Scientific activities

2008 Promotion as GI-Fellow (Gesellschaft für Informatik)

2007 - Vice president of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

2001 - Chairperson of the selection committee for the Best Dissertation Award of the GI

2004 - Member of the Standing Committee for Physical and Engineering Sciences (PESC) of the European Science Foundation (ESF), since 2008 member of the core group

2000 - 2007 Reviewer for theoretical computer science and from 2004 chair of the evaluation committee for computer science at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

2002 - 2005 Member of the selection committee for DAAD-scholarships

2009 - Member of the Advisory Board of the Kompetenzzentrum Bibliometrie, iFQ

2009 - Member of the Working Group IV of the Innovationsrat Baden-Württemberg

2004 - Member and speaker of the Leibniz Center for Informatics Schloss Dagstuhl Scientific Advisory Board

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 “Leitfäden der Informatik”, B. G. Teubner

2005 - 2008 Member of the Steering Committee of the International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD)

2001 - Member of the Steering Committee of the Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modeling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS)

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

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)

2002 PC Chair of the 2nd Workshop on Algorithmic Methods and Models for Optimization of Railways (ATMOS'2002)

2000 PC Chair of the 26th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG'2000)

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

1993 - 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)

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 - Joint initiator of the DFG program 1307 "Algorithm Engineering", Coordinator Prof. Dr. Peter Sanders

2006 - Member and deputy speaker of the DFG-Research Training Group "Self-organizing Sensor-Actuator-Networks"

2001 - 2008 Joint initiator and speaker 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 KIT