- Born 1965
- June 1993: Ph.D. (Dr.rer.nat.) in Computer Science, University of Saarbrücken
- June 1993 - September 1999: Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Saarbrücken
- September 1994 - August 1995: Postdoc at the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, California, USA
- October 1999 - July 2001: Associate Professor (C3) of Computer Science at the University of Dortmund
- August 2001- May 2009: Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Freiburg
- June 2009- present: Full Professor of Computer Science at the Humboldt University, Berlin
- Short term appointments/visits: The University of Tokyo (1993); BRICS (1996); FU Berlin (1998); Univ. of Paderborn (1998/99); Carnegie Mellon University (2006).
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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.
Otto Hahn Medal (1994) of the Max Planck Society.
Member of Leopoldina, German National Academy of Sciences
Fellow of the GI, German Association for Computer Sceince
- Full academic cv
