After successfully completing secondary school and the technical baccalaureate in electrical engineering, Tom studied electrical engineering at the University of Paderborn and obtained his master's degree there. During this time, he worked as a research assistant with a Bachelor's degree (WHB) at the Fraunhofer Institute for Electronic Nano Systems ENAS in the ASE department. Currently, he is working as a research associate at TU Dortmund University in the Image Signal Processing group. His current work focuses on machine learning and image processing.