Prof. Dr. Nicole Schweikardt

Postal address:	Prof. Dr. Nicole Schweikardt Institute for Computer Science Goethe-University Postfach 11 19 32 D-60054 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Office:	Room 115 (1st floor) Robert-Mayer-Straße 11-15 D-60325 Frankfurt am Main
Office hour:	In Winter 2011/12: Wednesday 3-4 p.m. During the semester breaks, please contact Jutta Nadland (or send an email to me) to coordinate an appointment.
Phone:	+49-69-798 28155 +49-69-798 28119 (Secretary: Jutta Nadland)
Fax:	+49-69-798 28334
E-Mail:
URL:	http://www.tks.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/schweika

Research interest

Logic, Database Theory, Descriptive and Computational Complexity Theory, Finite Model Theory, Foundations of processing huge data sets and data streams

Publications

Ordered by years or categories.

Teaching

Examination dates

Information concerning examination dates etc. can be found here.

CV

Diplom (master's degree) (1998) in mathematics (minor in computer science) and Ph.D. degree (2002) at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (PhD advisor: Prof. Dr. Clemens Lautemann). Post-Doc at the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science at University of Edinburgh (2002-2003). Wissenschaftliche Assistentin (Post-Doc) (2003-2005) and Assistant Professor (2005-2007) for Logic and Database Theory at the Institute for Computer Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Since 2007 Professor (Associate Professor in 2007; Full Professor since 2008) for Theory of Complex Systems at the Institute for Computer Science at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.

Honours and Awards: GI-Dissertationspreis (2002), Emmy Noether grant (2005, within the "DFG Aktionsplan Informatik"), elected member of the Young Academy (2005) at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina, Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz-Prize awarded by the German Research Foundation (2007).

Activities

Currently, I'm head of the advisory board of Bundeswettbewerb Informatik (since 2008), I'm a member of the Scientific Directorate of Schloss Dagstuhl (since 2010) and the ICDT-Council (International Conference on Database Theory) (since 2007), I'm on the editorial board of Logical Methods in Computer Science (LMCS) (since 2010), and I'm on the executive board of the German Logic Society "Deutsche Vereinigung für Mathematische Logik und für Grundlagenforschung der Exakten Wissenschaften" (DVMLG) (since 2010).

I have been publicity co-chair for the IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS) (2005-2010), publicity co-chair of the 4th Federated Logic Conference (FLoC 2006), and publicity chair of the 5th Federated Logic Conference (FLoC 2010).

I serve(d) on the program committees of the following conferences:

I am/was co-organizer of the following workshops:

Dagstuhl-Seminar "Advances and Applications of Automata on Words and Trees" (12.-17.12.2010, Schloss Dagstuhl)
GI-Dagstuhl-Seminar "Data Exchange, Data Integration, and Data Streams" (DEIS'10) (07.-12.11.2010, Schloss Dagstuhl)
Algorithmic Model Theory Meeting 2010 (AlMoTh 2010) (25.-26.2.2010, Goethe-Univ. Frankfurt)
16th annual meeting of the "GI Fachgruppe Logik in der Informatik" (LogInf 2009) (6.-7.11.2009, Goethe-Univ. Frankfurt)
ICC'08: Information, Control and Communication. A Transdisciplinary Workshop (10.-12.04.2008, Junge Akademie, Berlin)