Dr. Mathias Hentrich

Keywords: cloud concepts, AWS global infrastructure, core AWS services, shared responsibility model, security and compliance, billing and pricing, cost optimization.
To prepare, I completed the "AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials" course and then passed the certification exam. The certificate attests a solid foundational understanding of the AWS Cloud: cloud concepts, core services, security and compliance under the shared responsibility model, and billing and pricing models.

Keywords: leading with analytics, exploratory analytics, data visualization, good vs. bad analytics, causal analytics, predictive analytics, linking analytics with actions, machine learning, artificial intelligence.
This virtual executive program was designed by faculty of the Kellogg School of Management and the McCormick School of Engineering and comprised eight modules with faculty videos, live faculty calls and partner exercises. I learned to distinguish good from bad analytics, to apply causal and predictive analytics, and to translate analytical insights into strategic decisions and actions, up to machine learning and AI.

Keywords: artificial intelligence, machine learning, smart advisors, blockchain, robotic process automation (RPA), intelligent process automation (IPA), platform economy, digital platforms, internet of things, cloud.
In Accenture Strategy's learning program "Strategy TechXpert" I worked intensively through the courses on artificial intelligence and machine learning, blockchain, and robotic and intelligent process automation (RPA, IPA), complemented by learning boards on digital platforms, the Internet of Things and cloud. I applied this knowledge directly in a strategy project in which we evaluated disruptive technologies such as AI, platforms and blockchain in workshops with senior executives and experts and derived recommended actions.

Instructors: Prof. Kevin Kaiser (Dynamics in the C-Suite), Prof. Karan Girotra (elective Business Model Innovation)
Keywords: value creation, role of finance and capital markets, valuation, objective forecasting, opportunity cost of capital, C-suite stakeholder mapping, political mindfulness, business model innovation, rapid low-cost experiments.
Second of two certificates of the Accenture-INSEAD Online Strategy Certificate Programme (Module 3 plus elective). I learned to anchor strategy recommendations firmly in value creation: the role of finance and capital markets, valuation and objective forecasting, and the opportunity cost of capital, as well as navigating interactions in the C-suite through stakeholder mapping and political mindfulness. In the Business Model Innovation elective I learned tools to identify business model opportunities and to test innovation ideas through quick and cheap experiments.

Keywords: design thinking, co-creation workshops, personas, customer journey, ideation.
I qualified as a design thinking coach through the 24-hour Design Thinking Academy (Europe/APAC), preceded by an online foundation course. Since then I have applied the method in co-creation workshops with clients, for example for personas, customer journeys and ideation.

Instructor: Prof. Peter Zemsky
Keywords: business strategy, competitive advantage, value-activities-resources (VAR) framework, industry and market analysis, resource stretch and leverage, financial acumen, income statement, opex, translating strategy into profits, executive communication, audience analysis.
First of two certificates of the Accenture-INSEAD Online Strategy Certificate Programme, comprising Module 1 "Business Strategy and Financial Acumen" and Module 2 "Business Strategy and Communication". I learned to analyze competitive advantage systematically, to assess how industry and market shape a company's strategy, and to translate strategy into profits through efficient use of resources. The second module deepened audience-oriented communication of recommendations to CEO and CFO, including peer reviews and recorded presentations.

Final grade: 93 % (37 of 40 points), ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management (ITIL 2011)
Keywords: service management as a practice, ITIL service lifecycle, service strategy, service design, service transition, service operation, continual service improvement, processes, functions, roles.
In a three-day classroom training (24 hours) followed by the exam, I learned the IT service management lifecycle according to ITIL, with a focus on aligning IT with the business, controlling costs and improving service quality. Using a case study, I applied the core processes, functions and roles to everyday IT situations.

Final grade: 100 % with distinction
Instructors: Prof. Joe Warren, Prof. Scott Rixner, Dr. John Greiner, Dr. Stephen Wong - Department of Computer Science
Keywords: local/global variables, methods/functions/classes, logic and comparisons, conditionals, event-driven programming, interactive drawing, lists, dictionaries, images, object-oriented programming.
This course taught the basics of interactive programming by working through multiple "mini-projects" in Python together with video lectures and online exams. Python is an easy-to learn, high-level computer language that is used in many applications worldwide. I used a browser-based programming environment to develop interactive applications involving graphical content responding to buttons, a keyboard and a mouse. To strengthen the understanding of the material I built a collection of interactive games such as Pong, Blackjack and Asteroids.

Final grade: 98.9 % with distinction
Instructor: Prof. Dr. Tobias Kretschmer - Institute for Strategy, Technology and Organization
Keywords: simultaneous/sequential/repeated games, commitment, complements, cooperation, choice of market, entry strategies/deterrence, R&D, incentives, innovation under competition, sleeping patterns, Bertrand paradox, product differentiation, pricing and product decisions.
This six-week course introduced game theory as a powerful tool for thinking about business strategy in a systematic way. I learned to identify inter-dependencies among companies and anticipate the behavior of competitors in their business decisions. Using the basic tools of game theory, I analyzed in real-life settings how firms choose strategies to attain competitive advantage.

Final grade: 96.1 % with distinction
Instructors: Prof. V. Pande, Dr. B. Srinivasan - Departments of: Statistics, Computer Science, Chemistry, Structural Biology
Keywords: introduction to possible Startups and the todays Silicon Valley, Linux overview and key features, setting up development environments (bash, emacs, server-side JavaScript, node.js), market research, wireframing/copywriting/design, web application (HTML5/CSS3/JS), deployment (DNS, Github, Heroku, Amazon Web Services, security, SSH/SCP), development (dev/staging/production with git, debugging, responsive design, social/local/mobile), marketing and sales, virality and growth, crowdfunding with bitcoins, regulation/disruption/future.
This course explored engineering, design and marketing in the context of mobile web development.

Final grade: 97.6 % with distinction
Instructor: Dr. Lorenzo Cavallaro (Assistant Professor) - Information Security Group (ISG)
Keywords: botnets, rootkits, static and dynamic analysis, polymorphism, code obfuscation, mobile malware, cybercriminal underground economy (pay-per-install, exploit-as-a-Service, memory errors), reverse engineering challenge (IDA Pro, binary, C source).
This short graduate-level course introduced students to traditional and mobile malicious software, the security threats it represents, state-of-the-art analysis and detection techniques, and the underground ecosystem that drives this profitable but illegal business.

Three independent short seminars as voluntary training:
12/2005: Job application training I–III (CV, cover letter, job interview, self-presentation), trainer: Michael Ross, communication consulting
07/2008: "The professional talk – rhetoric in scientific presentations", Professional Development Office (IFB), Ruhr-University Bochum
11/2009: Rhetoric seminar, trainer: Tobias Brouwer, MLP

Instructor: Dr. Sylvia C. Löhken
Scientific Presentation for Natural Sciences, Engineering and Life Sciences. The 3-day-workshop enhances presentation skills that help to communicate scientific results to a scientific audience in a style that is both professional and authentic for conferences.

Instructor: Dr. Anja Frohnen
Topics: verbal business card, skillful small talk, strategic statement structure, maintaining contacts.
Participants developed context-specific self-presentations and small talk strategies with video feedback for meetings and conferences, aimed at helping them get easily into focused contact with other researchers during coffee breaks, evening events and conference dinners. Moreover, the participants learned to use the subsequent question and answer session after lectures for scientific exchange and self-presentation.

Instructors: Dr. Heike Loschelder, Dipl.-Biol. Andrea Kolpack
Topics: background and principles of advanced cloning input vectors (entry clones), application vectors (destination clones), special utilization (e.g. gene expression, complementation, affinity tagging, RNAi), discussion and project planning.

Instructor: Ulya Waldraff
The complexity and volume of a dissertation usually exceeds all previous projects a PhD student has coped with so far. This workshop offered helpful techniques for project and time management meant to be used specifically by doctoral students.

Instructor: Dipl.-Schauspielerin Kriszti Kiss
Topics: posture, breathing and change of tension as a basis for the speaker; functional use of speech-organs (lips, tongue, soft palate); physiological processes in the larynx: vocal use and resonance; to listen and control the tone modulation; phonetic self-control in various communication situations.
In this three-day seminar participants learned about their overall acoustic impression how to moderate their vocal expression through components such as breathing techniques and intentionality. The course taught methods meant to prevent phonasthenia and to skillfully increase/dose acoustic presence. Finally, the course addressed the combined effect of body language and communicative attention (active and passive) and discussed their design possibilities.

Instructors: Dr. Anja Frohnen, Matthias Brandl
In this course, typical leadership patterns in hierarchical research teams were problematized, while communicative solution-oriented strategies to deal constructively with them were given. Established tools of leadership and management models were discussed and the differences in the requirements as a supervisor/employer/project manager reflected to integrate the knowledge in one's own conception of management. I learned the basics of how to typify team members, how to put together the best team combination and how employees' different potentials can complement one another.

The Central Isotope Laboratory offers all technical and scientific requirements for the handling of unsealed radioactive substances, such as those required for research at the Ruhr-University Bochum as well as in non-university scientific/technical areas. Because of my project work with ionizing radiation, I had to pass a radiation protection training, a preventive medical examination and isotope laboratory training to work with radioactive substances inside the Central Isotope Laboratory.

This support program alongside the studies consisted of individually combinable, theoretical (lecture series, seminars) and practical (workshops, internship) elements to promote economic thinking served to independently plan and perform projects as well as learn the basic principles of management. I thoroughly enjoyed the subject, which led me to acquire this certificate in three semesters instead of the scheduled four.

Instructor: PD Dr. Hilmar F. Henselek
The semester lecture series with final examination introduced students of non-economic studies to the subject of business administration. The main topics included optimal decisions for income generation, individual and collective behavior, risk management, Robinson Crusoe economy, economic coexistence and division of labor as well as the analysis of market mechanisms (control via exchange conditions) and the coordination of actions in companies (control via hierarchical relationships). And finally, to explore the question of which type of market-based or entrepreneurial behavior is most appropriate under a given set of conditions.

Instructors: Prof. Dr. F. Kerka, Dr. F. Schwarzbach, Dipl. Soz.-Wiss. P. Wehling, Dipl.-Chem. Dipl.-Arb.-Wiss. M. Kottmann
Topics: methods and tools of project management, control and development of project teams, change management and innovation.
The content was taught through lectures, case studies, practical examples, discussion, sharing experiences, training documents and checklists.

Instructor: RA Sabine Hetterscheid
Topics: overview of the legal system, civil and commercial law (civil code, contract law, law of obligations, product law, property law), individual labor law with areas of social insurance law (rights and obligations of contracting parties, written warnings, terminations, employment protection).
In this course legal relationships of everyday life as well as areas of labor and commercial law were explained.

Instructor: Prof. Dr. Wim Kösters
The semester lecture series with final examination gave the students of non-economic studies an introduction to the theoretical foundations and application spectrum of microeconomics (market economy, market efficiency, market failure, government intervention) and macroeconomics (global economy, growth, inflation and employment).

Instructors: Dr. Freya Schwarzbach, Dipl.-Theol. Dipl.-Arb.-Wiss. Gregor Fasel, Dipl.-Chem. Dipl.-Arb.-Wiss. Marcus Kottmann
Topics: introduction to human resource management, staff management and motivation, incentive management, human resource development and education controlling. The topics were then summarized in a cross-thematic case study.

Instructor: Maximiliane Bönnighausen
Topics: theoretical foundations of media-based learning (learning theories and basics of media didactics), development trends, cost-benefit analysis of new media, media learning course developments (technology, design, management), introduction to appropriate software.
First, this course gave an overview of the functions and didactic designs of teaching and learning with new media. Based on the theory and with the help of authoring software, the course covered how to design and implement a concrete teaching and learning unit intended to deepen the function, design options and basic skills for media-didactic counseling and further education activities.

Instructor: Stephan Hochhaus
In comparison to known word processing programs such as MS Word, the typesetting system known as LaTeX is more reliable and stable, making it an already established publishing alternative in the natural sciences. After an introduction to the basics of LaTeX, the course deepened my acquired knowledge with practical exercises on the basis of the individual faculty requirements (design, page layout, citations, cross-references, etc.) and thematic LaTeX references. Finally, the course tested our knowledge by requiring us to write a thesis completely in LaTeX. I wrote my bachelor’s thesis in LaTeX.

Instructors: Stephan Hochhaus, Daniel Florian
Topics: AIDA, input channels, applied rhetoric (linguistic and non-linguistic), models of communication (Watzlawick, Schulz von Thun), questioning techniques, understanding models, feedback, visualization techniques, dissonance theory, target group analysis, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, levels of language, theme structure, argument structure, Johari window, media skills (flipchart, overhead projector, media choice, moderation and training materials, chart types/selection/creation), creating a presentation with video analysis.
This course taught a variety of presentation techniques and media skills as well as an introduction to the use of popular presentation software.

After completing my PhD I wanted more: to know more, learn more, understand more, to achieve something unique. I wanted to test myself and push the limits of what is possible, not only in the short term but until I felt I had reached my goal.
Instead of securing a postdoctoral appointment, I opted to broaden my horizons away from the professional and academic worlds. Without planning or professional help, I went with the goal of finding a complete route around the world by land and waterway. Despite coming up against seeming dead ends, political tensions, war zones, natural disasters and often times a simple lack of knowledge, after exactly two years of uninterrupted travel and countless experiences richer I had achieved my goal.
During my experience abroad from 2010 to 2012, I managed to reach three oceans and all seven continents without aircraft to ultimately complete a gapless journey around the world. Traveling 200,000 kilometers, I entered 60 countries, passed 90 national boundaries and experienced an array of cultures. I documented the entire adventure in detailed daily notes, tens of thousands of photos, two video projects with dozens of hours of HD video footage, hundreds of interviews and a travel blog. Travel Blog Mathias Hentrich
In the process, my cultural horizons were expanded enormously. I also strengthened my foreign language skills and had enriching experiences with truly unique people who showed me new and unforgettable points of view. In order to share something from my own culture, I held honorary lectures. Whether in modern Taiwanese schools, standing in front of a class of more than 200 children in Bangladesh, or while visiting village schools in Indonesia or in the slums of Belize City, these lectures were more than instructive for both sides.

The aim of the summer academy is to bring together dedicated lecturers and motivated students as equal partners in a dynamic process of realization. The balance between intensive content work and self-organized activities leaves room for inspiring discussions, for the development of joint projects and ideas as well as the formation of friendships. · Summer Academies of the German National Academic Foundation
Project group 1: Will we now become god? - The new world of Synthetic Biology
Instructor: Prof. Dr. Jörg Stülke, Department of General Microbiology, University of Göttingen
The molecular biological knowledge gained in recent years has led to a deeper understanding of all elementary life processes. It is now possible to design new life on the computer and produce it in the laboratory. This is the subject of the new discipline called Synthetic Biology. In this project group, the basic findings that have led to this new direction, their significant methods and the results so far have been observed and intensively discussed.

With the PhD forums, the German National Academic Foundation offers a structured doctoral training to supplement the specialization and to improve the communication between doctoral fellows. The program allows the scientific specialization of their own research, to share experiences with other PhD students and the acquisition of interdisciplinary expertise. · PhD students forums of the German National Academic Foundation

Title: Molecular Biology of Complex Functions in Botanical Systems
Speakers: Prof. Dr. Werner Kühlbrandt (Director at the MPI of Biophysics, Frankfurt), Prof. Jean-David Rochaix (University of Geneva), Prof. Dr. Ralph Bock (MPI for Molecular Plant Physiology, Golm), Prof. Dr. Ivo Feußner (University of Göttingen), Prof. Dr. Nick Read (University of Edinburgh), Prof. Dr. Torsten Nürnberger (University of Tübingen), Prof. Dr. Ralf Reski (University of Freiburg) and more.

Topic: Career planning with Doctorate · Business College 2010
Companies represented: Kienbaum Management Consultants GmbH, McKinsey & Co, Bayer AG, Henkel AG, IBM Zurich and more.

Meeting of all doctoral forums (nature + science, history, society, literature).
With the PhD forums, the German National Academic Foundation offers a structured doctoral training to supplement the specialization and to improve the communication between doctoral fellows. The program allows the scientific specialization of their own research, to share experiences with other PhD students and the acquisition of interdisciplinary expertise. · PhD students forums of the German National Academic Foundation

Meeting of the doctoral forums nature + science and society.
With the PhD forums, the German National Academic Foundation offers a structured doctoral training to supplement the specialization and to improve the communication between doctoral fellows. The program allows the scientific specialization of their own research, to share experiences with other PhD students and the acquisition of interdisciplinary expertise. · PhD students forums of the German National Academic Foundation

"Plant Lipids: From Fundamental Research to Industrial and Food Applications" by the European Federation for the Science and Technology of Lipids (Euro Fed Lipid) supported by Bayer CropScience, BASF and more. · 4th European Symposium on Plant Lipids
Speakers: Prof. Ian Graham (University of York), Prof. Johnathan Napier (Rothamsted Research, UK), Dr. Allan Green (CSIRO Plant Industry, Australia), Prof. Randall Weselake (University of Alberta) and more.

Rector Prof. Dr. Elmar Weiler, "The Business College serves as a building block for an intensive exchange between outstanding young scientists at the Ruhr University and the economy." · Business College 2009
Companies represented: McKinsey & Co, MAN Ferrostaal AG, Investmentkontor RheinRuhr and more.

Patronage: German Botanical Society
Sponsors: Chemical Industry Fund (FCI), BASF Plant Science, Bayer Crop Science and more.
Over 50 speakers from the plant molecular biology including Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Gruissem (ETH Zurich). · Molecular Biology of Plants

With the PhD forums, the German National Academic Foundation offers a structured doctoral training to supplement the specialization and to improve the communication between doctoral fellows. The program allows the scientific specialization of their own research, to share experiences with other PhD students and the acquisition of interdisciplinary expertise. · PhD students forums of the German National Academic Foundation

The Section Days are three one-day international conferences: Life Sciences ("Signal Transduction and its Medical Relevance"), Natural Sciences and Engineering ("Surface Science and Engineering") and Humanities and Social Sciences ("Narration/Mediation: The Constitution of the `Self´ in Interdisciplinary Perspective"). They support the research discussions beyond the "campus boundaries" by combining talks of invited guest scientists and fellows with workshops and poster presentations. · Research School Section Days 2008

Assumption of costs by the German National Academic Foundation and the Ruhr-University Research School
Speakers: Ben Scheres (Utrecht University), Karin Ljung (UPSC Sweden), Paul Staswick (University of Nebraska), Jose Alonso (North Carolina State University), Yunde Zhao (UC San Diego), Hiroyuki Kasahara (RIKEN Japan), Jiri Friml (University of Ghent), Dolf Wiejers (Wageningen University), Jeff Long (Salk Institute), Chris Kuhlemeier (University of Bern), Ottoline Leyser (University of York) and more.

The Management Academy complements the academy program of study foundation due to their special, practical and project oriented form: In an intense work week it conveys not only technical, but also methodological and communicative competence. Executives of large companies, speakers from international organizations, academics, journalists and experts from various disciplines lead the working groups.

The overall theme of the event will be the question of academic freedom and its relevance for successful research. The programme of the Science College 2008 offers and calls for an inter- and transdisciplinary discussion on aspects such as personal responsibility and research conditions for independence in science.
Speakers: Prof. Dr. Peter Grünberg (Nobel Laureate in Physics), Prof. Dr. Ferdi Schüth (Director at the MPI for Coal Research and Vice President of the DFG) and more.

Title: Molecular Functions of Botanical Systems
Speakers: Prof. Yunde Zhao (UC San Diego), Prof. Kan Tanaka (University of Tokyo), Prof. Conrad Mullineaux (Queen Mary University of London), Prof. Ida van der Klei (University of Groningen), Prof. Pierre Sebban (Université de Paris) and more.

At the beginning of my studies I missed practical communication tools with other students. Shortly after enrolling, in 2002 I founded under the motto "from students for students" the student initiative "RubStudent" (Rub = Ruhr-University Bochum). The first cross-faculty online community aimed to facilitate academic and social networking between the members of the university and promote interdisciplinary communication between the different faculties. This completely neutral and advertising-free contact point grew to more than 5,000 members and over 140,000 posts about studying and living at and around Ruhr-University Bochum. The forum was online until January 2017.

To meet the increasing demands of the online community www.rubstudent.de, I founded in early 2005 with six other founding members the booster club RubStudent e.V. For the club, I was active as managing director and chairman on a voluntary basis. At peak periods there were 30 volunteers and highly committed helpers in the core team which took over responsibility in community moderation, planning of student courses and in particular the organization of interdisciplinary meetings and events with several thousand guests. In December 2005 RubStudent e.V. was officially recognized from the rectorship of the university as a member of the status group "Friends and Supporters of the Ruhr-University Bochum".

The Faculty Council is the highest committee of a faculty where all decisions are made. Here, reports from the Faculty Committee for Teaching and the Faculty Committee for Structure and Finance can be decided as well as personnel issues dealt with.

Excellent and socially committed students can apply with recommendation of their supervisors for a doctoral scholarship. The immaterial support consists of the scientific exchange of scholars among each other and with established scientists, offers advice and an extensive educational program. With the financial support doctoral students receive a monthly stipend and may apply for grants for projects abroad. As a PhD scholar of the Foundation, I received excellent ideational and financial support, as well as grants for overseas projects.

In an exclusive membership eligible to PhD students in the Ruhr-University Research School, I received rich ideational support and additional funding for office supplies, consumables, travel grants, publication costs and more.

With the establishment of the International Graduate School of Life Sciences, the basis for structured doctoral training and a unified doctoral procedure was created. By combining life sciences working groups of the Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, the Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry, the Faculty of Medicine and other groups, this graduate school offers an excellent research environment for doctoral students.

Because of the student council and committee work it was possible to have an active communication with the professors, the staff and students of the faculty of biology and biotechnology. Participating in the constructive collaboration and experiencing the organization and management of the faculty was very insightful. Besides the committee work, my tasks included advising freshmen (content and study organizational aspects), administrative activities (membership management, room extension), co-organizing of representative events (student parties, student council tours, information booths) and communicating with other student councils within and outside the university.

The examination committee mainly handles objections in biology exams and cases of hardship for students completing their theses. In addition, members of this committee deal with all aspects of examination regulations of the faculty.

An appointments committee will be formed when a chair or a working group needs a new professor / group leader. In this case, the committee was handling the appointment of a new professor for the department of plant physiology, as the existing chair holder Prof. Dr. Elmar Weiler was elected to the post of rector of the university and had to give up his chair.

The topic of this international meeting at the Ruhr-University Bochum was "Molecular Functions of Botanical Systems". In addition to general activities, my areas of particular responsibility were the buildup of the internet presentation (Typo3 CMS) and server administration.

This faculty committee deals with all matters concerning teaching. In addition to biological courses there are study-related courses of other faculties such as the improvement of chemistry or physics education. The committee also addresses restructuring the curriculum more generally and specifically.

In the Shotokan Karate Dojo Bushido Velbert registered association I was responsible for co-organizing club excursions as well as the initial setup and maintenance of the club’s website.

This nonprofit organization has the goal of promoting health and sports rehabilitation in collaboration with health insurance companies and accredited orthopedists. The focus is on the rehabilitation of fibromyalgia (chronic pain diseases), discomfort in the cardiovascular system and diseases on the apparatus and musculoskeletal system as well as in the areas of mental and multiple disabilities.