Projects

Research projects, technical implementations and publications

Research Projects

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Electricity Trading

Bachelor Thesis • Grade: 1.2 (92%)

Developed a comprehensive reinforcement learning environment for the limit orderbook intraday electricity market. This work involved creating a scientific Python package with optimized runtime performance and MongoDB integration.

Reinforcement Learning Python Energy Systems MongoDB HPC
Winner of Karl-Heinz Lust Innovation Award 2024 (Digital Economy / Industry 4.0 / AI)
Download Thesis Exposé

Technical Projects

Personal Portfolio Website

Personal Project • 2025

Designed and developed a modern portfolio website using Astro, migrated from Hugo. Features a unified visual design system, component-based architecture, and responsive design with scroll-triggered animations.
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Repository

Astro TypeScript Tailwind CSS Responsive Design

LMM Human-AI Collaboration Scaffold,
markdown-based

Personal Project • 2025

Open source scaffold for human-AI collaboration (specifically LLMs).
Part project management and documentation template for collaborative knowledge work, part user guide for best practices in human-AI interaction as well as self directed experimentation and learning
Repository

LLMs Agentic Memory Markdown based notations Meta Cognition and Cooperation

Ukraine Support Tracker Shiny Implementation

Personal Project • 2024

Leveraged Shiny for Python to create an interactive web application that tracks and visualizes the data from the Ukraine Support Tracker of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
Including no-code ETL (Excel to duckdb) pipeline, interactive visualizations, and deployment on shinyapps.io.
Repository , Hosting

duckdb PyShiny Dashboards ETL

Scientific Python Package Development

Fraunhofer IEE • 2022-2024

Contributed to the development of a scientific Python package for deep reinforcement learning in electricity trading, including formal modeling, algorithm and ETL pipeline design, MongoDB deployment, and HPC cluster orchestration using Ray.

Python Package Development ETL Pipelines Performance Optimization Ray Framework Formal Modeling

Review of "Time and the Generations" by Partha Dasgupta

Private project on Substack • 2024, still running

Conducting an in-depth review and analysis of Partha Dasgupta's lecture "Time & Generation", focusing on its implications for sustainable development and intergenerational equity.
I think the review provides a good window into my own thinking through sharing how I approached the book over time.
Read on Substack

Sustainability Economics Mathematical modeling Political Philosophy Ethics