News:

• Invited speaker at WORDS 2019. Talk: Matching Patterns with Variables.
• Papers accepted at RP 2019 (paper), MFCS 2019 (paper), DLT 2019 (paper), ICALP 2019 - Track B (paper), STACS 2019 (paper).
• Pattern Matching with Variables: Efficient Algorithms and Complexity Results, co-authored with Henning Fernau, Robert Mercas, and Markus Schmid (extended version of our paper from STACS 2015), accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Computation Theory (TOCT).
• Rollercoasters: Long Sequences without Short Runs, co-authored with Therese Biedl, Ahmad Biniaz, Robert Cummings, Anna Lubiw, Dirk Nowotka, and Jeffrey Shallit (extended version of our paper from ICALP 2018), accepted for publication in SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics.
• Program Committee member of CiE 2020.
• CiE 2020 will take place in Salerno, between June 29 and July 3, 2020.
• DFG funded grant on combinatorics of word morphisms.

Research:

• Interests: String Algorithms and Combinatorics, Efficient Algorithms and Data Structures, Automata Theory and Formal Languages, Computability and Complexity Theory, Logic in Computer Science.
• An updated list of publications is available at this link: Papers. I also maintain a list of my co-authors.
• An offline list of my publications split on categories (journals, conferences, etc.) is available at this link: List of Publications.
• An offline list of my talks is available at this link: List of Talks.
• An updated account of my scientific service is available at this link: Service.

Teaching:

• Algorithms on Strings - BSc/MSc lecture, University of Göttingen, Winter Semester 2019/2020.
• Informatik III - BSc lecture, University of Göttingen, Winter Semester 2019/2020.
• Algorithms on Strings - MSc lecture, Kiel University, Winter Semester 2018/2019
• Advanced Topics on Algorithms - MSc lecture, Kiel University, Summer Semester 2019.

Curriculum Vitae:

• University of Göttingen, starting October 2019: W2-Professor for Fundamentals of Computer Science.
• Kiel University, 2011 - present: Researcher, DFG funded.
• University of Magdeburg, 2009 - 2011: Alexander von Humboldt fellow.
• University of Bucharest, 2004 - 2009: Faculty member; PhD in December 2007.

      Complete Resume (including a list of obtained funding).




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