Born in Nuremberg in 1974, Niklas is a diy particle physicist, conceptor and inventor of useless things. Before studying at the University of the Arts in Berlin, he worked as a visual effect supervisor in the film business. Later, he founded the single-member-artist-collective "Royrobotiks" of which he's CEO and janitor at the same time. Over the past years, Niklas has built several large interactive installations, such as the "Pneumatic Sponge Ball Accelerator" for the Tschumi Pavillion in Groningen or "Galactic Dimension" - a supersized pinball machine for Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg.