I am a PhD researcher in Causality and Machine Learning at the Technical University of Berlin and the University of Potsdam supervised by Jakob Runge. I am also part of the ELLIS Phd Program where I am co-supervised by Sebastian Weichwald.

Research

My primary research interest lies in studying how modern machine learning and causal inference can be brought together in a mutually beneficial way. I am interested in identifiable representation learning methods that exploit principles from causality, how these methods transfer to real-world settings and challenging common perceptions of what causal representation learning entails.

Beyond that, I am generally drawn to pragmatic (what is useful, rather than what is true) machine learning paradigms that clearly define which criteria constitute success and measure their performance accordingly.

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News

• March 2026: Attended the Causal Identification and Discovery workshop at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, UK.
• May 2025: Joined the Copenhagen Causality Lab for a six month research stay where I will be working with Sebastian Weichwald and Luigi Gresele.
• July 2025: Presented a working version of our paper “Structural Causal Bottleneck Models” as an oral at the Causal Abstractions and Representations workshop at UAI 2025.
• July 2025: Presented our paper “Sanity Checking Causal Representation Learning on a Simple Real-World System” as an oral at ICML 2025.
• September 2024: The full version of our paper “Invariance & Causal Representation Learning: Prospects and Limitations” was accepted at TMLR.
• April 2024: Presented our paper “Identifying Linearly-Mixed Causal Representations from Multi-Node Interventions” at CLeaR 2024.
• December 2023: Presented a working version of our paper “Invariance & Causal Representation Learning: Prospects and Limitations” at the Causal Representation Learning workshop at NeurIPS 2023.
• March 2023: Received the Studienstiftung PhD Fellowship, granted by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.
• July 2022: Received the Elsa-Neumann PhD Fellowship, granted by the federal state of Berlin.