Noah Ziethen was an undergraduate physics student at the Georg-August-University Göttingen. He wrote his bachelor’s thesis in the MPRG of Biological Physics and Morphogenesis at the MPIDS. He focused on the computational analysis of microscopic data of growing transport networks. His findings complemented the research on the Physarum polycephalum. After completing his master’s, Noah joined David Zwicker’s group at the Max Planck Institut for Dynamics and Self-Organization for his Ph.D.