I am Marcus and I am a PhD student in Theoretical Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), supervised by Thomas Bläsius.

I am interested in algorithms (mostly for hard problems), (parametrized) complexity, and understanding why hard problems sometimes are easy. Also peripherally interested in Crypto and Machine Learning.

In my free time I like cycling, bouldering and making music. I am a friend of the CCC.

Mini CV:

  • since 10/2020: PhD student at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
  • 08/2020: Master thesis: Beating the Worst-Case: Analysis of a Practical Algorithm for Treewidth
  • 09/2018 - 03/2019: Internship SAP Global Security, France. Topic: Intellectual property protection for distributed deep neural networks via homomorphic encryption, more info: research paper
  • 10/2017 - 08/2020: Master in Computer Science, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
  • winter 2016/17: Erasmus Semester, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
  • 10/2014 - 07/2017: Bachelor in Computer Science, University of Würzburg, Germany