Selected work
Projects
The favourites from the diary: a probe on a tour of seven exoplanets, a chase after plastic across the ocean, ghost nets that drift on while the ship is on its way, and debris in orbit. Each began with a problem I could not leave alone.
PhD project · Vienna
ongoing work …
follow the nets →
New project · in orbit
debris that won't hold still …
see why it is hard →
Master's Thesis · Vienna · 2025
The Ocean Plastic Chase
Collection boats chase drifting plastic hotspots. Targets and ships both ride real ocean currents (Copernicus data). Online greedy heuristics that retarget on the way, for an orienteering problem whose targets will not hold still.
watch the boats give chase →
Bachelor's Thesis · Bielefeld · 2022
The TRAPPIST-1 Tour
One space probe, seven exoplanets, 5040 possible routes: the ESA SpOC challenge, tackled with decomposition, permutation analysis and genetic algorithms.
5040 sequences, one mission →