Program/Steering committee member for several international conferences including IPEC 2025, LATIN 2024, SWAT 2024, etc.; Organizer of multiple workshops and meetings such as Lorentz Center Workshop 'Graph Decompositions: Small Width, Big Challenges', etc.; Reviewer for various journals.
Research Experience
- Since September 2017: Professor for theoretical computer science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- January 2015 - August 2017: Professor for theoretical computer science at University of Bonn
- November 2012 - December 2014: Junior research group leader at Technical University Berlin
- September 2012 - October 2012: Postdoc at Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics
- September 2010 - August 2012: Postdoc at Utrecht University working with Hans L. Bodlaender
Education
- PhD: March 2008 - August 2010, Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics, supervised by Kurt Mehlhorn
- Bachelor's Degree: October 2002 - December 2007, Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Computer Science
Background
Research Interests: Parameterized complexity, Efficient preprocessing, Computational complexity.
Miscellany
Community service: Involved in numerous academic activities and services, including being a member of the IPEC steering committee (2015-2018) and serving as the chair of the committee from 2016 to 2018.