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since December 2008
Professor at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität MainzHead of the research group on "Algorithmics"

December 2009 - December 2015
Senior Researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken

April 2007 - November 2008
Senior Researcher at the Max-Planck-Insitut für Informatik, Saarbrücken
Heading research area "Combinatorial Optmization"

October 2005 - March 2007
Visiting Professor at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Head of the research group on "Theoretical Computer Science"

April 2004 - September 2005
Head of an independent research group at the Laboratoire lorrain de recherche en informatique et ses applications (LORIA), Nancy
Heading a research group on "Optimization in Bioinformatics"

September 2002 - March 2004
Postdoc at the Max-Planck-Insitut für Informatik, Saarbrücken

September 2001 - August 2002
Postdoc at the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA

May 2001 - August 2001
Postdoc at the Max-Planck-Insitut für Informatik, Saarbrücken

February 1999 - April 2001
Researcher at the Max-Planck-Insitut für Informatik, Saarbrücken
Ph. D. candidate in Computer Science at University of Saarbrücken (Universität des Saarlandes) and at MPII.

January 2008
Habilitation
Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken

April 2001
Promotion
Supervisor: Kurt Mehlhorn
Title: Curve Reconstruction and the Traveling Salesman Problem

December 1998
Diploma
Supervisor: Kurt Mehlhorn
Title: Berechnung optimaler Steinerbäume in der Ebene

Vertiefung Komplexitätstheorie