About

I grew up in Kiel, the capital of Schleswig-Holstein. You can check what is going on in Kiel on this page. Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost state of Germany lying between the Baltic and the North Sea. I went to school and university in Kiel. I finished school in 1986 and started at university a year later after my national service. At university I studied Physics. In October 1993 I graduated as Diplom-Physiker in Theoretical Physics. I studied at the Institute for Theoretical Physics and my supervisor was Prof. F. Wagner.

In April 1993 I went to Durham for a PhD. I’d been here before to do an MSc. My supervisor was Ed Corrigan. My research was in affine Toda field theory. Together with Alexander Iskandar and William McGhee I published a paper on breathers. Together with Darren Wilkinson I started the webserver of the Maths department in Durham, at a time when “making a list of all webservers” still seemed to be a sensible idea. Later on I maintained the informal web pages for the Maths department and those of the official pages of the CPT pages. I finished my PhD in May 1996.

From August 1996 to June 2000 I worked for Metron Technology Ltd. in Taunton as a software engineer. Metron Technology specialises in performance and capacity planning of computer systems. My main interest was the performance of databases. Also, I was one of the network administrators looking after the internal network. I have given a talk at UKCMG 99 in York and a talk and poster at UKPEW 99 in Bristol.

From July 2000 to the very end of 2012 I worked at the Department of Computing at Imperial College as a Research Associate for Peter Harrison and Tony Field on the QUAINT project. After that I worked on various other projects in AESOP group.

From January 2013 to August 2013 I worked for Passivsystems Ltd. in Newbury. After a short contract working for Simulamen I have been working for Exony Ltd. (bought by eGain) from December 2013 to April 2015. After a short spell of a few months in Kiel I am now back in the UK working for Yell.

In the Web 2.0 you find me on Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, LinkedIn, Mastodon and Stayfriends. I have also been increasing the size of the www with my contributions to Ashok‘s now sadly defunct gallery, most of the pictures are now slowly appearing on Google Photos.

Short Bio

Senior Data Scientist, Yell, Reading: October 2015 – now
Software Developer, Bartels-Langness, Kiel: June 2015 – August 2015
Data Scientist, Exony Ltd./eGain Communications Ltd., Newbury: December 2013 – April 2015
Data Science Consultant, Simulamen, Taunton: September 2013 – November 2013
Algorithm Developer, PassivSystems Ltd., Newbury: January 2013 – August 2013
Research Associate at Imperial College London: July 2000 – December 2012
Software Engineer at Metron Technology Ltd., Taunton: August 1996 – June 2000
PhD at Durham University: April 1993 – May 1996
MSc in Particle Theory: October 1990 – October 1991
Diplom-Physiker at Kiel: October 1987 – April 1993
National Service: July 1986 – September 1987
Kieler Gelehrtenschule: 1977 – 1986