I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the computer science department at the University of Münster in Germany. I am part of the Parallel and Distributed Systems group supervised by Professor Sergei Gorlatch. Ever since my master studies, I have been actively contributing to the Lift Project in collaboration with Dr. Michel Steuwer (University of Glasgow) and Dr. Christophe Dubach (University of Edinburgh) and performed multiple successful research visits every year. More recently, I’m working as one of the main developers on Rise, a spiritual successor to Lift, and I’m the leading developer of Elevate a language for specifying optimization strategies. I am generally interested in code generation and compilers for parallel systems with a special focus on stencil computations and program optimization using rewrite rules.