Bio

Education, experience, awards.

Education

2016 – 2021
Ph.D. in Mathematics, Technische Universität Berlin summa cum laude. Dissertation: Faster algorithms for Steiner tree and related problems — from theory to practice.
2013 – 2015
M.Sc. in Mathematics, Technische Universität Berlin

Experience

2024 – now
Senior Optimization Developer, IVU Traffic Technologies
2023 – 2024
Senior Optimization Engineer, Optibus
2021 – 2023
Postdoctoral Researcher, Zuse Institute Berlin
2019 – now
Optimization Software Engineer, I²DAMO GmbH (part-time)
2016 – 2021
Scientific Assistant, Technische Universität Berlin
2013 – 2015
Student Assistant, Zuse Institute Berlin

Awards & competitions

current
Fastest non-commercial solver, Mittelmann MIPfeas benchmark
ongoing
First place, Mittelmann QUBO benchmark (three years running)
2023
Outstanding Paper of the Year, Mathematical Programming Computation
2022
EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award
2022
GOR Doctoral Dissertation Award
2022
INFORMS Dantzig Dissertation Award finalist
2022
Second place, Graph500 shortest path benchmark
2018
PACE Challenge — 1st (Track B), 2nd (Track C), 3rd (Track A)