Marlene Gründel
Univ.Ass.

Marlene Gründel

MSc
Email: mgruendel@ac.tuwien.ac.at
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Biography

Since June 2025, I am a PhD student in the Cluster of Excellence Bilateral Artificial Intelligence.
My supervisor is Prof. Robert Ganian.


Education

  • PhD student
    Algorithms and Complexity Group, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
    Since June 2025
    supervised by Prof. Robert Ganian
  • M.Sc. in Computer Science
    Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
    September 2022 – March 2025
    Thesis: On the Relation between Descriptive and Parameterized Complexity in Graph Modification Problems,
    supervised by Prof. Christian Komusiewicz
  • Visiting Graduate Student
    Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Berkeley, US
    March 2023 – May 2023
    Program: Satisfiability: Theory, Practice, and Beyond
  • B.Sc. in Computer Science
    Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
    October 2019 – August 2022
    Thesis: Feasible Interpolation as a Lower Bound Technique for Resolution and QBF Proof Systems,
    supervised by Prof. Olaf Beyersdorff

Awards

  • Ada-Lovelace-Prize 2026 for outstanding service to the department of Computer Science,
    awarded by Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
  • Honours Student of Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
  • Dean’s Examination Prize 2023 for outstanding Bachelor Thesis
  • Deutschlandstipendium (Scholarship)

Organised Conferences and Workshops


Reviewing

  • STOC 2026, ICML 2026

Teaching

  • Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen