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This is my personal homepage. Without explicit references, all interpretations and conclusions on this website are grown on my responsibility. Nevertheless, I would be pleased if a contribution appeals to you and even leads to an exchange of ideas. Therein I recognize the added value of the website.

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• Born in one of the steepest valleys of the Alps, at a time when the climate change wasn’t a hot topic.
• At the tender age of 5, I wanted to become a priest, believing that priests only work on Sundays. My misconception did not survive long time.
• As a result, I decided to focus on a different perspective for the future, namely to study the living world, which I actually did.
• I spent seven years in a humanistic high school, buffing Latin and Greek, before I could start studying zoology and botany, evolutionary biology and ecology.
• The quintessence from my biology studies: the language of nature is called mathematics.
• In my doctoral thesis I took up this insight and dealt with the non-linear dynamics of difference equations, which produce beautiful patterns from nature.
• Interdisciplinary work has always fascinated me. Everything on this earth is connected. Finding out how and why remains an exciting challenge.
• In my daily work at the federal government, I deal with interesting questions from statistics, mathematics, biology, computer and data science.
• In my leisure time I’m engaged in photography, beekeeping, fly fishing and folding kayaks. These activities provide me with inspiring observations of nature.
• Do you know how bee swarms make intelligent decisions? – A hot topic in the age of machine learning and artificial intelligence.