News:

• Visit the webpage of my group!
• Visit the webpage of CSL 2022, which was successfully organized, as an online event, by my group in the winter of 2022.
• Invited speaker at the 12th International Workshop on Non-Classical Models of Automata and Applications NCMA 2022. In the last few years, I was invited speaker at: the Workshop on Theory and Practice of String Solving TPSS 2021, affiliated to CAV 2021; the workshop Romanian Algorithms Days 2021; the 5th Logic Mentoring Workshop, LMW 2020 (see video and slides); WORDS 2019 (link to the paper on which my talk was based: Matching Patterns with Variables).
• I was awarded the Lehrpreis 2020 (Teaching Award) by the CS-students from Göttingen!
• Links to preprints of my most recent papers are available on DBLP.
• Recent Program Committee memberships: CSL 2022 (co-chair), CiE 2022, CPM 2022, IWOCA 2022.
• CiE 2023 will take place in Batumi, Georgia.
• DFG funded grant on combinatorics of word morphisms.

Research:

• Interests: String Algorithms and Combinatorics, String Solving, Efficient Algorithms and Data Structures, Automata Theory and Formal Languages, Computability and Complexity Theory, Logic in Computer Science.
• A list of publications (slightly outdated) is available at this link: Papers. Here you can find a relatively up to date list of my co-authors.
• An offline list of my publications (slightly outdated) split on categories (journals, conferences, etc.) is available at this link: List of Publications.
• An offline list of my talks (slightly outdated) is available at this link: List of Talks.
• An account (slightly outdated) of my scientific service is available at this link: Service.

Currently teaching:

• Algorithms on Strings - BSc/MSc lecture, University of Göttingen, Winter Semester 2022/2023.
• Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen - BSc lecture, University of Göttingen, Winter Semester 2022/2023.
• Seminar Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen - Seminar, University of Göttingen, Winter Semester 2022/2023.
• Advanced Topics on Algorithms - BSc/MSc lecture, University of Göttingen, Summer Semester 2022.
• Informatik I - BSc lecture, University of Göttingen, Summer Semester 2022.

Curriculum Vitae:

• University of Göttingen, 2022 - present: W3-Professor (funded by the Heisenberg programme of the DFG) for Theoretical Computer Science.
• University of Göttingen, 2019 - 2022: W2-Professor for Fundamentals of Computer Science.
• Kiel University, 2011 - 2019: Researcher (Principal Investigator), 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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