Dorothea Wagner (born 1957) is a German

computer scientist A computer scientist is a person who is trained in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus ( ...

, known for her research in

graph drawing Graph drawing is an area of mathematics and computer science combining methods from geometric graph theory and information visualization to derive two-dimensional depictions of graphs arising from applications such as social network analysis, car ...

route planning A journey planner, trip planner, or route planner is a specialized search engine used to find an optimal means of travelling between two or more given locations, sometimes using more than one transport mode. Searches may be optimized on differen ...

, and

social network analysis Social network analysis (SNA) is the process of investigating social structures through the use of networks and graph theory. It characterizes networked structures in terms of ''nodes'' (individual actors, people, or things within the network) ...

. She heads the Institute of Theoretical Informatics at the

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 ...

.Faculty profile
KIT, retrieved 2012-03-09.

Biography

Wagner did her undergraduate studies at

RWTH Aachen University RWTH Aachen University (), also known as North Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Technical University of Aachen, University of Aachen, or ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hoch ...

, graduating in 1983, and then continued at RWTH Aachen for her graduate studies, earning a Ph.D. in 1986 under the supervision of Rolf Möhring and Walter Oberschelp.Curriculum vitae
retrieved 2012-03-09. She then earned her

habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including ...

at the

Berlin Institute of Technology The Technical University of Berlin (official name both in English and german: link=no, Technische Universität Berlin, also known as TU Berlin and Berlin Institute of Technology) is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was ...

in 1992. She stayed at the Berlin Institute of Technology as an assistant professor, also taking a temporary position at the

University of Halle-Wittenberg Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (german: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), also referred to as MLU, is a public, research-oriented university in the cities of Halle and Wittenberg and the largest and oldest university in ...

in 1993, before becoming a full professor at the

University of Konstanz The University of Konstanz (german: Universität Konstanz) is a university in the city of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its main campus was opened on the Gießberg in 1972 after being founded in 1966. The university is Germany's ...

in 1994. In 2003, she moved to Karlsruhe. Since 2007 she is vice president of the German Research Foundation (DFG).Scientific activities
retrieved 2012-03-09. She is one of five editors-in-chief of the ''Journal of Discrete Algorithms'', published by

Elsevier Elsevier () is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content. Its products include journals such as '' The Lancet'', '' Cell'', the ScienceDirect collection of electronic journals, '' Trends'', ...

, and editor-in-chief of the OpenAccess Series in Informatics book series published by Schloss Dagstuhl. She has been program committee chair or co-chair of the 10th Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX'2008), 14th

International Symposium on Graph Drawing The International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD) is an annual academic conference in which researchers present peer reviewed papers on graph drawing, information visualization of network information, geometric graph theory, and related topics. ...

(GD'2006), 2nd Workshop on Algorithmic Methods and Models for Optimization of Railways (ATMOS'2002), 26th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG'2000), and 4th Workshop on Algorithm Engineering (WAE'2000), and been on the editorial boards and program committees of many more computer science journals and conferences. In 2019 Wagner was one of three candidates for the position as president of the DFG; after a year-long selection process, the position eventually went to

Katja Becker Katja Becker (born 7 March 1965, also known as ''Katja Becker-Brandenburg'' in some older publications) is a German physician and biochemist who has been serving as the president of the German Research Foundation (DFG since 2020. She had previous ...

Awards and honors

In 2008 she was elected as a fellow of the

Gesellschaft für Informatik The German Informatics Society (GI) (german: Gesellschaft für Informatik) is a German professional society for computer science, with around 20,000 personal and 250 corporate members. It is the biggest organized representation of its kind in the ...

.GI-Fellow citation
, retrieved 2012-03-09. In 2012 she received a Google Focused Research Award together with

Hannah Bast Hannah Bast is a German computer scientist known for her work on routing in transportation networks and search engines. She works as a professor at the University of Freiburg, where she holds the chair in algorithms and data structures and is d ...

and Peter Sanders for the project “Next-Generation Route Planning“.Google Focused Research Award citation
retrieved 2012-03-014 She is a member of the

Academia Europaea The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters, Law, and Sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europea ...

.. In 2019 she was awarded the

Konrad Zuse Medal The Konrad Zuse Medal for Services to Computer Science is the highest award of the (German Computer Science Society), given every two years to one or sometimes two leading German computer scientists. It is named after German computer pioneer Konrad ...

Selected publications

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wagner, Dorothea 1957 births Living people German computer scientists German women computer scientists RWTH Aachen University alumni Academic staff of the Technical University of Berlin Academic staff of the University of Konstanz Academic staff of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Graph drawing people German women academics Members of Academia Europaea