I obtained my PHD in 2015 at the Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry at the Vienna University of Technology . My thesis was written under the supervision of Prof. Alois Panholzer and is entitled "Patterns in labelled combinatorial objects". My research interests lie within algorithms and combinatorics. Currently, my focus is on the design of efficient algorithms for combinatorial problems, in particular for real-world combinatorial optimization problems. I have also worked on the exact and asymptotic enumeration of labelled combinatorial objects.