since February 2025: Tenure-track assistant professor (Juniorprofessor) of Computer Science (Theory of Algorithms) at the University of Cologne
since May 2022, on leave since February 2025: Associate professor (assistant professor until April 2024) at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Southern Denmark
2022: Distinguished Paper Award at IJCAI 2022
2019: ACM SIGecom Award for Best Full Paper at EC 2019
2017: DAAD PRIME Fellowship
2017: GOR Dissertation Award
October 2019-March 2022: Interim Professor of Computer Science (first year) and Postdoctoral Researcher at Universität zu Köln
May 2018-September 2019: DAAD PRIME Fellow on Project “Online Algorithms for Self-Organizing Data Structures and Scheduling Beyond the Worst Case”
June 2018-May 2019: ENS Rue d'Ulm with Claire Mathieu
May 2018 and June-September 2019: TU München with Susanne Albers
October 2016-April 2018: Postdoctoral Fellow within CONICYT Collaborative Grant “Fast Approximation Algorithm for Massive Data Sets” with José Soto and Andreas Wiese
October 2016-May 2017 and October 2017-April 2018: Universidad de Chile
June-October 2017: Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
April-September 2016: Postdoctoral Researcher at TU München with Nicole Megow
May 2013-April 2016: Ph.D. Student (Combinatorial Optimization) at TU Berlin with Nicole Megow
October 2010-September 2012: M.Sc. Student (Computer Science; Applied Subject: Mathematics) at RWTH Aachen
April 2007-October 2010: B.Sc. Student (Applied Computer Science) at Universität Duisburg-Essen
2010: Abitur at Friedrich-Spee-Gymnasium Geldern
September-October 2025: Simons Center for the Theory of Computing
February-March 2024: New York University with Lisa Hellerstein
April-June 2015: University of Pittsburgh with Kirk Pruhs
Organization of Conferences and Workshops: PhD School on Algorithms and Machine Learning in Odense '25, Dagstuhl on Approximation Algorithms for Stochastic Optimization '25, MAPSP '24, ARCO '23
Program Committees: EC '25, SOSA '25, WAOA '24, EC '24, LATIN '24, ECML/PKDD '23, WAOA '20
In addition, in total 94 Reviews for Conferences such as recently: ITCS '25, SODA '25, ICALP' 24, SOSA '24, SODA '24, SoCG '23, STOC '23, IPCO '23, SODA '23, FOCS '22, SOSA '22, SODA '22, ...
In total 37 Reviews for Journals (not counting revisions) such as: SIAM Journal on Computing, ACM Transactions on Algorithms, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, Mathematics of Operations Research, Operations Research, European Journal on Operations Research, Algorithmica, ...