Daniel Braun (born 1992) is a German

computer scientist A computer scientist is a scientist who specializes in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation. Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on ...

. He is an assistant professor at the

University of Twente The University of Twente ( ; Abbreviation, abbr. ) is a Public university, public technical university located in Enschede, Netherlands. The university has been placed in the top 170 universities in the world by multiple central ranking tables. ...

Life

Braun was born in

Saarbrücken Saarbrücken (; Rhenish Franconian: ''Sabrigge'' ; ; ; ; ) is the capital and largest List of cities and towns in Germany, city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken has 181,959 inhabitants and is Saarland's administrative, commerci ...

and studied

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Saarland University Saarland University (, ) is a public research university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in six faculties that cover all major ...

and the

University of Aberdeen The University of Aberdeen (abbreviated ''Aberd.'' in List of post-nominal letters (United Kingdom), post-nominals; ) is a public university, public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland. It was founded in 1495 when William Elphinstone, Bis ...

. He obtained his PhD from the

Technical University of Munich The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; ) is a public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It specializes in engineering, technology, medicine, and applied and natural sciences. Established in 1868 by King Ludwig II ...

in 2021.

Awards

* 2022: KlarText – Prize for Science Communication, Dr.-Heinz-Sebiger-Prize

Bibliography

* ''Let’s Play Minecraft: Dein Redstone-Guide'', 2015. * ''Let's Play Minecraft: Plugins programmieren mit Java'', 2015. * ''Let’s Play Minecraft : Dein Praxis-Guide'', 2014. * ''Roboter programmieren mit NXT-G : für LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT'', 2011. * ''Roboter programmieren mit NXC für LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT'' 2nd Edition, 2010.

External links

Daniel Braun’s page on the site of the German national library

Daniel Braun’s private page
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