Susanne Albers

Susanne Albers is a German theoretical computer scientist who holds the Chair for Efficient Algorithms at the Department of Informatics of the Technical University of Munich, a post she has held since 2013. She studied mathematics, computer science and business administration in Osnabruck and took her doctorate in 1993 at Saarland University under Kurt Mehlhorn, then worked at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science and at research institutions in Berkeley, Berlin and Paderborn. After her habilitation in 1999 she was a professor at Dortmund, Freiburg and Humboldt University of Berlin before moving to Munich. Her research covers the design and analysis of algorithms, especially online algorithms, approximation algorithms, algorithmic game theory and algorithm engineering. Her honours include the Otto Hahn Medal in 1993, the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation in 2008, fellowship of the German Informatics Society in 2011 and a place among the ten inaugural fellows of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science in 2014.