Born in Berlin, Germany in 1982, I completed my diploma thesis in August 2009 at the Department of Mathematics of the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin with the development and implementation of an hp-adaptive extended finite element method with applications in fracture mechanics. After a 1½ year intermission working in an industry project on the application of the extended finite element method to simulate the evolution of complex fracture networks in rock, taking into account Coulomb friction as well as fluid pressure, I have continued my academic career with the research on higher-order generalized finite element methods for my PhD thesis. Working in the research group lead by Prof. Andreas Schröder first at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and later on at the University of Salzburg, I have focused on higher-order finite elements methods in combination with a fictitious domain approach to simulate thermomechanical deformations and corresponding milling errors for NC milling operations without lubrication. In the process, I have also perfected my C/C++ programming skill set, developing a highly performant simulation software from scratch for academic examples as well as real world applications for my PhD thesis. After my PhD thesis, I started working for a company pursuing finite element simulations primarily for the automobile industry using many commercial-grade finite element simulation tools. After an interesting year with an initially steep learning curce, I have decided to shift my focus a bit towards traffic analytics, creating/improving algorithms for the generation of close to real-time live traffic representations and predictions of real world traffic on the world-wide road networks …