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Projects

Applied work, industry experience, and software projects from the OiCOS team.

Renée Menéndez

Monetary theory, credit money, and macro accounting — from dissertation and prolegomena to MoMaT and OiC.OS.

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Renée brings decades of work on book money, central banking, and the institutional structure of credit. This section will summarise industry projects, consulting, publications beyond MoMaT, and applied monetary-policy work. For now: sample paragraph one — regional payment infrastructure, supply-chain liquidity, and how accounting closes in practice. Sample paragraph two — collaboration with treasurers, compliance, and economists who care that the books actually close. Sample paragraph three — blogs on Substack and Soffisticated; research profile under Renée Menéndez.

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Viktor Winschel

Industry experience, applied software projects, and academic positions.

Industry Experience

Lizza Ltd. (Mexico)

2025 — Full stack AI social media marketing. Generative AI workflow automation using LLM models (AWS Bedrock, Supabase).

Traxpay GmbH

2024–2025 — Product and banking license design for supply chain finance.

Yobst GmbH

2022–2024 — Co-founder of Yobst, a digital platform for regional farming distribution. Scope: ERP systems, logistics, self-service retail (Hofladen containers), digital governance design. Built on Odoo with custom modules; data pipeline and analytics in Python.

Volkswagen / E3DC

2018–2020 — Digital twins for electric vehicles and solar power. IoT-based simulation of 80,000 solar systems and 30,000 EVs; data-driven customer segmentation.

DNV

2014–2015 — Pumped storage power plant digital twins. Nonlinear dynamic optimization for energy storage decisions.

Metzler / ZEW

1996–1997 — Derivative portfolio simulation at investment bank Metzler in cooperation with ZEW.

media mutant

1994–1996 — Founder and manager of "media mutant", a production company for music videos and short films. Led a team comprising three filmmakers, two directors, and one cameraman—the first generation of graduates from what is now the renowned Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg. Pioneered early media production in Stuttgart, contributing to the city's emergence as a center for the media industry.

Software Projects

OiC.OS engine

2025–2026 — With Renée Menéndez. OiC.OS: executable formal specification of a national accounting system. Full stack from double-entry bookkeeping (Lawvere theory T_DEB) through quadruple-entry profunctor accounting (T_QEB) to Agent-Bank-Central-Bank hierarchies with coend aggregation. Includes coinductive stability proofs, simplex clearing hylomorphisms, AR(1)-stochastic simulations, open-games governance, categorical legal contracts (BGB), and algebraic-effects analysis of the G-W-G' investment cycle.

Coalgebraic DSGE Estimation Engine

2026 — Nonlinear DSGE model estimation. Lazy evaluation reduces huge systems of equations; six nested numerical layers: function approximation, numerical integration, root finding, nonlinear time-series filtering, likelihood evaluation, and posterior approximation (sparse-grid Smolyak integration, dimension-adaptive; automatic differentiation; bisimulation-based model comparison).

Yobst ERP and Platform Architecture

2022–2024 — Designed and partly implemented the ERP system for the Yobst regional farming distribution platform: producer onboarding, inventory and order management, dynamic pricing, logistics for smart self-service farm shops, invoicing, and AI-assisted demand forecasting.

Prosumer

2022 — With Volkswagen, E3DC, Q-nnect, lambdaforge. Software for combined systems of VW e-cars and E3DC IoT home power plants; simulation and structural econometric analysis.

CatAcc

2020 — With B. Beronov. Category-theoretic implementation of accounting systems using automata, based on Algebraic Models for Accounting Systems by Rambaud et al.

Open Games Modelling Framework

2017 — With FPComplete. AWS cloud system with user interface for compositional game theory in Haskell.

Optimal Control of Pumped Storage Plants

2015 — For DNV. Bayesian estimation of nonlinear multi-agent systems in decentralized saving decisions.

Coalgebraic Framework for Games in Economics

2013 — With A. Blumensath. Compositional game theory simulation engine in Haskell.

JBendge

2007 — With M. Krätzig. Java Based Bayesian Estimation of Nonlinear DSGE Models — simulation and estimation for central banks.

Academic Positions

SRH Cologne, University of Applied Sciences

since 2025 — Professor for Quantitative Methods. Lectures in operations research, supply chain operations, digital supply chains, applied statistics, and management information systems.

University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

2018–2020 — Research Associate. Compositional compilers for Open Games in multi-agent AI systems.

ETH Zurich

2015–2017 — Research Associate. Uncertainty quantification and global sensitivity analysis for economic models (Risk Center).

University of Oxford

2011–2016 — Research Collaborator. Programming language design with Prof. Samson Abramsky and Prof. Dusko Pavlovic.

University of Mannheim

2008–2014 — Post-doctoral Researcher. Monetary policy and macroeconometrics, Chair of Prof. Klaus Adam.

2005–2008 — Post-doctoral Researcher. Computational economics, Chair of Prof. Felix Kübler.

2000–2005 — Doctoral Researcher. Ph.D. in monetary and currency policy (summa cum laude, 2005).

2004–2011 — University lecturer: monetary economics, macroeconomics, numerical economics, computational econometrics, artificial intelligence (with CS faculty), and related courses; supervision of 60 seminar papers and 30 theses.

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa / ASEcolab

2015–2024 — Associated member of the Adaptive Security and Economics Laboratory (Dusko Pavlovic, Royal Holloway London and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa). Research seminars and collaboration on coalgebraic economics and game theory.