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open — graduate data science roles · start 2027

Paul Niggenaber

Data science, grounded in statistical inference. Econometrics and Bayesian methods from an economics degree, applied to machine learning — built end to end, documented, and shipped.

MSc Data Science, BI Norwegian Business School Oslo, Norway graduating 2027-06
research bayesian-inference
nlp · econometrics

Nowcasting Recession Risk

Bachelor thesis: nowcasting US recession probability from macroeconomic, financial, and text-based predictors — estimated under both Bayesian and frequentist frameworks, a head-to-head comparison of the two paradigms on one forecasting problem.

end-to-end ml web-scraping
xgboost · catboost

Predicting Football Transfer Fees

A complete pipeline on real, messy data: scraping fbref and Transfermarkt, feature engineering, gradient-boosted regression with randomized search, and a feature-importance analysis of what actually drives player valuations.

deep learning tensorflow
variational-inference

Image Generation with VAEs

A variational autoencoder built as structured software, not a notebook — CLI, data loaders, loss modules — generating MNIST digits in grayscale and color. Variational inference in practice: KL divergence, the reparameterization trick, learned latent spaces. Graded A.

experience

2026 —

Product Intern · Two AS, Oslo

Product-department internship at a B2B fintech — buy-now-pay-later for business trade.

2024 – 2025

Working Student, R&D · Kuraray Europe, Troisdorf

Python tooling (Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib) for R&D measurement analysis; automated hazardous-material labeling with an Excel/VBA tool the employer flagged as a standout; built automation for a department digitalization push; collected measurement data used to train AI models.

2022 – 2025

BSc Economics · University of Cologne

Self-directed quantitative specialization: econometrics, multivariate data analysis, empirical methods, market design. Thesis at the Institute of Econometrics and Statistics.

profile

methods
Statistical inference/machine learning/Bayesian & frequentist statistics/econometrics/optimization
stack
Python/SQL/R/Excel + VBA/LaTeX
languages
German (native)/English (C2)/Norwegian (learning)
2026–27
Exchange semester at Bocconi, Milan · MSc completion in Oslo, June 2027
off-duty
Ultra running/tennis/guitar/video editing

contact

Looking for a graduate data science role starting mid-2027 — Oslo, Germany, or elsewhere in Europe. If your team does rigorous inference on real business problems, let's talk.