Hi, I’m Tim!
I’m currently a Postdoc at the computational imaging group at DESY.
News
You can now sign up for our one-day workshop on the mathematics of transformers which takes place on 26th of September 2025 at DESY in Hamburg.
Recent Posts
Dr.-Klaus-Körper Prize
I am very happy to share that I was awarded the Dr.-Klaus-Körper Prize for my PhD thesis today. The prize is awarded by the GAMM at the annual meeting in Poznań.
MirrorCBO: A consensus-based optimization method in the spirit of mirror descent
Together with Leon Bungert, Franca Hoffmann and Doh Yeon Kim we poste a new preprint on MirrorCBO: A consensus-based optimization method in the spirit of mirror descent.
Analysis of mean-field models arising from self-attention dynamics in transformer architectures with layer normalization
Together with Martin Burger, Samira Kabri, Yury Korolev and Lukas Weigand we posted a new preprint called Analysis of mean-field models arising from self-attention dynamics in transformer architectures with layer normalization.
COMFORT
Our project COMFORT: Compression Methods for Robustness and Transferability is being funded by the BMBF!
CMX Lunch Seminar
I’m very excited to give a talk in the CMX Lunch seminar at Caltech today. I will present my work on the mathematics of adversarial robustness, you can find the abstract here.
CBXPy: A python package for consensus-based optimization
I’m very happy to announce that our paper on the CBXPy package has been published in the journal of open source software and can be found here.
Recent Publications
Recent Presentations
Projects
LaTeX Projects
During my time at university, LaTeX was constantly following me around and helping me out. I tried to make everything easier by producing some templates that can be reused by me and others for various projects.
Research
Here’s an overview of some of my research projects and interests.
Teaching
Here is an overview over teaching material that I published online.