Project Catalog

Personal

Things I build on my own time — RC aircraft and machines in the workshop, software tools at the desk.

Coding-Projects

Personal · Software2025

Visual Sky Radar

Distributed multi-camera system for real-time aerial tracking

C++PythonOpenCVComputer Vision

Coding-Projects

Personal2025

2D CFD Framework for Interactive Flow Simulation

A from-scratch 2D flow solver with a live, interactive viewer: a vectorized D2Q9 Lattice-Boltzmann core in pure Python/numpy, validated against analytic and benchmark solutions, fast enough to draw obstacles with the mouse and watch a Kármán vortex street form in real time.

PythonCFDLattice-BoltzmannNS-Equations

Coding-Projects

Personal2024

Custom 2D Airfoil Design Code

An inverse 2D airfoil design tool: prescribe the velocity distribution and get the geometry plus its full polar — exact potential-flow core, integral boundary-layer analysis with transition prediction, and an interactive GUI. Prototyped in Python, final version in C++.

C++PythonInverse DesignAerodynamics

Coding-Projects

Personal2022/23

Investment Portfolio Management & Financial Analytics Platform

A local-first Python platform that turns raw broker statement exports into a queryable portfolio database — with interactive charts, benchmark comparison against MSCI World, and performance, risk and allocation analytics.

PythonSQLiteFinancial AnalyticsData Visualization

RC-Projects

Personal2021

Y4 Coaxial Multirotor Configuration

A 3D-printed Y4 multirotor: tricopter geometry with a coaxial rear motor pair instead of a yaw servo. Custom motor mixer, thrust-stand-derived yaw linearisation, and a deliberate motor-out flight test — Ardupilot-based flight control throughout.

ArdupilotY4 ConfigFlight DynamicsCAD

RC-Projects

Personal2021

Tilt-Rotor VTOL Transition Platform

Experimental tilt-rotor aircraft blending multirotor vertical takeoff with fixed-wing forward flight efficiency. Motorized servo-driven rotor tilt mechanism with Ardupilot transition logic.

VTOLTilting RotorsTransition FlightArdupilot

RC-Projects

Personal2020

Foam & Fiberglass Fixed-Wing Platform

Fixed-wing aircraft constructed using conventional foam core and hand-laid fiberglass technique. Balance between light weight, durability, and ease of repair.

CompositeFiberglassFoam CoreHand-Laid Construction

RC-Projects

Personal2019

3D-Printed Aircraft: From Spitfire to Bf 109

Two fully 3D-printed RC warbirds: a thin-walled Spitfire that proved too heavy and crashed after twenty wobbly metres, and a Messerschmitt Bf 109 redesigned around an internal spine structure — light enough to actually fly.

3D PrintingAirframe DesignLightweight StructuresFusion 360

RC-Projects

Personal2018

DIY Autonomous Quadrotor

First complete autonomous multirotor from frame assembly to flight testing. Custom built frame with Ardupilot flight controller, calibrated compass and IMU, and autonomous mission capabilities.

ArdupilotMultirotorElectronicsFlight Control

Hardware-Projects

Personal2018

Smart Mirror & Business Concept for "Jugend Gründet"

Built a smart-mirror device and pitched a full business concept around it in a national competition.

EntrepreneurshipProject ManagementPublic Speaking

Hardware-Projects

Personal2016

Line-Following & Maze-Solving Cars: Analog vs. Arduino

Built two competing robotic cars — one analog-circuit-based, one Arduino-based — to solve the same maze.

Arduino (C++)RoboticsProblem Solving

Academic

Thesis work, university projects, and coursework from the University of Stuttgart and EPFL.

Masters

Academic · Master Thesis2026

Enhancing Spacecraft Thermal Design through Automated Data Correlation

Automated Bayesian correlation of spacecraft thermal models — Airbus Defence and Space

PythonBayesian InferenceMachine LearningThermal

Masters

Academic Project · University of Stuttgart2025

Optimization of Hybrid Algorithms to Minimize the Loss Function in PINNs

A three-phase Adam → CMA-ES → L-BFGS optimizer, tuned by Optuna, that rescues physics-informed networks from ravines gradient descent alone can't escape

PythonPyTorchOptunaCMA-ES

Masters

Academic2025

Designing Lunar Landing and Ascent Stage — Space Station Design Workshop 2025

Propulsion & transportation lead on Team Gold's ALFHEIM lunar-base concept: the launch/transfer architecture, launcher and propellant trade studies, and the custom-designed crew and cargo landing/ascent stages for the south pole.

PropulsionLander DesignTrade StudiesSystems Engineering

Masters

Academic2024

Modernizing the Horten H3 Airfoil

Full inverse redesign of the 1938 Horten H3 flying-wing airfoil: same pitching moment for unchanged trim and stability, ~10% less drag in the laminar bucket, a soft stall instead of a hard one — validated with CFD and converted into a glide-polar improvement.

Inverse DesignEppler MethodAirfoil DesignCFD

Masters

Academic2024

Structural Analysis of a Bridge Under Various Load Cases

Full FEM journey on a real steel footbridge: hybrid TCL-scripted meshing in ICEM, mesh convergence, prestressed modal analysis, pedestrian-induced dynamics in Abaqus — validated by jumping on the actual bridge with an accelerometer.

FEA (Abaqus)ANSYS ICEMDynamic AnalysisModal Analysis

Masters

Academic2024

Comparison of Turbulence Models in Sub- and Transonic Flow

Six RANS turbulence models — from Spalart-Allmaras to a full Reynolds-stress model — benchmarked on the RAE 2822 airfoil in DLR TAU against wind-tunnel data: mesh convergence via Richardson extrapolation, shock positions, computing cost, and polars to stall including shock buffet.

CFD (TAU)PointwiseTurbulence ModellingTransonic Flow

Bachelors

Academic · Bachelor Thesis2022

Supersonic Inlet Design Tool

Analytical shock-system design for supersonic diffuser inlets, validated against CFD — Diehl Defence

PythonSupersonic AerodynamicsCFD (Ansys)Compressible Flow

Bachelors

Academic - Project Work2021

Generic Solid-Motor Burn Simulator

An internal-ballistics tool that turns grain geometry into a thrust curve — Diehl Defence

PythonInternal BallisticsSolid Rocket MotorsCAD

Bachelors

Academic2020

Functional Verification Device for an Electronic Subsystem

Project work at Diehl Defence: a complete Arduino-based test box that automates 34 resistance checks on an electronic subsystem — concept trade studies, custom four-layer PCB with a 32-relay switching matrix and constant-current measurement, enclosure, firmware state machine and a built-in calibration path.

ElectronicsPCB DesignPrototypingHardware Testing

Student Association

Student engineering teams I've worked on — rockets and satellites, built alongside other students.

Student Association2025

EPFL Spacecraft Team

Structures pole — vibration testing & test stand design for the CHESS satellite

Vibration TestingMass ModelStructures

Student Association2023 – 2025

HyEnD — Hybrid Engine Development

Propulsion & structures — solid propellant hybrid rocket engine

PropulsionCompositesRocket Engines