Michel studied physics at the Dresden University of Technology from 2008 to 2014 with specialization in the field of General Relativity. His diploma thesis "Newtonian BD-Spin-Moments and Gravito-magentism of the solar system" was realized at the Institute of Theoretical Physics and the chair of Astronomy of the TU Dresden. In 2014 he joined the group "Computational Nanoelectronics" as a PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Frank Ortmann at the IfWW to work on simulations of charge-transport phenomena in molecular structures.