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My prime trait is curiosity about almost every aspect of life with an increased interest in science, technology, international affairs, politics, philosophy, literature, films, music and photography. These aspects can be grouped by the three aspects profession (science and technology), personal interests (international affairs, politics, philosophy) and leisure time (literature, films, music and photography).
In addition to the dominating curiosity I regard creativity, diversity, irony and a strong opinion as very important.

Profession

Towards the end of my university education at the Universität Stuttgart as an aerospace engineer, I combined the traditional engineering with information technologies and am now working in the field of virtual product development. At the Department of Computer Integrated Design at the Technische Universität Darmstadt I am currently pursuing a doctoral degree. My recent work focusses on the management of product knowledge during design and manufacturing phases of the product life cycle.

Personal Interests

In order to keep up with what is going on internationally as well as nationally, I spend a considerable amount of time consuming media (dead trees, online, TV, podcasts). As the daily newspaper (Neue Zürcher Zeitung), which I had been reading for years, became to time consuming, I recently switched to a weekly newspaper focussed at international affairs and politics (The Economist) and a monthly publication (Merkur) which puts more emphasis on the rational and philosophical aspects of politics.
My personal political position is somewhere between classical liberalism and libertarianism. I see the individual as the essential focus and consider collectivist concepts as malicious. Collectivism, in my opinion, obfuscates power and responsibility and thus favours those with the means to gain control.

Leisure Time

In literature as well as films I prefer humorous ones with a ironic, sometimes sarcastic twist. Also post-apocalyptic and dystopian setting have a distinct appeal to me. (a sparse list of examples: Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchet, Neil Geiman, Monty Pythons, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, early Peter Jackson, Quentin Tarantino)
I generally enjoy various music genres, but classical music, jazz, island music, southern rock and folk music are worth highlighting. I have a tendency to avoid pop music.

My probably most time consuming hobby is photography which I started towards the end of high-school with an old analogue SLR camera of my dad. Till 2004 I was mostly taking photos with a combination of AGFA prime lenses (28mm, 50mm and 135mm) and a very sturdy and robust Pentax MX (manual controls). As I was scanning most of the resulting slides anyway, I then decided to make the move towards digital photography and bought a simple bridge camera (Sony DSC-H1). This camera prove to be a very good tool but the bad low-light capabilities and the lack of DOF blur kept annoying me. What I was looking for, was a compact, mirrorless system camera with a reasonably large sensor for DOF blur and better high ISO handling. After a long wait, such a system became available with Micro Four Thirds in 2008/2009 and when the Olympus E-PL1 arrived in eraly 2010, I finally switched. Together with the Panasonic Lumix G 20mm F1.7 and the M. Zuiko 45/1,8 lens which replaced the old AGFA lens (50mm/1,4), this makes a perfect combination for agile and creative photography.

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