Nicole Megow is a German discrete mathematician and theoretical computer scientist whose research topics include combinatorial optimization, approximation algorithms, and online algorithms for scheduling. She is a professor in the faculty of mathematics and computer science at the University of Bremen.

Education and career

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Megow earned a diploma in mathematical economics from Technische Universität Berlin in 2002, and completed a doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) from the same university in 2006.[1] Her dissertation, Coping with Incomplete Information in Scheduling, was supervised by Rolf H. Mohring.[2]

After working as a researcher and visiting professor at Technische Universität Berlin, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and the Technische Universität Darmstadt, she became an assistant professor at the Technical University of Munich in 2015, and took her present position as professor at the University of Bremen in 2016.[1]

Recognition

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Megow was one of the 2013 winners of the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2020-04-25
  2. ^ Nicole Megow at the Mathematics Genealogy Project  
  3. ^ DFG Announces Recipients of 2013 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 7 May 2013, retrieved 2020-04-25
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