About Me

I am a postdoc in the group of Rico Zenklusen at the Institute for Operations Research at ETH Zurich and a Visiting Lecturer at Ashesi University and at AIMS South Africa.

Research. My main research interest is designing approximation algorithms for various Combinatorial Optimization problems, in particular clustering and scheduling. You can find my publications here.

Applications. I also enjoy applying techniques from optimization and operations research to real-world problems. I have built and deployed bespoke software solutions for solving real-world optimization problems of various industry partners. See here for more information.

Teaching. I am involved with teaching and academic partnership efforts in Africa including co-organizing this networking event, recruiting tutors and lecturers for AIMS (read about the experience from one of them here), as well as regularly returning to South Africa and Ghana to teach, see here.

Competitions. I used to compete in mathematics competitions. Now I organize competitions and run preparation courses at the university level, see here.

Other. Outside of work, I enjoy cooking, linguistics, and puzzles (sometimes even cooking up linguistic puzzles), and I used to play Ultimate.

Brief Bio

I completed my PhD at ETH Zurich in July 2023.

In 2022, I put my PhD on hold temporarily to spend nine months at Huawei's Zurich Research Center in the Computing Systems Lab, researching possibilities and limits of optimal parallelization.

Before starting my PhD, I was the Head Tutor at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Cape Town, South Africa, for two wonderful years.

Before that, I graduated with an MMath and BA from the University of Cambridge (Trinity Hall) in 2016 under the wise guidance of Tadashi Tokieda and Tom Körner.

Before that, I competed in mathematics competitions and got a Bronze Medal at the IMO 2011 and a Silver Medal at the IMC 2012. I have also contributed a number of original problems that have appeared in competitions, including this one.

Before that, I was born and raised in Innsbruck, Austria.

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