tool I use to model complex quantum processes are higher order quantum operations. To analyse and characterize them, I borrow insights from matrix product operator theory, entanglement theory, quantum tomography and quantum control, while their optimization is predominantly based on semidefinite programming and gradient descent techniques. My work focusses on analytical results and techniques, but borrows heavily from numerical approaches whenever necessary.

Quantum Information , Open Quantum System Dynamics, Quantum Correlations in Space and Time, Quantum Causality