2025Best Paper Award at CPM

for the work Minimal Generators in Optimal Time

2023Best Paper Award at SPIRE

for the work New Advances in Rightmost Lempel-Ziv

2019FTI Award for the Best Computer Science Master’s Thesis in Germany

for the work Efficient Computation of Nearest Smaller Suffixes

Program Committee Membership

• 2026: ALENEX, CPM, SPIRE
• 2025: WABI, SPIRE, SeqBIM
• 2024: ESA (Track B), WABI, SPIRE

Guest Editor of Topical Collection in Theory of Computing Systems
Advances in String Processing and Information Retrieval 2025

Invited Lecturer at CPM Summer School 2025
Aproximate Pattern Matching 101

Publications are listed here

ERCIM Fellow 

CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Apr. 2026 - Mar. 2027

Postdoctoral Researcher

ENS Paris, France, Département d'Informatique

Apr. 2024 - Mar. 2026

Research Associate

TU Dortmund, Germany, Chair of Algorithm Engineering

Independent Teaching:

• Class Introduction to Programming (100 undergraduate students)
• Project group on space-efficient data structures (8 graduate students)
• Co-supervision of two Bachelor’s and four Master’s theses in algorithms

Aug. 2019 - Mar. 2024

Visiting Researcher

Université Gustave Eiffel, Marne-la-Vallée, France, Laboratoire d'Informatique Gaspard-Monge

Hosted by Maxime Crochemore under a PROCOPE Mobility Scholarship

Oct. 2021 - Nov. 2021

Student Assistant / Research Assistant

TU Dortmund, Germany, Chair of Algorithm Engineering (from Jan. 2018)

TU Dortmund, Germany, Chair of Dienstleistungsinformatik (until Dec. 2017)

Apr. 2016 - Jul. 2019