Felix Wechsler, born 1995 in Germany
2022 - ongoing: Doctoral candidate at the Friedich Schiller University of Jena under the supervision of Prof. Rainer Heintzmann
2019 - 2021: Master's degree in Photonics at Friedich Schiller University of Jena
Master's thesis is about a kaleidoscopic multiview microscope at the Microscopy department of the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology in Jena and K|Lens GmbH under the joint supervision of Rainer Heintzmann and Ivo Ihrke
2014 - 2019: Bachelor's degree in Physics at Technical University of Munich
Thesis was about theoretical and experimental Schlieren and Shadowgraphy Imaging studies at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in preparation for the next generation AWAKE accelerator
2015 - 2019: Bachelor's degree in Informatics at Technical University of Munich
Thesis topic was Light Field Microscopy at the Computational Imaging and Inverse Problems research group.
2021 - ongoing: Research fellow at the IPHT Jena in the Bio-Nanoimaging group of Prof. Rainer Heintzmann
2021: Independent researcher at Duke University in the lab of Roarke Horstmeyer
2021: Collaboration with Ramona Optics
2020 - 2021: Working student microsystems engineer at K|Lens
2019 - 2020: Working student in the field of machine learning at ICO-LUX
2019 - 2019: Working student Max Planck Institute for Physics
2014 - 2017: Supervisor of the German team at the International Young Physicists' Tournament (IYPT)
My part was to organize the GYPT and train pupils for the IYPT.
2014 - 2016: Working student at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Garching
2022: Course Instructor Deep Recyling - Deep Learning for Trash Detection at Deutsche Schülerakademie
Winter Term 2021/22: Teaching assistant for newly created course "Imaging Processing for Microscopy with Julia"
I was responsible for creating the Julia exercises and correcting homework
2017 - 2019: Teaching assistant (Functional Programming and Verification; Basic Lab Course)
2019: Course Instructor to teach Haskell to grammar school students at Deutsche Junior Akademie
2012 - today: Preparing students for the Physics Olympiad (Orpheus e.V.)
2014 - 2017: Preparing students for the International Young Physicists' Tournament
2022: Applied Photonics Award (2000€) for the best master thesis!
2022: Award for the best master thesis at Leibniz IPHT (500€)
2022: Faculty Award for the best master thesis at University of Jena (1000€)
2021 - 2024: Max Planck School of Photonics: Full Research PhD Position
2021: Deutschlandstipendium with partial funding of the Carl Zeiss Foundation
2020 - 2021: Honours Programme of the University of Jena
Research grant (2.000€) for an optical inverse modeling framework. Awarded by the Friedrich Schiller University to only 0.4% of the students.
2019 - 2020: Thüringen Scholarship
2014, 2016: Gold and silver medals at the IYPT as team captain and team leader
2012 - 2014: Several awards at the national level of the physics and mathematics olympiad
2014: Schülerpreis of the German Physical Society
awarded to only 10 pupils each year
DeconvOptim.jl: for multi dimensional image deconvolution for both CPUs and GPUs
FourierTools.jl: for efficient working with Fourier space
orpheuscc: Django web application to manage seminars and activities of the Orpheus e.V.
Several other toolboxes written in Julia Lang can be found on GitHub
Talk at the Ptychography workshop organized by Lars Loetgering
6th NorMIC Imaging Workshop - Course in Advanced Light Microscopy and Image Processing
Presenting Julia and tools suited for microscopy imaging like DeconvOptim.jl. Link to Material
Presentations at the JuliaCon 2021
2021 - today: Treasurer and Vice-President at the OSA-SPIE Student Chapter Jena
2019 - today: Chairman of the Orpheus e.V.
Responsible for managing the society and organizing seminars about physics with 200 participants
Acquired >10.000€ in funding
2014 - today: Supervisor and Juror at the GYPT
Guiding pupils during preparation. Support as juror in regional and final stages
2014 - 2019: Student Council, member of the department council, speaker of physics and computer science year
Highest student representative in the department of Informatics representing >5000 students