Prof. Dr. Angelika Steger

Angelika Steger has been Full Professor for Computer Science at the Institute of Theoretical Computer Science at ETH Zurich since October 2003.

Angelika Steger studied mathematics in Freiburg and Heidelberg and obtained a Master's degree in Applied Mathematics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1985. In 1990 she completed her doctorate  at the University of Bonn. She then held positions at the Universities of Kiel, Duisburg and TU München before she became a full professor at the Institute of Theoretical Computer Science at ETH Zürich in October 2003.  Since 2009 she is also a fellow at Collegium Helveticum. From 2005 to 2013, she served on the board of the research council of the Swiss National Science Foundation. 2007 she was elected member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In 2014, she was invited to give a talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul, Korea.

Her main research interests are probabilistic methods and randomized algorithms, graph theory, analysis of discrete structures and combinatorial optimization.