Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the School of Computer Science and Informatics, University of Liverpool
E-Mail: Firstname.Lastname [at ] liverpool [dot] ac [dot] uk
Address: Ashton Building, Ashton Street, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX, United Kingdom
October 2025: Paper accepted at SODA'26. Check my publication list!
September 2025: I am on the program committee of ICALP'26 (Track A). This is the flagship conference of the EATCS. Please consider submitting your best papers.
January 2025: Paper accepted at SoCG'25: Sublinear Data Structure for Nearest Neighbor in Ultra High Dimensions; joint work with Martin G. Herold, Danupon Nanongkai, Nithin Varma, and Zihang Wu
If you're interested in pursuing a PhD under my supervision, please read my publications and reach out if you are enthusiastic about my research area. If our interests align I am happy to help apply for funding. (Due time constraints, I can only reply to requests that are clearly to related to my research interests.)
Algorithms (Approximation, Parameterized Approximation), Combinatorial Opimization, Geometric Optimization, Data Mining (Clustering), Network Design
Faculty positions: Lecturer (UK equivalent to an Assistant Professor rank at a North American university) at the School of Computer Science and Informatics, University of Liverpool, UK since August 2024; previously Lecturer at the University of Sheffield, UK (2023-24)
Postdoc positions: Max Planck Insitute for Informatics (MPI-INF), Germany (host: Danupon Nanongkai); Aalto University, Finland (host: Parinya Chalermsook); University of Würzburg, Germany (host: Alexander Wolff); University of Wrocław, Poland (host: Jarosław Byrka).
Education: Habilitation (2017) and PhD (2010, supervisor: Hartmut Noltemeier); both at University of Würzburg, Germany
DFG grant "Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems with Packing Constraints" (since 2020)
Martin Herold (since 2022) at MPI-INF, Saarbrücken, Germany
Krzysztof Fleszar (2012-16), now assistant professor at University of Warsaw, Poland
Kamyar Khodamoradi (2020-21), now assistant professor at University of Regina, Canada
Program Committees: ICALP'26 (Track A), SOFSEM'26, WAOA'24, EuroCG'24, CALDAM'22, EuroCG'20, CALDAM'20, CALDAM'19
Organisation
Dagstuhl Seminar on Parameterized Approximation: Algorithms and Hardness (2023)
ADFOCS Summerschool on Algorithmic Foundations of Data Analysis at MPI-INF (2023)
Organising committees: ALGO'18, GD'14