Company Founders
Until now we have one company that was started out of the DSS team. Of course, we hope that we will have several other companies that were founded out of the DSS team.
sonoware GmbH
In 2016 three PhD students (Christian Lüke, Stephan Senkbeil and Jochen Withopf) as well as one Master student (Merikan Koyun) who did his thesis in the DSS team started the company sonoware. Details on this company can be found on their webpage.
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| Merikan Koyun | Christian Lüke | Stephan Senkbeil | Jochen Withopf |




Since early summer, Julius Braun-Dullaeus, David Thesing and Martin Semmelrodt have joined the DSS team, bringing expertise in embedded systems, sensor hardware and physics. Julius has been connected to DSS throughout his studies, working on stochastic modeling and underwater signal processing. His current work focuses on a drone-based system for localizing and classifying magnetic objects. David continues his master’s research at DSS, combining thin-film sensor development with real-time signal processing for 3D SONAR beamforming. Martin joined in August after completing his master’s degree in theoretical physics. Having first encountered DSS through a collaboration at Müller-BBM, he now works on drone-based magnetic detection of underwater objects and will take over the project from Julius in January.