Nicole Megow


Nicole Megow is a German discrete mathematician and theoretical computer scientist whose research topics include combinatorial optimization, approximation algorithms, and online algorithms for scheduling. She is a professor in the faculty of mathematics and computer science at the University of Bremen.

Education and career

Megow earned a diploma in mathematical economics from Technische Universität Berlin in 2002, and completed a doctorate from the same university in 2006. Her dissertation, Coping with Incomplete Information in Scheduling, was supervised by Rolf H. Mohring.
After working as a researcher and visiting professor at Technische Universität Berlin, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and the Technische Universität Darmstadt, she became an assistant professor at the Technical [University of Munich] in 2015, and took her present position as professor at the University of Bremen in 2016.

Recognition

Megow was one of the 2013 winners of the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis.