Philipp Herz

Doctoral Researcher

Work Experience

Doctoral Researcher at Eclipse Lab (started March 2025)

  • Develop and test new approaches for real-time 3D imaging in the electron microscope
  • Develop approaches for sample-adaptive imaging and diffraction
  • Design, optimize, and execute Computational Electron Microscopy experiments at our state-of-the-art microscopes

Professional at Deloitte GmbH (May 2023 - September 2024)

Auditing the annual report and the participation of investment funds in corporate actions. Improved efficiency by utilizing Python.

  • Refinitiv and Bloomberg API utilization for improved efficency
  • Optical character recognition to convert tables from PDFs into CSV format
  • Writing balance lists and annual reports into internal audit programs via data pipelines

Working student at cellcentric GmbH & Co KG (August 2021 - May 2023):

Cellcentric is a fuel cell stack developer. Testing and Innovation department.

  • Functionality test for data lake streaming and an evaluation pipeline for end-of-line test data in Databricks
  • Created dashboards with Dash for in-situ fuel cell test stations
  • Developed control charts with Power BI for fuel cell stack components
  • Preparation of performance and health clusters of process and product variables using e.g. UMAP and K-means clustering
  • CI/CD, documentation and project management in Microsoft Azure DevOps

Education

Master of Science in Physics, Heidelberg University, 2023

The lectures that I attended: Quantum Field Theory, Theoretical Astrophysics, Astronomical Techniques, Cosmology, Stellar Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation, Fundamentals of Machine Learning.

Bachelor of Science in Physics, Heidelberg University, 2020

Some of the lectures that I attended: General Relativity, Theoretical Quantum Statistics, Introduction to Computational Physics, Introduction to Astronomy and Astrophysics, Theoretical Astrophysics, Philosophy of Science.

Languages

  • German (native)
  • English (fluent)

Publications

Philipp Herz, Matthias Samland, Coryn A.L. Bailer-Jones (Dec. 2023) “Distinguishing exoplanet companions from field stars in direct imaging using Gaia astrometry” In: Astronomy & Astrophysics, DOI.

Teaching

Tutoring experience on high school mathematics and physics.