I am a professor at the Department of Computer Science at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. My research aims at exploring the fundamental properties and limits of algorithmic solutions to optimization and decision problems.

I studied mathematics and computer science at the University of Paderborn, where I also finished my Ph.D. in 2014 on energy-efficient machine scheduling. Afterward, I spent almost three years abroad as a postdoc at the University of Pittsburgh in the US (workign on energy-efficient algorithms) and as a postdoc at the Simon Fraser University in Greater Vancouver in Canada (working on distributed and randomized algorithms as well as on the analysis of stochastic processes). I then moved to the Department of Informatics at the University of Hamburg as as an assistant professor and head of the research group Theory of Efficient Algorithms. In 2025, I joined the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences as professor for theoretical computer science.