About me

My name is Marc Weitz and I am software developer and data scientist with a PhD in Computer Science from the university of Tromsø. In my PhD, I did research on the processing of accelerometer data to monitor physical activity levels and other aspects of daily human life such as sleep or sedentary behavior with a main focus on the data from the Tromsø Study. Before that I studied Cognitive Science at the university of Tübingen with focus on language processing, neuronal information processing, mutlimodal integration, statistical modelling and machine learning. I am a big fan of open software and open science so I try to make most of the things I do publicly available. For more information on projects I worked on or on which I am currently working, have a look at my projects page.

During my undergraduate and graduate studies, I worked as a research assistant at the Quantitative Linguistics lab of Harald Baayen where I fell in love with Python and as a teaching assistant for various courses within the Cognitive Science and the Computer Science bachelor programmes at the university of Tübingen.

In my free time, I am a passionate hiker, cycler, climber and runner. In particular, I love doing long-distance and endurance stuff like hiking for a week or longer, run long distances preferably in the mountains and cycle over weeks and months. My, so far, most challenging adventure was a three month bike trip from southern Germany to the north cape and back, but many adventures are still waiting.