Efficient Algorithms Group

Robert Elsässer

Curriculum Vitae

Robert Elsässer graduated as “Diplom-Informatiker” in 1998 at the University of Paderborn, Germany. In 2002 he obtained a PhD in Computer Science at the same university, and was appointed to Junior Professor at the Institute for Computer Science of the University of Paderborn. For his PhD Thesis, he received the faculty award for an excellent dissertation. From April 2005 to March 2006, Robert Elsässer visited the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, San Diego, USA. In September 2007, he was a visiting professor at INRIA-Futurs, Bordeaux, and from October 2009 to September 2010 he headed the Chair of Algorithms and Complexity at the University of Freiburg as a visiting professor. The main research interests of Robert Elsässer include parallel and distributed algorithms, as well as the structure and spectra of graphs and networks. He served as member in the program committee of several international conferences, and as a referee for the German Research Foundation (DFG), the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the German National Academic Foundation - Studienstiftung, as well as for numerous international conferences and journals.

In February/March 2012, Robert Elsässer has been offered professorships at the University of Hamburg and the University of Salzburg, respectively. Currently, he is heading the Efficient Algorithms Group at the University of Salzburg.

Membership in Program Committees (2012-2019):

Organized Events:

CRM Conference on Applications of Graph Spectra in Computer Science (together with F. Comellas and D. Stevanovic)
Dagstuhl Seminar 13042 "Epidemic Algorithms and Processes: From Theory to Applications (together with B. Doerr, P. Fraigniaud, and R. Guerraoui)
4th Austrian High Performance Computing Workshop (together with M. Vajtersic and P. Zinterhof)

Third-Party Funded Projects

2005–2006	Entwicklung effizienter verteilter Algorithmen in großen selbstorganisierenden Netzwerken DFG Forschungsstipendium
2007–2008	Geometric Sensor Networks with Random Topology Royal Society IJP 2007/R1, together with Leszek Gąsieniec, University of Liverpool
2008–2011	Informationsverteilung in realitätsnahen Netzwerken DFG Projekt, Kooperation mit Christian Schindelhauer
2011–2013	Random Walks, Interacting Particles and Faster Network Exploration Royal Society IJP JP090592, together with Colin Cooper and Tomasz Radzik, King's College, London
2012–2014	Untersuchung von epidemischen Prozessen und Algorithmen in großen Netzwerken Austrian Science Fund (FWF): P 25214
2015–2019	Distributed Voting in Large Networks Austrian Science Fund (FWF): P 27613
2018–2021	HiDALGO Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the EU