Selected work

Projects

The favourites from the diary: a probe on a tour of seven exoplanets, a chase after plastic across the ocean, and ghost nets that drift on while the ship is on its way. Each began with a problem I could not leave alone.

ongoing
PhD project · Vienna
ongoing work …
plan a route yourself →
 ÖGOR Prize
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.
TDOP-MT Greedy + Retargeting Copernicus data Springer paper
turn α: OG vs OGR →
 GOR Prize
Bachelor Thesis · Bielefeld · 2022
The TRAPPIST-1 Tour
One space probe, seven exoplanets, 5040 possible routes: the ESA SpOC challenge, solved with decomposition, permutation analysis and genetic algorithms.
ESA SpOC R-NSGA2 Multi-Objective
5040 sequences, one mission →