December 2007:
Offers for professorships (W2) at RWTH Aachen (mathematics) and TU Dortmund (computer science).
The MPI upgrades my position to a permanent one. I decline
the offers from Aachen and Dortmund.
April 2005 - present:
Senior researcher (W2) at the Max-Planck-Institut für
Informatik, Saarbrücken.
Coordinator of the research area "foundations and discrete mathematics".
February - March 2005:
Research stay at the Rényi Institute of the Hungarian
Academy of Science
March - June 2004:
Research stay with Joel Spencer, New York University
May 1998 - December 2000:
PhD student in the graduate school "Efficient Algorithms and
Multiscale Methods" at the
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.
PhD (Doktor rer. nat.) in mathematics, December 2000.
Thesis: Multi-Color Discrepancies.
October 1992 - May 1998:
Student of mathematics, computer science and economics at the
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.
Diploma in mathematics, May 1998.