Research Projects
Since my studies, I am fascinated by simulation and computing algorithms inspired by nature. Be it ant colony optimization for fleet routing, be it genetic algorithms for optimizing high dimensional paramterization problems, with my research company Green-ORCA I can tackle it.
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The two-process model of Daan et. al (1984) was combined with a phase shifting and amplitude altering routine for better entrainment of the circadian processes by light. Genetic algorithms were used to find the appropriate model parameters for the natural distribution of different chronotypes (early birds, owls) that was published by Roenneberg (2007). As a breakthrough, the resulting distribution of one of the 8 free parameters - the circadian period - closely matched both distribution and average of the human circadian period published for experimantal data by Czeisler (1999).
These results were presented at the UKSim 2013 in Cambridge. A full description as publication and presentation are available here.
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I am greatful for the oportunity to give a series of lectures on Scientific Working at the University of Applied Science in Schmalkalden.
The following topics were covered in 6 sessions:
- Choosing and framing the topic
- Task and Time planing
- Search strategies
- Pro and Contra books
- Online: Wikipedia, Google Scholar, Scirus
- Smart search: Bool operators, distance operators, truncation, wildcards and more
- Break down search results
- Literature management systems
- Literature library of the university (Online-Library, Online-Magazines (Fr. Kritikou)
- Reading strategies
- Understand and abstract scientific texts
- Fast reading techniques
- Just write: flow of writing, obstacles
- Plagiarism
- Correct citing
- Creating useful diagrams
- Basic Latex introduction
Lecture notes are available in German on request.