About
me
I
am a professor of Computer Science at
the University of Vienna. I am working on
combinatorial algorithms and data structures and their applications. I received
a Ph.D. from Princeton University in
1993 and a honorary
doctorate from the Technical University of Dortmund in 2013.
Awards
·
Carus Medal of the German
Academy of Sciences Leopoldina 2019
·
Price for Science
by the City of Vienna
2018
·
SIGIR Test of
Time Award,
2017
·
ACM Fellow, 2016
·
Fellow
of the European Association of
Theoretical Computer Science, 2014
·
ERC Advanced
Grant,
2013 – 2019
·
Google
Research Award, 2011
·
European Young
Investigator Award
of the European Research Council,
2004 (precursor to the ERC Starting Grant)
·
Top 25 Women on
the Web Award,
2001
·
Best
Paper Award at the ACM Symposium on
Operating Systems Principles, 1997
·
NSF CAREER
Development Award
1995
Memberships and
Committees
·
Member
of the Editorial Board of the SIAM
Journal on Computing, since 2020
·
Member
of the Swiss Science Council, since
2020
·
Member
of the FOCS Test of Time Award Committee
of the IEEE Computer Society 2019
·
Member
of the Austrian Science Council,
since 2018
·
Program
Committee Chair of the 50th
Annual ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC), 2018
·
Member
of the Austrian Academy of Science,
since 2017
·
Member
of the Senate of the Helmholtz Association, 2017 – 2019
·
Editor
of the journal Theoretical Computer
Science, 2015 – 2018
·
Editor
of the journal Acta Informatica,
since 2015
·
Member
of the EC President's Science and
Technology Advisory Council, 2014.
·
Member
of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, since 2014.
·
Corresponding
member of the Austrian Academy of Science,
since 2014.
·
Member
of the Academia Europaea,
since 2013.
·
Editor
of the book series Monographs in
Theoretical Computer Science and of Texts
in Theoretical Computer Science, an EATCS Series, since 2012.
·
Member
of the EACTS Council, 2011 - 2019.
·
Member
of the IEEE von Neumann Medal Award
Committee, 2011 - 2014.
·
Member
of the ACM Kanellakis
Award Committee, 2010 - 2014, chair in 2012.
·
Member
of the EACTS Presburger
Award Committee, 2010 - 2013, chair in 2012.
·
Member
of the Junge Kurie of the Austrian Academy of Science, 2010 -
2014.
·
Member
of the Supervisory Board of the Technical University Munich, 2008 - 2015.