Research associate at University of Hanover, Germany. Interested in Software, Hardware and Pinball. Studied Computer Science at University of Hanover. Currently doing his PhD in Computer Science. Working part time as a software developer. Building a head2head (2 player) pinball machine as a private project to learn about manufacturing hardware, game design and real time software. As part of this hobby he also contributes to the Mission Pinball Framework which is an open source project to drive pinball machines.