Laura Vargas Koch (born 29 June 1990) is a German former judoka and Olympic medalist [1] [2] and computer scientist and applied mathematician. [3] She is University Professor at RWTH Aachen University where she heads the chair of algorithmic game theory and discrete mathematics. [4]
Vargas Koch competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in the women's 70 kg division. She won a bronze medal by defeating María Bernabéu of Spain in the bronze medal match. [5] She retired in 2020 after a knee injury. [6]
She completed a Ph.D. in 2020 at RWTH Aachen University with the dissertation Competitive variants of discrete and continuous flows over time supervised by Britta Peis. [7] Her research concerns algorithmic game theory applied to problems including traffic flow and network routing. She took a professorship at the University of Bonn after postdoctoral research with Rico Zenklusen at ETH Zurich and with José Correa at the Center for Mathematical Modeling of the University of Chile, [8] before returning to RWTH Aachen as a professor. [4]
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