- December 2005 - November 2008:
Ph.D. student at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany
Algorithms and Complexity group - November 2004 - November 2005:
Ph.D. student at the Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications, Nancy, France
Optimization in Bioinformatics group - October 1998 - January 2004:
Studies in Informatics at the Technische Universität München, Germany