Overview
* I’m 27 years old
* Living in Karlsruhe (Germany)
* Studying computer science + operations research at university (last year)

Life philosophy
* Perfection is the key
* Objectivism

Current interests
* the media and world politics
* capitalism and philosophy
* health/biology/anthropology/psychology
* programming and computer games
* art, music, literature
* video editing

Education and achievements
* high school (math/economics major, english/biology minor)
* 1 year math/science course at the University of Ulm
* 1st placed in single and team competition at the ‘International Day of Mathematics in Ulm’
* various courses in genetics and optimization at University of Karlsruhe
* main study areas: software project management, software parallelization, algorithm engineering
* 6-month work at university on a small software project
* scientific articles on optimization, cellular automata, learning classifier systems
* community forum moderator at instarcraft.de

Programming
* 5 years web design (html/css/mysql/php/javascript)
* ~12 years programming experience in various languages (mainly C++, Java)
* Projects ranging from simple 2d space shooters, strategy games, game tools (evolution forge)

Favorite books
* The human animal
* The selfish gene, Climbing Mount Improbable (Richard Dawkins)
* The DEUS machine
* Artificial Life
* Ayn Rand (Anthem, The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged and most of her non-fiction books)
* Genetic Programming
* Adventure book series Lone Wolf
* Battle Royale
* Getting Things Done
* The entrepeneurial myth
* 7 habits of highly effective people
* Basic Economics (Thomas Sowell)
* Various programming manuals ( :p )

Favorite Movies / Series
* Firefly, Pleasantville, The Patriot, Braveheart, Master and Commander, The last unicorn, In the Heat of the Night, A beautiful mind, James Bond, Ideal, A sense of life, Justice League, Charlotte’s Web, Cowboy Bebop, DS9, Iron Monkey, A beautiful mind, Monty Python: Life of Brian, JFK, Unbreakable, The Machinist, The Gods must be crazy, Starship Troopers 2, Star Trek DS9, PI, Planet of the Apes, Godzilla (the old ones),

Favorite Computer Games
* Alpha Centauri
* Master of Magic
* Master of Orion 2
* Colonization
* Civilization
* StarCraft: Broodwar
* Bioshock
* Mount&Blade