Curriculum Vitae

CV in reverse chronological order. 

• Since 3.2023: PI of the ERC Synergy Grant "POCOCOP" (jointly with Libor Barto, Charles University Prague, and Michael Pinsker, TU Wien)
• Consolidator Grant of the ERC for the project "CSP-Infinity'' (2016-2021).
• Since August 2014: Professor for Algebra and Discrete Structures (Succession Prof. Pöschel) at TU Dresden.
• Starting Grant of the ERC for the project "Constraint Satisfaction Problems: Algorithms and Complexity'' (2011).
• 2008-2014: Chargé de Recherche of the CNRS at Ecole Polytechnique.
• 2005-2007: Postdoc in the DFG research group "Algorithms, Structure, Randomness'' and researcher at the Institute of Algorithms and Complexity at HU Berlin.
• 2004: PhD at Humboldt-University Berlin (supervision: Prof. Dr. Hans Jürgen Prömel) with a scholarship of the DFG research training group "Combinatorics, Geometry, and Computation''. 
• 2001: Diploma in Computer Science (minor: mathematics) at Saarland University.

I will not use airplanes any more, neither privately nor for work -- they contribute significantly to global warming. Climate change causes gigantic damages (most likely they will become irreversible) and costs. These costs are by far more important than the benefits of personal scientific exchange, which can often be replaced by electronic communication. If you absolutely have to fly, buy a carbon offset (ask the institution that finances your flight to pay for that).