Angelika Steger

Angelika Steger is a mathematician and computer scientist whose research interests include graph theory, randomized algorithms, and approximation algorithms. She is a professor at ETH Zurich.

Education and career

After earlier studies at the University of Freiburg and Heidelberg University, Steger earned a master's degree from Stony Brook University in 1985. She completed a doctorate from the University of Bonn in 1990, under the supervision of Hans Jürgen Prömel, with a dissertation on random combinatorial structures, and earned her habilitation from Bonn in 1994. After a visiting position at the University of Kiel, she became a professor at the University of Duisburg in 1995, moved to the Technical [University of Munich] in 1996, and moved again to ETH Zurich in 2003.

Steger is the author of a German-language textbook on combinatorics:
and a monograph on the Steiner tree problem:
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Steger was elected to the Academy of [Sciences Leopoldina] in 2007.
She was an list of [International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers|invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians] in 2014.