Competitions and selections
Blue Ocean — first place for Europe — with OpenPulse. The European award, not the global one. 23,000+ students from 173 countries
source ↗STARTUP TEENS — first in Health & Lifestyle — one of seven category winners, €10,000, Berlin final. Entered via jury wildcard after 21.68% in the category vote
source ↗JUGEND GRÜNDET — top 14 nationally — from 1,461 teams; pitched at the Munich Chamber of Commerce
source ↗Jugend forscht — Bavarian state round — special prize for BeGreifbar. 59 projects, 87 participants. Did not advance to the national final
Certificate not yet published hereJugend forscht — regional round, München-Süd — won the regional round and advanced to the state competition
listing ↗German Physics Olympiad — second selection round — national selection for the international competition; 759 entrants
round report ↗Känguru der Mathematik — first prize — grade 10. A first prize is roughly the top 0.85% of a year group
Own recordKänguru der Mathematik — first prize — grade 9, the year before
Own recordMathematics Olympiad — Bavarian state round — reached the state round; no placement claimed
Own recordDLR Vulcano challenge — designed and built the MAGMA rover for the brief. No result is listed here because I don't have the confirmation in writing
See MAGMABuilding and research
OpenPulse — co-founder, hardware and product. Modular biosensor platform; prototype boards manufactured, app and SDK unfinished
case study →BeGreifbar — VR chemistry and physics laboratory, ≈31,000 lines. Study results were a tendency, not a conclusion
case study →MAGMA — rover with variable-diameter wheels. V1 drives, remote-operated; V2 designed and partly sourced
case study →FRM II research reactor, TUM — two-month internship in Garching: tensile testing of a boron-filled filament for printed neutron shielding
InternshipSundial and correction tool — handmade brass sundial and a web tool computing the offset from clock time
case study →3D models — published designs, ≈10,500 downloads and 2,800 likes across Printables and Thangs
case study →Teaching and ventures
Robotics course lead — weekly, at my school. Wrote PibUi, the control and calibration interface, including the mock mode
case study →MTG forscht. — co-founded a school research programme with Roman Daugavet; school approval, parents' association budget, supervising teacher, first cohort recruited
First meeting 14 Jul 2026Munich Scholar Mentors — co-founder; built the platform, tutor in four subjects
case study →Vintage watch trading — registered business at sixteen; sourcing, valuation, negotiation. Turnover, not profit
€17,000+ turnoverSoftware
SkyLab — interactive principles-of-flight course · deinwettbewerb — matching across ~300 youth competitions · EduVids and EduSlides — AI pipelines for teaching material · Iphigenie e-reader · Stundenplan
5 projectsStufenportal — year-group organisation · Threadmap — local-first graph of tasks and goals · Athena — planning dashboard · a spatial task manager
4 projectsSafeguard — content scoring and parental controls for YouTube · Maestro — multi-model agent orchestrator with planning, routing and cost tracking
2 projectsPublic and civic
Munich Security Conference side event — school delegation at the Prinz-Carl-Palais; asked a question from the floor. Panel included the Inspector of the German Army and the Commanding General, US Army Europe and Africa
school report ↗Talk on societal resilience — given with Lithuania's Consul General in Munich
Own accountBavarian television and radio — on AI in schools
Own accountPolitical simulations and Landtag visits — Amerikahaus Munich; a panel with former members of the US Congress. Rhetoric and public-speaking training since 2025
Own accountEducation
Maria-Theresia-Gymnasium, Munich — gifted track, physics advanced course. Skipped a year; Abitur expected 2027
Own recordEngineering summer programme, Cambridge — two weeks
Own record