[ curriculum vitae ]
- Date of birth: 07.07.1981
- Place of birth: Essen, Germany
- Citizenship: German
Research interests
- Approximation algorithms
- Combinatorics
- Network design
- Scheduling
Education + positions
- 2011-2012 PostDoc at M.I.T. (supported by the Alexander
von Humboldt Foundation within the Feodor Lynen program)
- 2009-2010 PostDoc at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 2008-2009 PhD student at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 2006-2008 PhD student at University of Paderborn, Germany
- 2002-2006 Studies of computer science at TU Dortmund,
Germany
Awards + honors
- Co-winner of the 42nd ACMSymposiumon Theory of Computing
(STOC 2010) Best Paper Prize for the work: “An Improved LP-based
Approximation for Steiner Tree”
- Feodor Lynen research stipend
- Award as best Computer Science graduate (with a prize of
500 EURO) at TU Dortmund, Germany