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Technische Universität München

Dr. Johannes Zink

Address

TUINH01 Informatik Heilbronn 1
Lehrstuhl für Efficient Algorithms (Prof. Kobourov)
Bildungscampus 2
74076 Heilbronn, Germany 

Contact Information

  johannes.zink(at)tum.de
 ☎️ +49 7131 26418925
 🏠 Room D.4.03
 📆 office hours by appointment

Research Interests

  • Theory and application in graph drawing
  • Computational geometry
  • Algorithmic problems and their complexity

Short CV

since 2024 Post-Doc
Technische Universität München (TUM, Heilbronn)
2023–2024 Post-Doc
Universität Würzburg
2018–2023 Dr. rer. nat. (PhD)
Universität Würzburg • Advisor: Alexander Wolff • Thesis: Algorithms for Drawing Graphs and Polylines with Straight-Line Segments
2015–2017 M.Sc. in Computer Science
Universität Würzburg • Thesis: 1-Planar RAC Drawings with Bends
2012–2015 B.Sc. in Computer Science
Universität Würzburg • Thesis: Speeding up Force-Directed Graph Drawing Algorithms Using Well-Separated Pair Decompositions
2012 Abitur
Frobenius-Gymnasium Hammelburg

Publications

Please refer to the list on DBLP.

Awards and Scholarships

  • 1st Place at GD Contest 2024 Live Challenge (Manual Category), together with Tim Hegemann.
  • PhD prize of the Lower Franconian Memorial Year Foundation for Science and the University of Würzburg for a scientifically outstanding PhD thesis (2024).
  • 1st Place at GD Contest 2023 Live Challenge (Manual Category), together with Tim Hegemann and Florentina Voboril.
  • PhD Prize by the Institute of Computer Science, University of Würzburg for an excellent PhD thesis (2023).
  • 2nd Place at GD Contest 2022 Live Challenge (Manual Category), together with Felix Klesen.
  • 1st Place at GD Contest 2020 Live Challenge (Manual Category), together with Jonathan Klawitter.
  • 1st Place at GD Contest 2018 Live Challenge (Manual Category), together with Myroslav Kryven.
  • Deutschlandstipendium (2015–2017)
  • B.Sc. Prize by the Institute of Computer Science, University of Würzburg for excellent academic achievements with an outstanding bachelor thesis (2016).

Work in Committees

  • Program committee member of the conference EuroCG 2025
  • Program committee member of the conference GD 2023
  • Organization committee member of the conference EuroCG 2020

Teaching

TUM Heilbronn:

Universität Würzburg:

  • SS '24: Lecture Visualization of Graphs,
    Seminar Algorithmics
  • WS '23/24: Lecture Advanced Algorithms
  • SS '23: Lecture Visualization of Graphs
  • WS '22/23: Lecture Advanced Algorithms
  • SS '22: Tutorials in Algorithmic Graph Theory
  • WS '21/22: Tutorials in Computational Geometry,
    Seminar Graph Visualization
  • SS '21: Tutorials in Algorithmic Graph Theory
  • SS '20: Seminar Practical and Theoretical Aspects of Graph Drawing
  • SS '19: Tutorials in Algorithmic Graph Theory,
    Seminar Graph Visualization in 3D
  • WS '18/19: Tutorials in Algorithms and Data Structures,
    Seminar Graph Visualization
  • SS '18: Tutorials in Randomized Algorithms
  • SS '17: Tutorials in Algorithmic Graph Theory
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