I am an associate professor at the algorithms group of the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) in Odense.
From 2022 to 2024, I was an assistant professor in Maastricht University (Netherlands). Between 2019 and 2021, I was a postdoc researcher in Ola Svensson’s group at EPFL, Lausanne (Switzerland). Before that I have received my Ph.D. in computer science at CAU, Kiel (Germany) where I was advised by Klaus Jansen. I am alumni of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation). I will serve or have served in the program committees of MAPSP’26 (chair), SODA’26, STACS’25, MAPSP’24, ICALP’24, APPROX’23, SODA’23, and WAOA’20. I am grateful to the NWO for funding my Open Competition M1 project ``Twilight Zone of Efficiency: Optimality of Quasi-Polynomial Time Algorithms”.
Supervision
In my personal life, I’m married and I have two dogs and a cat. Some of my hobbies can be seen in the gallery below.
You can find my CV here.
I enjoy cooking and trying out new recipes
Started my own sourdough (Friedel) during lockdown and still going strong!
What I learned from the French (instead of the language).
I am very grateful for receiving the award for the PhD of the year by the 'Förderverein der TF' of Kiel University
My wife Faiza and I have married in fall 2019.
I'm a big fan of winter sports, in particular, of snowboarding.
One of my hobbies is to brew my own beer.
Doing dog things on Gornergrat.
Superseded by ``A Quasi-Polynomial Approximation for the Restricted Assignment Problem''
| Operating Systems (SDU) | Spring'25 | Lecturer |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced Algorithms (Maastricht) | Spring'24 | Coordinator / Tutor |
| Algorithms and Optimisation (Maastricht) | Fall'23 | Coordinator / Tutor |
| Supply Chain Operations Management (Maastricht) | Fall'23 | Tutor |
| Operations Management (Maastricht) | Fall'23 | Coordinator / Tutor |
| Quantitative Business (Maastricht) | Spring'23 | Tutor |
| Randomized Algorithms (LNMB) | Spring'23 | Lecturer |
| Advanced Algorithms (Maastricht) | Spring'23 | Coordinator / Tutor |
| Algorithms and Optimisation (Maastricht) | Fall'22 | Coordinator / Tutor |
| Supply Chain Operations Management (Maastricht) | Fall'22 | Tutor |
| Management of Operations and Product Development (Maastricht) | Spring'22 | Coordinator / Tutor |
| Advanced Algorithms (Maastricht) | Spring'22 | Coordinator / Tutor |
| Algorithms (EPFL) | Fall'21 | Teaching Assistant |
| Approximation Algorithms (Kiel) | Summer'19 | Teaching Assistant |
| Introduction to Operations Research (Kiel) | Winter'18/19 | Teaching Assistant |
| Efficient Algorithms (Kiel) | Summer'18 | Teaching Assistant |
| Introduction to Operations Research (Kiel) | Winter'17/18 | Teaching Assistant |
| Efficient Algorithms (Kiel) | Summer'17 | Teaching Assistant |
| Introduction to Operations Research (Kiel) | Winter'16/17 | Teaching Assistant |
| Efficient Algorithms (Kiel) | Summer'16 | Teaching Assistant |
| Theoretical Computer Science (Kiel) | Winter'13/14 | Teaching Assistant |
| Software Engineering (Kiel) | Winter'12/13 | Teaching Assistant |
| Algorithms and Data Structures (Kiel) | Summer'12 | Teaching Assistant |