Honors and Scientific activities

Honors

• 2022 Honorary Doctorate Degree, TU Dortmund
• 2021 Elected Member of Heidelberg Academy of Science
• 2019 Konrad Zuse medal
• 2018 Werner Heisenberg-Medaille of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• 2016 Elected Member of acatech - National Academy of Science and Engineering
• 2013 Elected Member of Academia Europaea
• 2012 Google Focused Research Award
• 2011 KIT Research Professor
• 2008 Promotion as GI-Fellow (Gesellschaft für Informatik)

Scientific activities, Advisary boards

• since Oktober 2023 University Council Universität Würzburg
• since September 2023 University Council Universität Konstanz
• since Juni 2023 University Council Technischen Universität Braunschweig
• since 2023 International Advisary Board Forschungscampus Mittelhessen
• since 2023 Scientific Advisory Board Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung
• since 2017 Scientific Advisory Board ZIB - Zuse Institute Berlin (suspended February 1, 2020 - January 31, 2023)
• 2015 - 2023 Member of the German Council for Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat)
  • 2020 - 2023 Chair of the Council

• 2017 - 2020 Member of the International Commission of the Elite Network of Bavaria
• 2016 - 2020 Member of the University Council of the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg* 2015 Member of the German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat) and since 2019 deputy chair of the Scientific Commission
• 2014 - 2020 Member of the Committee for Strategic Planning of the Leibniz Association

• 2007 - 2014 Vice president of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG)
  • DFG-Senate Committee on Strategic Planning
  • Selection Committee Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize
  • Joint Committee for the Sino-German Center for Research Promotion Beijing

• 2014 - 2018 Member of the EATCS Fellows Selection Committee, 2015 Chair
• 2012 - 2018 Member of the Committee for the Allocation of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Awards
• 2012 - 2017 Member of the selection committee for research scholarships within the Elite Network of Bavaria

• 2016 - 2020 Scientific Advisory Board Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, FRIAS
• 2015 - 2020 Scientific Advisory Board NETWORKS, The NetworksCenterNL
• 2012 - 2019 Chair of the Advisory Committee for “Fast Track: Excellence and Leadership Skills for Outstanding Women in Science” of the Robert Bosch Foundation
• 2012 - 2020 Scientific Advisory Board Zukunftskolleg Konstanz
• 2012 - 2020 Board of Supervisors of the Forschungszentrum Informatik
• 2012 - 2020 Board of Supervisors of the Heinz Nixdorf Institute, Universität Paderborn
• 2010 - 2013 Helmholtz Think Tank
• 2009 - 2012 Advisory Board of the Kompetenzzentrum Bibliometrie, iFQ
• 2009/2010 Working Group IV of the Innovationsrat Baden-Württemberg
• 2004 - 2013 Speaker of the Scientific Advisory Board of Leibniz Center for Informatics Schloss Dagstuhl
• since 2003 Advisory Board of Interdisciplinary Information Sciences

• 2004 - 2010 Member of the Standing Committee for Physical and Engineering Sciences (PESC) of the European Science Foundation (ESF), since 2008 member of the core group
• 2001 - 2005 Member of the EATCS Council (European Association for Theoretical Computer Science)
• 2002 - 2004 Member of the Steering Committee of the GI
• 2000 - 2007 Elected member the DFG reviewer board for computer science; 2004 - 2007 speaker
• 2000 - 2012 Member of the selection committee for the Best Dissertation Award of the GI, 2001 - 2009 Chairperson
• 1997 - 2004 Member of the executive GI - Professor Advisory Board (GIBU), 2000 - 2004 speaker of the board
• 2002 - 2005 Member of the selection committee for DAAD-scholarships

• Editorial Boards
  • 1998 - 2013 Editor-in-Chief of JDA Journal of Discrete Algorithms
  • 1997 - 2019 Editorial board of JGAA Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications , since 2019 Advisary Board
  • 2003 - 2020 Editorial board of CGTA Computational Geometry: theory and applications
  • since 2003 Editorial board of “Leitfäden der Informatik”, B. G. Teubner
  • since 2009 Editorial board of EPTCS Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
  • since 2010 Editor-in-Chief of OASIcs: OpenAccess Series in Informatics
  • since 2017 Editorial Board of ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithms (JEA)
  • Editorial Advisory Board of the Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining, Springer-Verlag

• Steering Committees
  • 2014 - 2016 and 1999 - 2003 Member of the Steering Committee of the European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA), 2015 - 2016 and 2001 - 2003 chair of the committee
  • 2008 - 2015 and 2017 - 2020 Member of the Steering Committee of the Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX)
  • 2005 - 2008 Member of the Steering Committee of the International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD)
  • 2001 - 2020 Member of the Steering Committee of the Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modeling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS)
  • since 2000 Member of the Steering Committee of the International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG)

• Conference PCs
  • 2014 PC Chair of ESA 2014 Engineering and Applications Track
  • 2008 PC Co-Chair of the 10th Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX'2008)
  • 2006 PC Co-Chair of the 14th International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD'2006)
  • 2002 PC Chair of the 2nd Workshop on Algorithmic Methods and Models for Optimization of Railways (ATMOS'2002)
  • 2000 PC Chair of the 26th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG'2000)
  • 2000 PC Co-Chair of the 4th Workshop on Algorithm Engineering (WAE'2000)
  • PC member of WADS'93, ISAAC'95, STACS'97, WG'97, WG'98,GD'98, WG'99, OR'99, WG'00, GD'00, WAE'00, ALENEX'01, ESA'01, ICALP'01, ATMOS'01, WADS'01, WG'02, ATMOS'02, WADS'03, GD'03, WG'03, WG'04, WEA'05, ICALP'05, SOFSEM'06, WG'06, GD'06, GD'07, ISAAC'07, ALENEX'08, ALGOSENSORS'08, WG'08, WEA'08, ATMOS'08, WAW'09, ICALP'09, SEA'2010, IWOCA'2010, ASONAM'2010, Pacific Visualization 2011, ICALP'2011, ASONAM'2011, WG'2011, ALGOSENSORS'2011, GD'2011, ISAAC'2011, COCOON'2012, SODA'2013, ASONAM'2013, ESA-Track B'2013, WG'2013, ICAA'2014, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS'14, GD'14, ESA-Track B'14, ALENEX'15, MFCS'15, SEA'15, ATMOS'15, BDVA'15, CALDAM'16, IWOCA'16, COCOON'16, SODA'17, CALDAM'17, CSR'2017, SEA'2017, COCOON'2018, ISAAC'2018, SOFSEM'2019, SEA’2020

• Organization of Conferences
  • 2019 Co-organizer of Indo-German Spring School on Algorithms for Big Data, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, February 18 - 22., 2019
  • 2017 Co-organizer of Indo-German CALDAM Pre-Conference School on Algorithms and Combinatorics, K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa, India, February 13 - 14, 2017
  • 2016 Co-organizer of Indo-German Spring School on Algorithms for Big Data, IIT Madras, Chennai, India, February 22 - 26, 2016
  • 2015 Co-organizer of Indo-German Workshop on Algorithms, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, March 9 - 13, 2015
  • 2011/2012 Co-organizer of 10th DIMACS Implementation Challenge - Graph Partitioning and Graph Clustering, workshop took place at Georgia Tech February 13-14, 2012
  • 2008 Co-organizer of ALGO 2008 (ESA, WABI, WAOA, ATMOS)
  • 2006 Co-organizer of the 14th International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD'2006)
  • 2000 Organizer of the 26th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG'2000)
  • Co-organizer of Dagstuhl Seminars on “Combinatorial Methods for Integrated Circuit Design” (1993), “Graph Algorithms and Applications (1996, 1998), “Link Analysis and Visualization” (2001), “Algorithmic Aspects of Large and Complex Networks” (2001, 2003, 2005), Data Structures (2004, 2006), “Algorithmic Methods for Railway Optimization” (2004), Algorithm Engineering (2013), Algorithmic Methods for Optimization in Public Transport (2016)
  • 2005 Co-organizer of the GI-Dagstuhl-Seminar Algorithms for Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks, together with Roger Wattenhofer
  • 1999 Co-organizer of the GI-Dagstuhl-Seminars Drawing Graphs, together with Michael Kaufmann

• Project coordination
  • 2008 - 2013 Joint initiator of the DFG program 1307 "Algorithm Engineering", Coordinator Prof. Dr. Peter Sanders
  • 2006 - 2015 Deputy speaker of the DFG-Research Training Group "Self-organizing Sensor-Actuator-Networks"
  • 2001 - 2008 Joint initiator and Coordinator of the DFG program 1126 "Algorithmics of Large and Complex Networks"
  • 2000 - 2004 Joint initiator and coordinator of the EU Research Training Network AMORE: Algorithmic Methods for Optimizing the Railways in Europe

• Responsibilities within Universität Karlsruhe (TH) resp. KIT
  • 2011 - 2015 Member of the KIT Supervisory Board
  • 2011 - 2013 Member of the KIT Strategy and Research Board
  • 2010 - 2012 Member of the KIT working group for the “Excellence Initiative”
  • 2007 - 2014 Deputy speaker of the KIT-Focus COMMputation
  • 2007 - 2009 Speaker of the Competence Area Information, Communication and Organisation (ICO) and of the ICO-Field “Algorithm and Software Engineering”
  • 2006 - 2011 Member of the academic senate of the Universität Karlsruhe (TH) resp. Member of the KIT-Senate
  • 2006 - 2009 Member of the Council for the Promotion of Research and Young Scientists (CRYS)
  • 2004 - 2007 Vice dean Fakultät für Informatik