Curriculum Vitae
Business Address
Algorithms group
Institute for Operating Systems and Computer Networks
TU Braunschweig
Mühlenpfordtstraße 23
38106 Braunschweig
Phone: +49 531 391 3113
Mail: scheffer@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
Academic Education
- 06/19
- Habilitation with venia legendi computer science
TU Braunschweig
Title of the thesis: Continuously Coordinating Geometric Degrees of Freedom: New Aspects and Approaches
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Sándor P. Fekete
- 07/14
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Dr. rer nat.
WWU Münster
Title of the thesis: Approximation Algorithms for Geometrical Distance Problems that are not solvable exactly
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Jan Vahrenhold
Second reviewer: Prof. Dr. Jörg-Rüdiger Sack
Grading: summa cum laude - 04/12-07/14
- Ph.D. student at the WWU Münster
Group: Effiziente Algorithmen und Algorithm Engineering
headed by Prof. Dr. Jan Vahrenhold - 02/11-03/12
- Ph.D. student at the TU Dortmund
Group: Grundlagen und Vermittlungder Informatik
headed by Prof. Dr. Jan Vahrenhold - 06/10
- Diploma in Computer Science, Dipl.-Inf.
TU Dortmund
Title of the thesis: Methoden zur Rekonstruktion zweidimensionaler Flächen im R^3
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Jan Vahrenhold
Subsidiary subject: mathematics - 08/05-06/10
- Undergraduate Studies in Computer Science and Mathematics
TU Dortmund
Awards
- 01/15
- Ph.D award of the WWU Münster 2014
Professional Career
- since 02/16
- Faculty member (akad. Rat) at the TU Braunschweig
Group: Algorithms
headed by Prof. Dr. Sándor Fekete - 11/14-01/16
- Postdoctoral associate at the TU Braunschweig
Group: Algorithms
headed by Prof. Dr. Sándor Fekete - 08/14-10/14
- Postdoctoral associate at the WWU Münster
Group: Effiziente Algorihmen und Algorithm Engineering
headed by Prof. Dr. Jan Vahrenhold - 04/12-07/14
- Research assistant at the WWU Münster
Group: Effiziente Algorihmen und Algorithm Engineering
headed by Prof. Dr. Jan Vahrenhold - 02/11-03/12
- Research assistant at the TU Dortmund
Group: Grundlagen und Vermittlung der Informatik
headed by Prof. Dr. Jan Vahrenhold
Research Stays
- 09/14
- Carleton University, Canada
School of Computer Science
Group of Prof. Dr. Jörg-Rüdiger Sack
Supported by DAAD - 03/14-04/14
- Carleton University, Canada
School of Computer Science
Group of Prof. Dr. Jörg-Rüdiger Sack
Supported by DAAD - 09/12
- Carleton University, Canada
School of Computer Science
Group of Prof. Dr. Jörg-Rüdiger Sack
Reviewing Activities
I have been reviewer for the following Journals and Conferences:
- Computational Geometry: Tnheory and Applications
- Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU)
- European Symposium of Algorithms (ESA)
- European Workshop on Computational Geometry (EuroCG)
- International Colloqium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP)
- International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC)
- International Symposium of Computational Geometry (SoCG)
- Journal of Computational Geometry (JoCG)
- Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision (JMIV)
- Pattern Recognition
- Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT)
- Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS)
- Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC)
Revieweing activities for research funding organizations:
- The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)