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- Visit the webpage of my group!
- Together with Annabelle McIver, I co-chair the Track B of STACS 2026. Please submit there your best papers!
- Together with Paweł Gawrychowski, Cristian Riveros, and Tatiana Starikovskaya, I organize a Dagstuhl Seminar: Stringology Meets Database Theory.
- STACS 2027 will take place in Göttingen.
- New DFG-grant: String Constraint Solving: Combinatorial, Algorithmic, and Language-Theoretic Approaches.
- DFG funding in the Heisenberg-programme extended until 2027. Project: Combinatorial String Solving.
- Upcoming invited talk (online, December 9th, 2025) in the One World Combinatorics on Words Seminar.
- Links to preprints of my most recent papers are available on DBLP.
- Recent Program Committee memberships: Track B of STACS 2026 (co-chair), DLT 2025 (co-chair), CiE 2025.
- CiE 2026 will take place in Trier, Germany.
- 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 relatively updated list of my publications is available on DBLP. Here you can find a relatively up to date list of my co-authors.
- Invited speaker at the 12th International Workshop on Non-Classical Models of Automata and Applications NCMA 2022; 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).
- Conferences organized in Göttingen: Theorietag 2024: Automaten und Formale Sprachen, Logik in der Informatik und Deduktionssysteme (fall of 2024), DLT 2024 (summer of 2024), NCMA 2024 (summer of 2024), CSL 2022 (online, winter of 2022).
- Algorithms on Strings - BSc/MSc lecture, University of Göttingen, Winter Semester.
- Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen - BSc lecture, University of Göttingen, Winter Semester.
- Seminar Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen - Seminar, University of Göttingen, Winter Semester.
- Advanced Topics on Algorithms - BSc/MSc lecture, University of Göttingen, Summer Semester.
- Theoretische Informatik - BSc lecture, University of Göttingen, Summer Semester.
- Seminar Theoretische Informatik - Seminar, University of Göttingen, Summer Semester.
- My group offers supervision for BSc and MSc theses on theoretical computer science topics, but also on applied topics connected to our research areas.
- Supervised PhDs: Maria Kosche (Summa cum Laude, 2023), Stefan Siemer (Summa cum Laude, 2024), Tore Koß (Summa cum Laude, 2024). See also my mathematics genealogy.
- I was awarded the Lehrpreis 2020 (Teaching Award) by the CS-students from Göttingen!
- 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 (Summa cum Laude) in December 2007.
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