Bastian is a Senior Machine Learning Research Engineer at idealo Internet GmbH, where he focuses on large-scale offer cataloging and high-throughput machine learning systems. Before joining idealo in 2025, he was an Assistant Professor at Linköping University in Sweden, leading a research group in 3D computer vision.
He completed his PhD in 2020 at Leibniz University Hannover with a thesis on 3D human pose estimation and subsequently spent two years at the University of British Columbia in Canada as a PostDoc, expanding his research into broader areas of 3D computer vision and teaching related courses.