Hi, I am an astronomer and instrument scientist working at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany.

My work focuses on observational astronomy and infrared instrumentation. In particular the advancement of high precision astrometry and optical interferometry.

I played a leading role in the design, assembly, integration, testing and commissioning of the 2^nd generation VLTI instrument GRAVITY between 2008 and today.

I received two awards for my work on instrumentation:

• MERAC prize – New Technologies2016 of the European Astronomical Society for the “innovative use of modern technology”.
• Universe PhD award 2013 for the best dissertation, from the Excellence Cluster Universe.

 MERAC prize 2016