Curriculum Vitae
February 2015
Priv.-Doz. (Habilitation) in Computer Science at KIT
since February 2014
KIT Associate Fellow
January 2010 – August 2010
Research visit at University of California Irvine with Prof. David Eppstein and Prof. Michael T. Goodrich
since October 2009
Head of the young investigator group (YIG) Algorithms for Geovisualization at KIT
March 2009 – September 2009
Postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Informatics, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
October 2005 – February 2009
PhD student and research assistant at the Faculty of Informatics, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
- KIT Dissertation Award 2010 for the best PhD thesis in the competence area Information, Communication, and Organization
- February 2009
Defense of my PhD thesis with the title: Network Visualization: Algorithms, Applications, and Complexity (summa cum laude) - since November 2008
Research assistant in the group Algorithmics I of Prof. Dr. Dorothea Wagner - September 2007
Research visit of Dr. Joachim Gudmundsson, NICTA, Sydney, Australia - February 2007
Research visit of Prof. Takeshi Tokuyama, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan and of Dr. Takeaki Uno, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan - October 2005 – October 2008
Research assistant in the junior research group Geometric Networks and their Visualization. Supervisor: Dr. Alexander Wolff.
October 1999 – August 2005
Studies of Computer Science at the Faculty of Informatics, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
- 21.07.2006
Graduation Award for the best Diploma thesis at the Faculty of Informatics in the academic year 2005/06 - 03.05.2006
NRW Undergraduate Science Award 2005 of the International Graduate School Dynamic Intelligent Systems (Universität Paderborn) for the article “A Mixed-Integer Program for Drawing High-Quality Metro Maps” - August 2005
Diploma (equiv. to Master's degree) in Computer Science
Thesis title: Automated Drawing of Metro Maps - September 2002 – July 2003
Visiting student at McGill University, Montreal, Canada