Daniel Thilo Schroeder is a third-year Ph.D. student at the Technical University of Berlin in cooperation with the Simula Research Laboratory and the Simula Metropolitan Center for engineering in Oslo Norway. He received a master's degree in computer science from the Technical University of Berlin working on large-scale data processing engines for distributed machine learning. His current research targets the network-based examination of news spreading phenomena. Moreover he is interested in accelerator programming distributed systems specifically distributed data types