Marcus’ Life
1967
Only son of Wolfgang and Marlene Rickert
1974-1979
Gemeinschaftsgrundschule,
Alte Wipperfürther Straße, Cologne
1979-1987
Herder-Gymnasium, Cologne
with majors in
Mathematics and Physics
1987
3rd Prize at State Level in the Student Competition Jugend Forscht
1990-1993
Software Developer for Profi.S with Focus on Route Planning in Turbo Pascal
1994
Physics Department,
University of Cologne
Master Thesis on Simulation of Traffic Flow with Cellular Automata
1995-1997
Scholarship of Scientific Computing,
University of Cologne
1996
2nd Prize for Master Thesis in the Competition KM 92 sponsored by Iveco
1998
Mathematics Department,
University of Cologne
PhD Thesis on Traffic Simulation on Distributed Memory Computers
1998-1999
PostDoc Assignment in Traffic Research with TRANSIMS at the Los Alamos National Lab
1999-2013
Software Engineer at Capgemini with Focus on Business Intelligence
Since 2013
Consultant at Accso with Focus on Python, Application Architecture, and DevOps