About Judy

I grew up in rural Austria as an only child, and from an early age I always wanted to know more and understand things deeper. I was, what you might call an understanding junkie. The whole world was a riddle to be solved, be it figuring out how a Rubik’s cube works, why Mozart sounds a lot better than when I just played random notes on the piano, or how other people think. 

After high school in Austria, I moved to Cape Town, South Africa, initially in order to do volunteer work in a children’s home for 9 months. 9 months turned into 11 years in Cape Town, in which I earned a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, besides invaluable life lessons. These 11 years in South Africa taught me so much about life from a different perspective, which I couldn’t have gained if I stayed in Austria.

After finishing my Ph.D., I moved to Germany for a postdoctoral fellowship. During this time, I increasingly spent more and more of my free time giving popular science talks and workshops, and science slams. This is when I found out that my true passion lies in both helping people understand complex topics, as well as helping people explain their complex topics to others. I firmly believe that understanding does not only people you power, but it gives them, immense joy, and I want to see this joy being passed on to as many people as possible!

Therefore, I decided to leave academia and start my own business fulfilling this purpose. In my coaching business, I strive to help people improve their presentation skills in order to make this topics accessible to more people. As a keynote speaker, I popularize science and aim to show my audience that they, too, can understand difficult topics (especially in maths) in a meaningful way.

I am always eager to learning new and improving my current skills:

• I am currently in the process of learning video editing so that I can create educational and entertaining Youtube content about maths; this is still painstakingly slow which is why I currently only have very few videos published on my channel, but more are coming, I promise! 
• I have been learning about Jung’s cognitive functions and Myers-Briggs types for years in order to better understand how different people learn and process information, and make decisions based on this information. I continuously attend workshops on the topic in order to better my understanding. 
• Mathematics will always be a passion of mine. I continue to read textbooks and research papers on topics I’m particularly interested in, and am always thinking about ways to explain these topics to various audiences.