News

• My paper Stronger Hardness for Maximum Robust Flow and Randomized Network Interdiction was accepted for publication at IPCO 2026.

• This September, Fei Wu and Yanfei Chen (both jointly advised with Erik Demeulemeester) have successfully defended their PhDs. Congratulations, Dr. Fei and Dr. Yanfei!

• José Verschae and I co-chaired the program committee of WAOA 2025 (September 18-19 in Warsaw as part of ALGO 2025).

• I gave an invited talk at FRICO 2025.

• Our paper On the Approximability of Train Routing and the Min-Max Disjoint Paths Problem (with Umang Bhaskar, Katharina Eickhoff, Lennart Kauther, Britta Peis, and Laura Vargas Koch) was accepted for publication at ESA 2025.

Research Interests

My research is based at the intersection of discrete mathematics, theoretical computer science, and operations research. In particular, this includes:

• combinatorial optimization,

• design and analysis of algorithms,

• game theory and social choice,

• robustness and uncertainty,

• applications in production and logistics.

Short Bio

Since 2019, I work at KU Leuven, where I hold an appointment as Associate Professor of Operations Management in the Department of Decision Sciences and Information Management. I am also a member of the KU Leuven Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Leuven.AI) and the KU Leuven Institute for Mobility (LIM).

Before joining KU Leuven, I was a junior group leader/lecturer in the Operations Research group of Technische Universität München (2016-2018), a DAAD P.R.I.M.E. fellow at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" (2015), and a postdoc at Universidad de Chile (2014). I completed my PhD in Mathematics in 2013 at TU Berlin under the supervison of Martin Skutella and Britta Peis.