- Co-editor in chief of the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications (JGAA)
- Chair of the steering committee of the International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD) (2024-2026)
- Program committees of multiple international conferences including ALENEX, BDVA, BigVis, CG:MM, COCOON, DIAGRAMS, ESA, EuroCG, EuroVis STAR, FAW, GD, GraphViP, ICCG, IISA, IVAPP, IWOCA, PacificVis, SKILL, SMW, WADS, WALCOM
Research Experience
- 2020 - present: Full Professor at TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
- 2017-2020: Associate Professor at TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
- 2015-2017: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
- 2010-2015: Head of Young Investigator Group at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- 2010: Postdoctoral researcher (DFG fellowship) at UC Irvine, California, USA
Education
- 2005-2009: Dr. rer. nat. at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- 2002-2003: Visiting student and DAAD scholar at McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- 1999-2005: Studies of Computer Science at Universität Karlsruhe, Germany
Background
- Research Interests: graph algorithms, particularly for graph drawing and network visualization; computational geometry, especially algorithms for cartography and geovisualization; algorithm engineering and combinatorial optimization
- Position: Full Professor at TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
- Field: Computer Science
Miscellany
- Bachelor with Honors program coordinator
- Guest editor of the special issue 'Experimental Aspects of Computational Geometry' in Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications
- Associate guest editor of the special issue 'Perception in Network Visualization' in the Journal of Perceptual Imaging
- Program co-chair of the Computational Geometry Media Exposition at CG Week 2025
- Program co-chair of IEEE Pacific Vis (Conference Track) 2024
- Program co-chair of IEEE Pacific Vis (VisNotes) 2021