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											</span></p></div></div><div class="col-xs-12 col-md-4 panel panel-light-blue panel-condensed equal-height"><div class="panel-body"><h2 class="panel-subheading text-uppercase no-top-margin">Themes:</h2><ul class="list-comma-separated"><li><a href="/research/algorithms" class="panel-link"><span itemprop="affiliation">Algorithms and Complexity Theory</span></a></li><li><a href="/research/verification" class="panel-link"><span itemprop="affiliation">Automated Verification</span></a></li></ul></div></div></div></div><h2>Interests</h2><p>My core research is in <strong>algorithmic graph theory</strong>, <strong>descriptive complexity theory</strong>, and in <strong>software verification</strong>. I have further publications and current projects in <strong>automata theory</strong> and at the intersection of <strong>machine learning</strong> and <strong>biomedicine</strong>.</p>
<p>With a background in mathematics, computer science, and bioinformatics, I am particularly interested in finding applications of mathematical concepts in fields like artificial intelligence, biochemical engineering, and software verification.</p><h2>Biography</h2><P>I obtained my PhD from RWTH Aachen University. For my work on combinatorial and logical approaches to graph comparison, I received the Ackermann Award 2021, the EACSL Outstanding Dissertation Award for Logic in Computer Science. After my PhD studies, I was a postdoctoral researcher at RWTH Aachen University and at the University of Warsaw, as well as a Research Group Leader at Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. I hold Bachelor's degrees in Bioinformatics and Mathematics and a Master's degree in Mathematics from Goethe University Frankfurt. I have also completed a BSc and an MEd degree in Mathematics and Spanish.</P>
<P>In November 2022, I joined the University of Oxford as the recipient of a Glasstone Fellowship in Computer Science and as a Junior Research Fellow in Computer Science with Jesus College. Since September 2024, I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science in Oxford and the first Tutorial Fellow in Computer Science at Exeter College.</P>
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