Anja Feldmann (born 8 March 1966 in Bielefeld) is a

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computer scientist.

Education and career

Feldmann studied

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at Universität Paderborn and received her degree in 1990. She continued her studies at

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, where she earned her

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in 1991 and her

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in 1995. Following four years of postdoctoral work at

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, she held research positions at

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and

Technical University Munich The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; german: Technische Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It specializes in engineering, technology, medicine, and applied and natural sciences. Establis ...

. In 2006 she was appointed as professor of ''Internet Network Architectures'' for the

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at the

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. As Professor her research focused on Internet measurement,

Teletraffic engineering Teletraffic engineering, telecommunications traffic engineering, or just traffic engineering when in context, is the application of transportation traffic engineering theory to telecommunications. Teletraffic engineers use their knowledge of sta ...

, traffic characterization and debugging

network performance Network performance refers to measures of service quality of a network as seen by the customer. There are many different ways to measure the performance of a network, as each network is different in nature and design. Performance can also be mode ...

issues. She has also conducted research into

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and

network architecture Network architecture is the design of a computer network. It is a framework for the specification of a network's physical components and their functional organization and configuration, its operational principles and procedures, as well as commun ...

. She has served on more than 50 committees and was the co-chair of SIGCOMM. Alex Snoeren said that she "was instrumental in the establishment of a rigorous science of Internet measurement. Among her many contributions, she is perhaps best known for her work in traffic characterization and engineering.” Between 2009 and 2013 Feldmann was Dean of the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering department at the

, Germany. From 2012 until early 2018 Feldmann sat on the employer side of the supervisory board of

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. October 2017 she was appointed as director of the

Max Planck Institute for Informatics The Max Planck Institute for Informatics (German: ''Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik'', abbreviated ''MPI-INF'' or ''MPII'') is a research institute in computer science with a focus on algorithms and their applications in a broad sense. It hosts ...

, her focus will be on researching the

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Other activities

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; german: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) is a public research university in Karlsruhe, Germany. The institute is a national research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 w ...

(KIT), Member of the Supervisory Board

Honors and awards

* 2009: Member of

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* 2011:

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (german: link=no, Förderpreis für deutsche Wissenschaftler im Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Programm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft), in short Leibniz Prize, is awarded by the German Research Foundation to ...

* 2011: Berlin Science Award

References

External links

* * Website of th
Intelligent Networks Research Group
at TU Berlin
Website T-Labs
{{DEFAULTSORT:Feldmann, Anja Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners 1966 births Living people Scientists from Bielefeld Max Planck Society people Technical University of Munich alumni Feldmann Anja German women academics German women computer scientists German computer scientists Network topology Members of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina Max Planck Institute directors