Curriculum Vitae
Education, Employment & Fellowships
Lecturer in Theoretical Computer Science
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London
10/2021 - 12/2023
Senior Research Associate in Algorithms and Complexity Theory
Member of the Algorithms and Complexity Theory Theme at the Department for Computer Science at Oxford University, headed by Leslie Ann Goldberg.
11/2021 - 09/2022
Julia de Lacy Mann Fellow
Merton College, University of Oxford
10/2019 - 09/2021
Junior Research Fellow in Computer Science
Merton College, University of Oxford
08/2016 - 09/2019
PhD Student in Computer Science
Saarland University and Cluster of Excellence (MMCI), supervised by Holger Dell.
Thesis Title: Counting Problems on Quantum Graphs: Parameterized and Exact Complexity Classifications.
Defended on July 15th, 2019.
10/2014 - 09/2019
Graduate School of Computer Science at Saarland University
01/2016 - 05/2016
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
Visiting graduate student in the program Counting Complexity and Phase Transitions.
02/2015
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Thesis Title: The Complexity of (Parameterized) Counting Problems on Line Graphs.
Supervised by Markus Bläser.
Awarded with the Bachelor-Prize of the Computer Science Faculty of Saarland University.
10/2011 - 09/2014
Bachelor's studies in Computer Science
Saarland University.
Minor subject: Mathematics.
Invited Talks
06/2023: FPT Fest 2023 in the honour of Mike Fellows, University of Bergen
05/2023: Pop-up Spring TCS Workshop, King's College London
01/2023: Combinatorics Study Group, Queen Mary University of London
05/2022: Theoretical Computer Science Seminar, University of Birmingham
03/2022: ACiD Seminar, University of Durham
11/2021: Seminar at the Dept. of Computer Science, University of Milan
08/2021: GGGC Conference, University of Newcastle
05/2021: Parameterised Complexity Seminar, Online Seminar Series
Workshops & Seminars
11/2022: Counting and Sampling: Algorithms and Complexity, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics
10/2019: IGAFIT Workshop for Algorithms Postdocs in Europe (AlgPiE by IGAFIT 2019), Będlewo Palace
09/2018: Operations Research and Parameterized Complexity Workshop, Bergen
08/2017: Computational Counting, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics
06/2017: Syntax and Semantics of Low-Level Languages (LOLA), Reykjavik
Presentation of: Yannick Forster, Fabian Kunze and Marc Roth. The Strong Invariance Thesis for a Lambda Calculus.
01/2017: Randomization in Parameterized Complexity Theory, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics
Academic Service
2023:
PC Member of the 31tst Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2023, Track A)
External Reviewer for SODA, ICALP, Computational Complexity, SIAM Journal on Computing and the Journal of the ACM
2022: External reviewer for CCC, Discrete Applied Mathematics and SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
2021: External reviewer for FOCS, SODA, ICALP, WG, ESA, Algorithmica, and ACM Transactions on Algorithms
2020:
PC Member of the 15th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2020)
External Reviewer for SODA, ITCS, STACS, FOCS , MFCS, CCC, SIAM Journal on Computing and the Journal of Computer and System Sciences
2019: External reviewer for ICALP, SODA, WG, MFCS and ESA
2018: External reviewer for CSR, ICALP, STACS and the Journal of Computer and System Sciences
2017: External reviewer for ISAAC and Algorithmica
2016: External reviewer for ESA
Hobbies & Interests
I am playing the clarinet since 2000 and have very basic knowledge and experience in conducting wind ensembles.
I enjoy dancing and have some experience in ballroom and Latin dances. My favourite is Quick Step.
I enjoy modern mainstream pop-culture in almost every form.