Susanne Albers

Susanne Albers (born June 10, 1965 in Georgsmarienhütte ) is a German computer scientist and holder of the Chair XIV Theoretical Computer Science at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich .

Life

Albers studied mathematics , computer science and business administration at the University of Osnabrück from 1984 to 1990 . In 1993 she did her doctorate with a dissertation on online algorithms at the University of Saarland .

She worked at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science until 1999 and made research visits to the USA, Japan and other European countries. In 1999 she completed her habilitation on efficient algorithms and was professor at the University of Dortmund from 1999 to 2001 . From 2001 to 2009 Albers was Professor of Computer Science at the University of Freiburg . From 2009 to 2013 she was a professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin . She has been a professor at the Technical University of Munich since 2013 .

Albers works in the field of design and analysis of algorithms , especially online and approximation algorithms. She also deals with algorithmic game theory and algorithms engineering .

In 1993 she received the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society , and in 2008 the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation , the German sponsorship award with the highest endowment of 2.5 million euros.

In 2010 Albers was accepted into the Leopoldina . In 2011 Albers was made a GI Fellow . Since 2016 she has been a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz .

Awards and honors

1993: Otto Hahn Medal from the Max Planck Society
2008: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
2010: Member of the Leopoldina, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
2011: Fellow of the Society for Computer Science
2013: Member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
2014: Fellow of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science

Web links

Literature by and about Susanne Albers in the catalog of the German National Library
Albers website at the Technical University of Munich
Susanne Albers in the database of renowned scientists AcademiaNet

Individual evidence

↑ Leopoldina. Retrieved September 28, 2012 .
^ GI Fellow. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original ; Retrieved September 28, 2012 .
↑ Member entry of Susanne Albers at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on October 11, 2017
↑ Member entry of Susanne Albers (with picture and curriculum vitae) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on May 22, 2016.

personal data
SURNAME	Albers, Susanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German computer scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	June 10, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	Georgsmarienhütte

[1] Leopoldina. Retrieved September 28, 2012 .

[2] GI Fellow. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original ; Retrieved September 28, 2012 .

[3] Member entry of Susanne Albers at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on October 11, 2017

[4] Member entry of Susanne Albers (with picture and curriculum vitae) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on May 22, 2016.