June 1993: Ph.D. (Dr.rer.nat.) in Computer Science, Saarland University and Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken
Employment
June 1993 - September 1999: Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken
September 1994 - August 1995: Postdoc at the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, California, USA
October 1999 - July 2001: Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Dortmund
August 2001- May 2009: Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Freiburg
June 2009 - November 2013: Full Professor of Computer Science at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
November 2013 - present: Full Professor of Computer Science and Liesel Beckmann Distinguished Professor at the Technical University of Munich
Short Term Appointments / Visiting Professorships
The University of Tokyo (1993), BRICS (1996), FU Berlin (1998), Univ. of Paderborn (1998/99), Carnegie Mellon University (2006), Cornell University (2012)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2008) the highest honour awarded in German research. It includes financial support of 2.5 Mio. Euros to be invested into research.
Member of Leopoldina, German National Academy of Sciences
