I studied physics at the University of Heidelberg. Out of curiosity I visited the lecture about General Relativity, and of course I tried to read and understand "the telephone book".
Eventually I focused on solid state physics, working on femtosecond laser-matter interaction in my PhD years in Berlin, but I still recall the beautiful structure of Einstein's field equations.
I currently live in the beautiful town of Lüneburg in Germany.
My hobbies include various sports such as windsurfing and inline skating in summer and alpine snowboarding and figure skating in winter. I also like computer gaming, preferably strategy games, 4X games and simulation games.
Actually, my computer is way over-the-top for most of these, hence I happily donate all spare cycles to distributed computing with scientific background.
I run the following water-cooled rig:
CPU: Intel i7-980X @ 3.9GHz (water cooled)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA X58A-UD7 rev 2 (water cooled)
Gfx: Sapphire HD7970 (water cooled)
RAM: 12 GB
HD: OCZ-VERTEX4 128MB
PSU: Antec SG-850 (water cooled)
Heat exchanger: MoRa 3
The purpose of water-cooling is not for overclocking but to have a silent machine that I can run 24/7 (which it does most of the year).
Compared to the other 3 fundamental forces we know very little about gravitation. We cannot build "colliders" to probe gravitation experimentally in a more controlled way. My motivation is to support the experimental side of gravitation research by helping to look for gravitational waves.
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MilkyWay@home | 0 | 63.0M |
GPUGRID | 0 | 6.39M |
Asteroids@home | 0 | 1.93M |
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