Curriculum Vitae

Education

• M.Sc. in Cognitive Science, University of Tübingen, 2020
• Erasmus in Theoretical Linguistics, University of Tromsø, 2018
• B.Sc. in Cognitive Science, University of Tübingen, 2017

Work experience

• since 2020: PhD Candidate (Full-time)
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Tromsø
  • Developing next generation accelerometry methods using machine learning
  • Supervisor: Professor Dr. Alexander Horsch
• 2016 - 2019: Research Assistant / Software Developer (Part-time)
  • Department of Linguistics, University of Tübingen
  • Duties included: Developing and maintenance of pyndl, a python implementation of the naive discriminative learning algorithm
  • Supervisor: Professor Dr. Harald Baayen
• 2014 - 2018: Teaching Assistant in Computer Science and Cognitive Science (Part-time)
  • Department of Computer Science and Psychology, University of Tübingen
  • Duties included: Mentoring students in several lectures
  • Lectures and Supervisors:
    • Computer Science 1, held by Professor Dr. Wolfgang Küchlin
    • Computer Science 2, held by Professor Dr. Torsten Grust
    • Experimental Cognitive Science, held by Professor Dr. Bettina Rolke and colleagues
    • Computer Science 1, held by Professor Dr. Klaus Ostermann
    • Mathematical Statistics, held by Professor Dr. Rolf Ulrich
    • Computational Statistics, held by Martin Loosert, Msc

Skills

• Programming (Python, R, C++)
• Linux
• Languages (German, English, Norwegian)

Theses

Weitz, M. (2020) Audiovisual processing in a spatial detection task (Master’s Thesis).
Weitz, M. (2017) Self-organisation in a model of auditory speech processing (Bachelor’s Thesis).

Software

Sering, K., Weitz, M., Künstle, D. E., & Schneider, L. (2018). Pyndl: Naive discriminative learning in python. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.597964