Member of the editorial board of Algorithmica and advisory board of TheoretiCS.
Member of the steering committees of ESA and ALENEX.
Program committee member for LATIN 2026.
Organized ALGO 2023, the premier European event on algorithms, at CWI in Amsterdam.
Served on program committees of numerous conferences including CPM, WABI, SPIRE, ALENEX, ISAAC, etc., and co-chaired several (e.g., ALENEX 2024, WABI 2024, CPM 2019, SEA 2017).
Recent publications in ICDE 2026, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (2025), ICDM 2025, ESA 2025, VLDB Journal (2025), etc.
Supervised PhD students including Esteban Gabory (2024), Michelle Sweering (2024), Lorraine Ayad (2019), Chang Liu (2019), Ahmad Retha (2018); currently supervising Ben Bals and Hilde Verbeek.
Research Experience
Research Associate at the Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, and Visiting Scientist at the Scientific Computing group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (2012–2013).
Lecturer (2013) and Senior Lecturer (2018) in Computer Science, Department of Informatics, King's College London.
Senior Researcher at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) since 2019, leading the 'Algorithms and Data Structures for Sequence Analysis' team in the Networks & Optimization group.
Visiting Associate Professor at Vrije Universiteit (VU) Department of Computer Science since 2020.
Teaches the graduate course 'Algorithms in Sequence Analysis' (6 EC) at VU.