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André is a staff member and applied physicist in the EP-SFT group. Since October 2021, he has been the deputy coordinator of the EP R&D software work package. In EP R&D, he is also the leader of the Key4hep Turnkey Software Stack task. André has developed simulation and reconstruction software and distributed computing solutions for future colliders, and CLIC in particular, since he was a PhD student in the Wolfgang Gentner Programme at CERN. He obtained his PhD on Background studies for the CLIC detector from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2012. As a CERN Fellow and staff member he participated in the AIDA, AIDA2020, and AIDAinnova projects, co-developing among other things the DD4hep detector geometry toolkit.