There are almost infinite ways on how one can design learning opportunities for students, here you can find a selection of those. Some of the participants later wrote their Thesis with me.
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Algorithmic Battle
Algorithmic Battle
I am very proud of the lab course Algorithmic Battle, which I have hosted in recent years:
In this unique teaching concept, some teams compete against each other by writing an instance generator and an instance solver for given problems. Then each team's solver must try to solve the generated instances of the other groups. Therefore, the students will find out themselves what makes problems hard. Furthermore, they might realize how important rigorous testing is.
In Winter 2025/2026 for the first time, we also welcomed students from partner universities to join the lab remotely, allowing all students to get experience of working in one group with international peers without the need to travel physically.
I am proud that we received funding from a Freiraum Grant by Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre, from a grant in the ICON ENHANCE Call 2025, and from the ENHANCE Testbed Competition, in order to develop and improve the lab course.
Competitive Programming
Competitive Programming
There are plenty of ways on how to motivate yourself for algorithms - and one of them is to go to a competition to challenge yourself and others. To practice for them, we were organizing lab courses with weekly mock-competitions.
The picture stems from a competition we hosted at RWTH Aachen with about 180 participants.
Programming Contest at RWTH Aachen in 2022
Response of Donald Knuth
Helping Donald Knuth
Helping Donald Knuth
For his book "The Art of Computer Programming", Donald Knuth regularly asks on his website to try the exercises stated in recent chapters, and to write whether we think they are solved correctly or if they contain bugs. At RWTH, we organized a course where we, together with our students, tried to find answers to some of the stated problems.
And indeed, some of our students received a check from the Bank of San Serriffe .
Participating at IMC
Participating at IMC
In 2022 and 2023, I have been the initial leader of the RWTH Aachen Team at the International Mathematics Competition for University Students (IMC) in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. I am glad to see that there have been a RWTH team every year since then.
The RWTH Team at IMC 2023
Other Lectures and Seminars
Other Lectures and Seminars
As an organizer or teaching assistant at RWTH Aachen:
Analysis of Algorithms
Advanced course for about 50 participants
Winter 2025/2026Online Algorithms
Seminar for about 20 students
Summer 2021 and 2025Data Structures and Algorithms
Basic Lecture for every CS-bachelor student and others with CS as minor (about 1100 participants)
Summer 2021 and 2024Formal Languages, Automata, Processes
Basic Lecture for every CS-bachelor Student (about 1000 participants)
Summer 2022 and 2023Decision Theory
Seminar with about 15 participants
Summer 2023Proofs from the Book
Proseminar with about 10 participants in the early bachelor
Winter 2021/2022Dynamic Algorithms
Seminar with about 15 participants
Summer 2022Certifying Algorithms
Proseminar with about 10 participants in the early bachelor
Summer 2022
As a student assistant/tutor at RWTH Aachen:
Complexity Theory
Advanced Course with about 60 participants
Lecturer: Martin Grohe
Winter 2020/2021Microeconomics II
Basic Course mainly for business students with 40 students per tutorial
Lecturer: Oliver Lorz
Summer 2018, 2019, and 2020Calculus for Computer Scientists
First-Year Math course for CS students (Tutorial with ~60 participants)
Lecturer: Benjamin Stamm
Summer 2017
I feel honored that my efforts in teaching are well received by the audience, and that the students nominated and shortlisted me for the teaching award of our faculty.
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