Biography

I received my B.Eng. degree from the University of Applied Sciences Konstanz (HTWG) in 2020, and subsequently obtained my M.Sc. degree from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in 2022.

My Master's thesis focused on achievable information rates for space-division multiplexed short-reach fiber-optic communication systems that employ direct-detection receivers. I conducted this research while visiting the Optical Networks Group (ONG) at University College London (UCL).

I received the 2023 Best Poster Award at the European School on Information Theory (ESIT), the 2023 MSCE Academic Award for my master's studies, and the 2024 Teaching Assistant Award from the faculty student council of Electrical and Computer Engineering jointly with Stefan Ritterhoff for the lecture Nachrichtentechnik.

Research Interests

Due to the presence of Kerr nonlinearities, a closed-form expression for the input-output relation of the fiber-optic channel cannot be derived, rendering the channel capacity indeterminate. Digital signal processing techniques, such as digital back-propagation, have been proposed as a means of mitigating nonlinear and linear fiber effects.

However, in wavelength switched networks, where receivers are only able to access their specific channel of interest and not interfering channels, only intra-channel effects, such as self-phase modulation, can be mitigated. As a result, cross-phase modulation remains a significant source of distortion in the received signal.

The nonlinear distortions that remain are typically modeled as correlated phase noise and inter-symbol interference within the channel of interest. My research focuses on developing coding schemes and receivers capable of mitigating these distortions.

Teaching

• Mobile Communications (ST 2026)
• Nachrichtentechnik 2 (WT 2025/26)
• Scientific Seminar on Coding and Cryptography, Scientific Seminar on Digital Communications, Scientific Seminar on Optical Communications (ST 2025)
• Nachrichtentechnik (ST 2024)
• Machine Learning for Communications (WT 2023/24, WT 2024/25)
• Digital Signal Processing for Optical Communication Systems (ST 2023)

Completed Theses

• Successive Interference Cancellation for Multimode Fibers. Master's thesis. Co-supervised with Paolo Carniello.
• Turbo Detection and Decoding for Nonlinear Fiber Optic Links. Master's thesis. Co-supervised with Diego Lentner.
• Perturbation-Based Solutions of the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation. Seminar paper.
• Turbo Equalization for Optical Fiber and/or Phase Noise Channels with Memory. Seminar paper.
• Balanced Information Rates for Successive Interference Cancellation. Master's thesis. Co-supervised with Daniel Plabst.
• Constant Composition Distribution Matching. Seminar paper.
• Spiral Constellations for Long-Haul Fiber-Optic Links. Bachelor's thesis. Co-supervised with Thomas Wiegart.
• Neural Network-Based Compensation Techniques for Nonlinear Distortions in Fibre-Optic Links. Seminar paper.