Hannah Bast

Hannah Bast (born April 22, 1970 in Hanau ) is a German computer scientist and professor at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg .

Bast studied mathematics and computer science at Saarland University from 1988 to 1994 . In 2000 she did her doctorate under Kurt Mehlhorn with a thesis on process scheduling . She then carried out research at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science in Saarbrücken and at a cluster of excellence at Saarland University. In 2008 and 2009 she also worked with Google in Zurich. After turning down an offer at the University of Mainz in 2008, she took over the chair for algorithms and data structures at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg in 2009 . Since 2012 she has been the dean of studies at the Technical Faculty in Freiburg.

Bast's work focuses on applied algorithms , for example for managing information or calculating routes . She has received several awards for her work: in 1999 she received the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society for her dissertation . In 2012, together with Peter Sanders and Dorothea Wagner, she received a Google Research Award for her research on algorithms for route planning. She has also received several teaching awards. Since 2018 she has been an expert on the Enquete Commission Artificial Intelligence - Social Responsibility and Economic, Social and Ecological Potential for the Bundestag parliamentary group Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen .

Web links

• Literature by and about Hannah Bast in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hannah Bast's CV at the University of Freiburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hannah Bast: Provably Optimal Scheduling of Similiar Tasks . Saarbrücken ( uni-freiburg.de [PDF; accessed on May 22, 2017]).
2. ↑ Study Commission on Artificial Intelligence. Expert. German Bundestag, accessed on November 1, 2018 .