Person profile
Marc Hellmuth
Prof. Dr. rer. nat.
Head of the Theoretical Computer Science Group
- Institution
- Leipzig University
Institute of Computer Science - Address
- Augustusplatz 10
04109 Leipzig, Germany - Contact
- marc.hellmuth@uni-leipzig.de
+49 341 97 32200
Short profile
I head the Theoretical Computer Science Group at Leipzig University. My research lies at the interface of discrete mathematics, algorithms, and computational complexity, often motivated by questions arising in the life sciences.
Academic positions
- since 2026
- Full Professor (W3)
Leipzig University - 2020–2026
- Associate Professor
Stockholm University - 2020
- Lecturer
University of Leeds - 2015–2020
- Junior Professor
University of Greifswald
Research interests
I study hidden structure in discrete data and use structural insights to design exact, parameterized, approximate, and practical algorithms with rigorous guarantees.
- Graph theory and combinatorics
- Algorithms and computational complexity
- Parameterized algorithms
- Phylogenetic networks
- Graph decomposition
- Computational biology