--- layout: person title: Jan Frederik Schaefer fullname: M.Sc. Jan Frederik Schaefer role: phd-student pic: public/images/jfschaefer.jpg github: jfschaefer researchgate: Jan_Frederik_Schaefer2 orcid: 0000-0003-2545-4626 publink: auto start_date: 2014-03 --- I completed my undergraduate studies at [Jacobs University](https://www.jacobs-university.de/). After working as a backend software engineer for Skype in Prague, Czech Republic, I returned to university to pursue a master's degree and now a PhD at [FAU](https://www.fau.de/), following the KWARC research group's relocation to South Germany. My research interest is in the area of math linguistics, i.e. processing and understanding the language of mathematical/technical documents. Mathematical language differs from natural language in several ways (formulas, introducing new words on the go, high precision, etc.), making it a very fascinating topic. Email: `fullname.replace(" ", ".") + "@" + "fau.de"`