Franz Knizia works as an actuarial consultant in the accounting and risk management team at Meyerthole Siems Kohlruss (MSK). He completed his bachelor's degree in applied mathematics at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and then moved to Koblenz University of Applied Sciences in Remagen for his master's degree, which he completed with a master's thesis on “Observable Latent Neural Ordinary Differential Equations for irregular-sampled Time Series.” His focus at MSK is on the industrial data pool.