Hello to the planet

I noted that thanks to clee I have been added to planet.kde.org now as well. This requires just another "Hello to the planet" message to introduce me briefly.

I am one of the developers of Digikam for about two years now (it's really so long already? Can't believe. Time is running.). Main fields of my work have been e.g. multithreaded image loading and recently the database upgrade we are currently busy with for our KDE4 version.
Yes, not much is more sweet than a mutex and a cond var.

In daily life I am a medical student at the university of Essen, Germany, in the 4th year now, learning for exams and working on my MD thesis in physiological chemistry. No, no computer science, physics or mathematics background here ;-)