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We congratulate Felix Joos on receiving the Lautenschläger Junior Researcher Prize! Manfred Lautenschläger, the award sponsor and an Honorary Senator of Hei­del­berg Uni­ver­si­ty, describes him as an “enormously productive young researcher, who with creativity, self-determination and technical flexibility is tackling major questions in theo­re­ti­cal computer science and discrete mathematics”.

Since March 2020, Felix Joos is Junior Pro­fes­sor at the Institute for Computer Science, leading the group Theo­re­ti­cal Computer Science and joined STRUC­TURES in July 2021. He recently attracted attention with his solution to the “Oberwolfach problem” (2018) and a paper on the “kissing number” (2019).

The festive presentation is to take place on 7 May 2021 as a virtual event, open to the public, and will be livestreamed from the Great Hall of the Old Uni­ver­si­ty starting at 17:00. It is accessible via the portal heiONLINE of Hei­del­berg Uni­ver­si­ty.

See press release from April 29, 2021.