Dorothea Wagner

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Dorothea Wagner (born 1957) is a German computer scientist, known for her research in graph drawing, route planning, and social network analysis. [1] She heads the Institute of Theoretical Informatics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. [2]

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Biography

Wagner did her undergraduate studies at RWTH Aachen University, graduating in 1983, and then continued at RWTH Aachen for her graduate studies, earning a Ph.D. in 1986 under the supervision of Rolf Möhring and Walter Oberschelp. [3] [4] She then earned her habilitation at Technische Universität Berlin in 1992. She stayed at TU Berlin as an assistant professor, also taking a temporary position at the University of Halle-Wittenberg in 1993, before becoming a full professor at the University of Konstanz in 1994. In 2003, she moved to Karlsruhe. [3]

Since 2007 she is vice president of the German Research Foundation (DFG). [5] [6] She is one of five editors-in-chief of the Journal of Discrete Algorithms, published by Elsevier, [7] and editor-in-chief of the OpenAccess Series in Informatics book series published by Schloss Dagstuhl. [8] She has been program committee chair or co-chair of the 10th Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX'2008), 14th International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD'2006), 2nd Workshop on Algorithmic Methods and Models for Optimization of Railways (ATMOS'2002), 26th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG'2000), and 4th Workshop on Algorithm Engineering (WAE'2000), and been on the editorial boards and program committees of many more computer science journals and conferences. [5]

In 2019 Wagner was one of three candidates for the position as president of the DFG; after a year-long selection process, the position eventually went to Katja Becker. [9]

Awards and honors

In 2008 she was elected as a fellow of the Gesellschaft für Informatik. [1] In 2012 she received a Google Focused Research Award together with Hannah Bast and Peter Sanders for the project “Next-Generation Route Planning“. [10] She is a member of the Academia Europaea. [11] In 2019 she was awarded the Konrad Zuse Medal. [12]

Selected publications

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References

  1. 1 2 GI-Fellow citation Archived 2011-08-13 at the Wayback Machine , retrieved 2012-03-09.
  2. ↑ Faculty profile, KIT, retrieved 2012-03-09.
  3. 1 2 Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2012-03-09.
  4. ↑ Dorothea Wagner at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. 1 2 Scientific activities Archived 2016-09-08 at the Wayback Machine , retrieved 2012-03-09.
  6. ↑ Zuber-Knost, Elisabeth (July 16, 2007), Karlsruher Professorin ist DFG-Vizepräsidentin (in German), Informationsdienst Wissenschaft .
  7. ↑ Journal of Discrete Algorithms home page, retrieved 2012-03-09.
  8. ↑ OASIcs editorial board, retrieved 2012-03-09.
  9. ↑ Tilmann Warnecke (July 1, 2019), Präsidentenwahl: Dreikampf um die DFG-Spitze Der Tagesspiegel .
  10. ↑ Google Focused Research Award citation, retrieved 2012-03-014
  11. ↑ Member profile: Dorothea Wagner, Academia Europaea , retrieved 2015-09-18.
  12. ↑ "Konrad-Zuse-Medaille: Dorothea Wagner erhält höchste Informatik-Auszeichnung", Gesellschaft für Informatik (in German), August 14, 2019.
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