I defended my PhD thesis

My previous post is already half a year ago, when I submitted my PhD thesis. I finalized it in April and started with it more than 4 years ago.

Finally, everything is finished and I have this big part out of my head. As I do not post often on social media, I spent a lot of time writing the post below:

Last week I successfully defended my PhD thesis “Comparative Simulation of Energy Market Designs” at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg.

I want to thank my great supervisors, Sebastian Lehnhoff from OFFIS - Institut für Informatik and Volker Sander from FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences, for their constant support and guidance. A big thank‑you also goes to Astrid Nieße and Marco Grawunder for serving on the Doctorate Committee, and to Philipp Staudt for chairing the committee professionally.

Parts of my dissertation are used further on within the ADAPT research project, which makes me very happy. The developed market abstraction is available within the open-source tool ASSUME: https://github.com/assume-framework/assume

I’ve had the privilege of meeting incredible researchers and collaborators over the past four years. Special thanks to Christian Rieke and Dominik Stollenwerk who supported me in the early phase. On various conferences, I met many wonderful people whom I want to thank.

Especially to Nick Harder, Kim K. Miskiw and Christoph Schimeczek who are excellent researchers and with whom I had great collaborations and a fun time.

Thanks for everything!

As I will still stay in academia for a while, I am looking forward to new projects and new opportunities. I like the current dynamics very much. The openness of the research, the different topics and the well-working collaborations makes up for the opportunity cost of the industry. At least for now.

There is still some time until I get the doctoral certificate, but I am more than proud and very relieved that everything is finished now.