CV

Intern Exoplanet Group (Leiden)

Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)

Exoplanet Atmosphere Characterization: assessing the impact of inhomogeneous datasets on comparative planetology. In this internship I show that assuming space-based instrument comparability for exoplanet atmosphere retrievals biases the retrieval results. Further, my findings indicate the offset between space-based instruments can be as large as between ground- and space-based instruments, even between mature instruments on the HST. These findings have implications for our current understanding of exoplanet atmospheres and the science from instruments such as ARIEL and JWST.

• Supervisor: Dr. Billy Edwards
• Retrieval using TauRex
• HST WFC3, STIS and SPITZER IRAC spectra
• Synthetic ARIEL AIRS spectra
• Robust exoplanet characterization with deep learning

Teaching Assistant

Concurrent Design Lab, Delft University of Technology (CDL, TU Delft)

As TA in the Concurrent Design Lab I supported the day-to-day project activities, designed and gave practical introductions to concurrent and systems engineering to groups of BSc & MSc students and TU Delft research staff.

• Supervisor: Dr. Iklim Akay & Ir. Barry Zandbergen
• Concurrent and systems engineering practicals
• CDP4 & COMET ubuntu server maintenance (concurrent engineering software)
• Courses: LR-MI-232, AE3200, AE4S10, AE4S52-21, AE4876-11
• Student teams: DARE, Stratos IV & V, Project Sparrow, Project Tumbleweed
• Research projects: DEFAINE Project

Systems Engineering Intern

Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA)

As a systems engineer at RFA I was responsible for the performance & evolution analysis, mass budgeting and cost-estimation of the RFA ONE launch vehicle and high-level design of future launch vehicles. I was responsible for the initial idea and design of the debris de-orbiting end-of-life mission of the Orbital Transfer Vehicle. I also worked on the upper stage (stage 2 & kick-stage, now called Redshift) reaction control system, designing the thruster clusters and their feed system.

• Supervisor: Dr. Stefan Brieschenk (RFA COO & EBM)
• LV performance & evolution analysis, mass budgeting and cost-estimation (RFA One & future)
• Identification and analysis of target orbits for active de-orbiting of space debris
• Systems engineering and design of a upper- and kick-stage reaction control system

Engineering Intern

Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin for Materials & Energy (HZB)

• CAD (SOLIDWORKS)
• CFD (COMSOL)

High-resolution Spectroscopy and Polarimetry Intern

Leibniz-Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP)

I helped to test & calibrate the fiber optics and prisms of the Potsdam Echelle Polarimetric and Spectroscopic Instrument (PEPSI) for the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT)

• Monolithic echelle grating and VPH grisms
• Optic fibers

Swimming instructor

When I was living in Germany I volunteered as a swimming instructor for the bronze and silver (basic and intermediate) swimming levels.

German Central Water Rescue & Medical Service, coast segment (north sea & baltic)

I volunteer as a life-guard on the German coast for two weeks during the summer.

MSc

Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Space Engineering

MSc

Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, Netherlands

Astronomy Research

BSc

Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Aerospace Engineering

Graduation award of the German Society of Physics

German Physical Society