Scientific activities
- 2012 Google Focused research Award
- 2011 KIT Research Professor
- 2008 Promotion as GI-Fellow (Gesellschaft für Informatik)
- since 2007 Vice president of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- DFG-Senate Committee on Strategic Planning
- Selection Committee Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize
- Joint Committee for the Sino-German Center for Research Promotion Beijing
- 2000 - 2007 Reviewer for theoretical computer science and from 2004 Speaker of the evaluation committee for computer science at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- since 2000 Member of the selection committee for the Best Dissertation Award of the GI
- 2001 - 2009 Chairperson
- 2004 - 2010 Member of the Standing Committee for Physical and Engineering Sciences (PESC) of the European Science Foundation (ESF), since 2008 member of the core group
- 2002 - 2005 Member of the selection committee for DAAD-scholarships
- since 2012 Member of the Committee for the Allocation of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Awards
- since 2012 Member of the selection committee for research scholarships within the Elite Network of Bavaria
- since 2012 Member and Chair of the Advisory Committee for “Fast Track: Excellence and Leadership Skills for Outstanding Women in Science” of the Robert Bosch Foundation
- since 2012 Member of the Board of Supervisors of the Forschungszentrum Informatik
- 2010 - 2013 Member of the Helmholtz Think Tank
- 2009 - 2012 Member of the Advisory Board of the Kompetenzzentrum Bibliometrie, iFQ
- 2009/2010 Member of the Working Group IV of the Innovationsrat Baden-Württemberg
- since 2004 Member and speaker of the Leibniz Center for Informatics Schloss Dagstuhl Scientific Advisory Board
- since 2003 Member of the Advisory Board of Interdisciplinary Information Sciences
- 2001 - 2005 Member of the EATCS Council (European Association for Theoretical Computer Science)
- 2002 - 2004 Member of the Steering Committee of the GI
- 1997 - 2004 Member of the executive GI - Professor Advisory Board (GIBU), 2000 - 2004 speaker of the board
- Editor-in-Chief of JDA Journal of Discrete Algorithms
- Editorial board of JGAA Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications
- Editorial board of CGTA Computational Geometry: theory and applications
- Editorial board of EPTCS Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
- Editorial board of “Leitfäden der Informatik”, B. G. Teubner
- Editor-in-Chief of OASIcs: OpenAccess Series in Informatics
- Editorial Advisory Board of the Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining, Springer-Verlag
- since 2008 Member of the Steering Committee of the Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX)
- 2005 - 2008 Member of the Steering Committee of the International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD)
- since 2001 Member of the Steering Committee of the Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modeling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS)
- since 2000 Member of the Steering Committee of the International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG)
- 1999 - 2003 Member of the Steering Committee of the European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA), 2001 - 2003 chair of the committee
- 2011/2012 Co-Organizer of 10th DIMACS Implementation Challenge - Graph Partitioning and Graph Clustering, workshop took place at Georgia Tech February 13-14, 2012
- 2008 Co-Organizer of ALGO 2008 (ESA, WABI, WAOA, ATMOS)
- 2006 Co-Organizer of the 14th International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD'2006)
- 2000 Organizer of the 26th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG'2000)
- 2008 PC Co-Chair of the 10th Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX'2008)
- 2006 PC Co-Chair of the 14th International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD'2006)
- 2000 PC Co-Chair of the 4th Workshop on Algorithm Engineering (WAE'2000)
- PC member of WADS'93, ISAAC'95, STACS'97, WG'97, WG'98,GD'98, WG'99, OR'99, WG'00, GD'00, WAE'00, ALENEX'01, ESA'01, ICALP'01, ATMOS'01, WADS'01, WG'02, ATMOS'02, WADS'03, GD'03, WG'03, WG'04, WEA'05, ICALP'05, SOFSEM'06, WG'06, GD'06, GD'07, ISAAC'07, ALENEX'08, ALGOSENSORS'08, WG'08, WEA'08, ATMOS'08, WAW'09, ICALP'09, SEA'2010, IWOCA'2010, ASONAM'2010, Pacific Visualization 2011, ICALP'2011, ASONAM'2011, WG'2011, ALGOSENSORS'2011, GD'2011, ISAAC'2011, COCOON'2012, SODA'2013
Co-Organizer of Dagstuhl Seminars on “Combinatorial Methods for Integrated Circuit Design” (1993), “Graph Algorithms and Applications (1996, 1998), “Link Analysis and Visualization” (2001), “Algorithmic Aspects of Large and Complex Networks” (2001, 2003, 2005), Data Structures (2004, 2006), “Algorithmic Methods for Railway Optimization” (2004), Algorithm Engineering (2013)
- 2005 Co-Organizer of the GI-Dagstuhl-Seminar Algorithms for Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks, together with Roger Wattenhofer
- 1999 Co-Organizer of the GI-Dagstuhl-Seminars Drawing Graphs, together with Michael Kaufmann
- 2008 - 2013 Joint initiator of the DFG program 1307 "Algorithm Engineering", Coordinator Prof. Dr. Peter Sanders
- since 2006 Member and deputy speaker of the DFG-Research Training Group "Self-organizing Sensor-Actuator-Networks"
- 2001 - 2008 Joint initiator and Coordinator of the DFG program 1126 "Algorithmics of Large and Complex Networks"
- 2000 - 2004 Joint initiator and coordinator of the EU Research Training Network AMORE: Algorithmic Methods for Optimizing the Railways in Europe
- Responsibilities within Universität Karlsruhe (TH) resp. KIT
- since 2011 Member of the KIT Supervisory Board
- since 2011 - Member of the KIT Strategy and Research Board
- 2010 - 2012 Member of the KIT working group for the “Excellence Initiative”
- since 2007 Deputy speaker of the KIT-Focus COMMputation
- 2007 - 2009 Speaker of the Competence Area Information, Communication and Organisation (ICO) and of the ICO-Field “Algorithm and Software Engineering”
- 2006 - 2011 Member of the academic senate of the Universität Karlsruhe (TH) resp. Member of the KIT-Senate
- 2006 - 2009 Member of the Council for the Promotion of Research and Young Scientists (CRYS)
- 2004 - 2007 Vice dean Fakultät für Informatik