Research Group (Algorithms & Complexity)
- Manuel Jakob, PhD Student @TU Graz
- Florian Schager, PhD Student @TU Graz
- Malte Baumecker, PhD Student @TU Graz
- Kritika Kashyap, PhD Student @TU Graz
- Tijn de Vos, Postdoc@TU Graz
- Kyungjin Cho, Postdoc@TU Graz
- Besjana Jacaj, Master Student @TU Graz
Past members
- Armand Ledoux, Intern from ENS Rennes (May to July 2025)
Short CV
- since 2025 · Head of the newly founded Institute of Algorithms and Theory at TU Graz
- since 2024 · University Professor at Faculty of Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering at TU Graz, Austria
- 2021-2024 · Assistant Professor at Faculty of Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering at TU Graz, Austria
- 2019-2021 · Postdoc, Computer Science Department, Technion, Haifa, Israel
- 2018-2019 · Postdoc, Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Germany
- 2014-2018 · PhD Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Germany
- 2014 · MSc in Mathematics, RWTH Aachen, Germany
- 2013 · BSc in Mathematics, RWTH Aachen, Germany (1 year stay at National Univerity of Singapore)
- 2011 · BSc in Computer Science, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Academic Service
- PC member: STOC 2026, ESA 2026, DISC 2025, PODC 2025, SSS 2025, DISC 2024, ICALP 2024, SAND 2024, ICDCS 2024, SIROCCO 2024, ICDCN 2024, PODC 2023, ICDCIT 2023, DISC 2022, IEEE SECON 2022, IEEE SECON 2021, ICDCS 2021, SPAA 2020, ICDCN 2020, SPAA 2020,
- Steering Committee: OPODIS, DISC
- Workshop-chair DISC 2025, DISC 2024, DISC 2023, DISC 2022
- Program-chair: ADGA 2024
- (Sub)-Reviewer: STOC, FOCS, SODA, ICALP, PODC, DISC, ESA, Algorithmica, SICOMP, JCSS, Distributed Computing, ...
- Co-organizer of BDA@PODC 2024, BDA@PODC 2023, DARE@PODC 2022, WOLA 2021, DISC 2020 HALG 2020, AlgPiE by IGAFIT 2019
Visitors
- Saku Peltonen (June 2022)
- Leo Wennmann (March 2025)
- Joakim Blikstad (April 2025)
- Yuval Gil (April 2025)
- Leo Wennmann (September 2025)
- Michal Dory (Oktober 2025)
Recent Teaching:
- Data Structures and Algorithms, Summer 2026,
- Distributed Algorithms, Summer 2026,
- Data Structures and Algorithms II, Fall 2025,
- Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Fall 2025,
- Seminar on Derandomization, Fall 2025,
- Data Structures and Algorithms I, Summer 2025,
- Distributed Algorithms, Summer 2025,
- Data Structures and Algorithms II, Fall 2024,
- Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Fall 2024,
- Distributed Algorithms, Summer 2024,
- Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Fall 2023,
- Distributed Algorithms, Summer 2023,
- Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Fall 2022,
- Distributed Algorithms, Summer 2022,
- Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Fall 2021,
- Distributed Graph Coloring, Fall 2019,
- TCS Bridging Course (Fall 18),
- Seminar Distributed Computing (Fall 18)
- TCS Bridging Course (Fall 17)
- TCS Bridging Course (Spring 17)
- Algorithm Theory (Fall 16)
- TCS Bridging Course (Fall 16)
- Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen (Spring 16)
- Seminar Distributed Computing (Spring 16)
- Algorithm Theory (Fall 15)
- Seminar Theory of Computation (Fall 15)
- Distributed Systems (Spring 15)
- Seminar Distributed Algorithms (Spring 15)
- Algorithm Theory (Fall 14)
- Seminar Theory of (Distributed) Computing (Fall 14)
Scholarships and Awards:
- 2020 Principles of Distributed Computing Doctoral Dissertation Award (jointly sponsored by ACM and EACTS)
- Wolfgang-Gentner-Nachwuchsförderpreis 2019
- GI Dissertationspreis 2018
- Best Paper Award: SIROCCO 2016, DISC 2016, DISC 2017
- Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
- Dean's List Mathematics, RWTH Aachen
- Dean's List Computer Science, RWTH Aachen
- Schöneborn-Preis 2013
- NRW Stipendium, Deutschlandstipendium