Dr. Matthias Plaue is Chief Data Scientist at MAPEGY GmbH in Berlin. He is responsible for serving actionable intelligence to the company's customers by mining information from a large number of heterogeneous, unstructured data sources, a.k.a. Big Data.

A mathematical physicist by training, he authored and published scientific works on differential geometry, relativity theory, image processing, and pedestrian dynamics.

His personal interests include the physics of time travel and artificial consciousness.