Well, nothing much to tell, really. But let's see what I can come up with...

Born in 1976 in Berlin I lived there for nearly 20 years until I moved to Dresden to study Civil Engineering. In my school time nothing happened that really would be worth telling. I've had lots of quickly changing interests until I got addicted to computers (at some time in 1988, when I first layed my hands on a KC85, one popular personal/office computer in the former GDR at this time). Later in 1991 I bought my first computer: a Commodore PC 8086/87 with incredible 9 MHz. And after I deleted my command.com and got over my first panic ("oh bugger, that stupid thing won't boot anylonger... can I still rescue something?") I started to learn more and more about these bloody time-devouring machines. I even learned how you could make them work for you. And so I fought my way through BASIC, Pascal, Assembler, C, Delphi, Fortran and finally C++ (which is now my favourite programming language).

But that was back then before I moved to Dresden. In 1996 (after a 'relaxing' year in the german army) I became a student enjoying all the exciting things you can do in your study time (that included falling madly in love with several girls which just weren't interested ;-)

Later (in 1999) I went for a year to Nottingham (yeah, right, that's where Robin Hood is from) and tried to be a good Erasmus student (feel free to read my Erasmus report).

After this interesting time I still managed to get my diploma (in 2002). However, I wanted to become a structural engineer all the time but then I had to decide where to write my thesis and the structural analysis guys were just not as good as the guys from the building physics department. So I wrote a building physics program (it's called Cond 2002). Well, and I really liked the working/researching atmosphere at the institute in Dresden but unfortunately I couldn't stay and become a researcher at the lab. A short time later I was lucky and got an offer from the well-known KU Leuven (in Belgium).

In the summer 2004 I moved to Syracuse, New York (in the north-east of the US) to continue my PhD on numerical simulation of coupled heat, moisture and salt transport in porous media (see Research).