Personal Information
Date of birth: July 28th, 1969; Nationality: German
Children: Maximilian Theodor (born June 2003), Justus Franz Bernhard (born July 2005), Raban (born April 2010)
Publications
Over 100 archived conference and journal papers, book contributions and books. See DBLP Entry
Research Experiences
University of Bremen, Researcher and Lecturer at TZI, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. Nov. 2008 – today.
Dortmund University of Technology, Researcher and Lecturer at Chair for Programming Systems
and Compiler Construction, Faculty of Computer Science. June 2008 – Nov. 2008.
Dortmund University of Technology, Junior Research Group Leader at Chair for Programming
Systems and Compiler Construction, Faculty of Computer Science. March 2003 – May 2008.
University of Freiburg, Assistant Professor at Chair for Algorithms and Data Structures, Institute for Computer Science. Nov. 1998 – Feb. 2003.
University of Freiburg, Research Assistant at Chair for Algorithms and Data Structures, Institute for Computer Science. Oct. 1998.
University of California Los Angeles, Visiting Researcher at Chair for Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science Department. Aug. - Sep. 1997.
University of Freiburg, Ph.D. Student in
Graduate Program Human and Machine Intelligence at Chair for Algorithms and Data Structures, Institute for Computer Science. April 1996 – Sep. 1998.
Education
Professorship. University of Bremen, April 2011. Evaluation Committee: Otthein Herzog, Kerstin Schill, Hans-Jörg Kreowski, Thomas Wagner, Daniel Kohlsdorf.
Postdoctoral Lecture Qualification. University of Freiburg, Feb. 2003. Evaluation Committee: Sven Koenig, Bernhard Nebel, Luc DeReadt. Graduated with Venia Legendi.
Ph.D. in Computer Science. University of Freiburg, Sep. 1998. Evaluation Committee:
Thomas Ottmann, Bernhard Nebel. Final grade: Sehr Gut.
Erasmus Exchange Year. University College Dublin, Ireland. June 1994. Average of Final Grades: 71,6%.
Diploma in Computer Science. Dortmund University of Technology. Dez. 1997. Evaluation Committee: Ingo Wegener, Martin Dietzfelbinger. Final grade: Auszeichnung.
High School Diploma. Friedenschule Muenster, June 1988. Science Group with Electives: Physics and Mathematics. Average of Final Grades: 1.4.
Military Service Air Force. Budel and Cuxhaven, July 1988 - Sep. 1989.
Scientific Teaching
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bremen.
- Supervisor of the project GGP++ (WS 2011/12 – SS 2012).
- Lecturer of the course Algorithm Theory (SS 2011).
- Lecturer of the course Action Planning and General Game Play (WS 2010/11).
- Lecturer of the course Algorithm Engineering (SS 2010).
- Supervisor of the seminar Game Theory (SS 2010).
- Supervisor of project FIDIUS (WS 2009/10 – SS 2011).
- Lecturer of the course Algorithm Engineering (SS 2009).
- Supervisor of the seminar Game Theory (SS 2009).
Faculty of Computer Science, Dortmund University of Technology.
- Lecturer of the course Game Playing (SS 2008).
- Lecturer of the course Advanced Search Algorithms (WS 2006/07).
- Supervisor of the seminar External Exploration (SS 2006).
- Lecturer of the course Artificial Intelligence (WS 2004/05, WS 2005/06).
- Lecturer of the course Directed Model Checking (SS 2005, SS 2007).
- Lecturer of the course Action Planning (SS 2004, WS 2007/2008).
- Lecturer of the course Heuristic Search (WS 2003/04).
- Supervisor of the project Bug-Finder (WS 2005/06 – SS 2006).
- Supervisor of the project Mod-Plan (WS 2004/05 – SS 2005).
- Supervisor of the project GPS-Route (SS 2004 – WS 2004/05).
Computer Science Department, University of Freiburg.
- Teaching Assistant of the course Computational Biology (SS 2002).
- Teaching Assistant of the course Parallel Algorithms and Applications (SS 2002).
- Teaching Assistant of the course Applied Computer Science (WS 2001/02).
- Teaching Assistant of the course Algorithm Theory (WS 1999/00).
- Teaching Assistant of the course Computational Geometry (SS 99).
- Teaching Assistant of the course Theory of Computation (WS 2000/01).
- Teaching Assistant of the course Data Structures and Algorithms (SS 1999, SS 2000).
- Teaching Assistant of the course Programming (WS 1998/99, WS 2000/01).
University of Cooperative Education, Berufsakademie Lörrach.
- Lecturer for the course Automata and Complexity Theory (WS 2001/02).
- Lecturer for the course Theoretical Computer Science (WS 1996/97, WS 1997/98).