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Philip

Here we go again... New challenge, new context, new industry, new flatmates. Already rich in experience, still broke in economic units. If you can relate to the existential depth and joy of the 21st century's non-linear career path, tag along. I am uncertain of the future in all aspects but one: We won't get bored any time soon.

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So far

Every header below is a time I started again.

  1. [Photo: Industrial Engineering]
    Karlsruhe · Herford · Changzhou · Berlin

    Industrial Engineering

    • BSc Industrial Engineering at KIT.
    • Shopfloor in Herford: metalworking, welding basics, assembling and repairing presses.
    • Lean production in Changzhou: section boards for seven workshop sections.
    • Growth strategy and a three-year target P&L for a concrete goods maker with sites in Germany, France and Spain.
    • Cloud proposals for manufacturing clients and partners at SAP.
  2. [Photo: Prediction]
    Syntax · TU Delft

    Prediction

    • Built the backend of an app that reads machine nameplates with computer vision.
    • Weighed off-the-shelf AI document tools against building our own.
    • Taught data science, machine learning and agent-based modelling in Python.
  3. [Photo: Public Policy]
    Delft

    Public Policy

    • MSc Engineering & Policy Analysis at TU Delft.
    • Thesis: an agent-based simulation that stress-tests Bangladesh's roads for disaster readiness.
  4. [Photo: Economics]
    Rotterdam

    Economics

    • MSc Economics & Business at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
  5. [Photo: Private Equity]
    Rothschild & Co

    Private Equity

    • Due diligence on private market funds.
    • Strategic asset allocation research across public, private and real assets.
  6. [Photo: Flood Insurance]
    ETH Zürich

    Flood Insurance

    • Visiting researcher in the Weather and Climate Risks Group, on an IDEA League research grant.
    • How insurance take-up shifts after a price and climate shock to the US National Flood Insurance Program.
  7. [Photo: AI Policy]
    Opendata.ch · Zürich

    AI Policy

    • Operational lead of the fifth funding round of the Prototype Fund.
    • Connected software teams with grant funding and AI-compliance researchers, to launch under EU and Swiss AI law.
    • 110 teams vetted, 5 selected, CHF 1M in funding managed.

Now

  • Starting this journey right here...
  • More flood insurance modeling
  • Should we launch a startup?

Things I build

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Philip Müller

About

I studied industrial engineering and started on the shopfloor, learning to weld and repair presses. Since then I have started again more than once: lean production in China, enterprise software at SAP, policy analysis in Delft, economics in Rotterdam, private markets at Rothschild, flood insurance at ETH Zürich, and a funding programme for AI software at Opendata.ch.

It looks like a zigzag. To me it is one question asked from different sides: what does it take to build something new and make it work in the real world, technically, financially and under the rules that govern it?

Philip, again, because every step started from zero.

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