Contact
+49 711 685 88328
+49 711 685 88310
Email
Universitätsstraße 38
70569 Stuttgart
Germany
Room: 1.111
Office Hours
by appointment via EMail to our secretary
Note: In case you have matters regarding the Prüfungsausschuss (PA) Informatik, please send EMail to pa-inf@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de.
Subject
algorithmics, discrete optimization, algorithm engineering, computational geometry, wireless networking, geospatial algorithms
For a list of my publications see here at DBLP or at Google Scholar.
- since 03/2010 Full Professor of Computer Science at University of Stuttgart
- 10/2007 – 02/2010 Full Professor of Computer Science at University of Greifswald
- 2005 – 2007 Heading Research Group Geometry-guided Design and Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks within the Max-Planck-Center for Visual Computing and Communication
- 2004 – 2005 Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University, CS Department
- 2001 – 2004: Postdoctoral Researcher at Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
- 2001 PhD in Computer Science at the University of the Saarland / Max-Planck-Institut f. Informatik
Advisors: Edgar Ramos and Kurt Mehlhorn - 1993 – 1998 Diploma in Computer Science at the University of the Saarland
- 2015 Google Faculty Research Award
- 2014 Best Paper Award at 40th Int. Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB)
- 2014 Best Paper Award at 37th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI)
- 2014 Honorable Mention at the 28th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
- 2012 Google Research Award (Focused Grant Program)
- 2011 Best Paper Award at ACM SIGSPATIAL Int. Conf on Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL GIS)
- 2008 SaarLB Forschungspreis (joint with H. Bast)
- 2007 Heinz-Billing Award for the Advancement of Scientific Computing (joint with H. Bast)
- 2005 2nd Place in Best Paper Category at ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modelling (ACM SPM)
- 2002 Otto Hahn Medal of the Max-Planck-Society (Dissertation Award)