Prof. Dr. Dr. Klaus-Tycho Förster
Address
Prof. Dr. Dr. Klaus-Tycho Förster
Computer Science IV
TU Dortmund University
D-44221 Dortmund
Phone and E-Mail
Tel.: +49 (0)231 755 2117/2596 [Sekretariat]
Fax: +49 (0)231 755 4730
E-Mail: klaus-tycho.foerster (at) tu-dortmund.de
Office
Room 219, 2. Floor
Otto-Hahn-Str. 16
D-44227 Dortmund
Office hours
Please contact me by e-mail.
Department of Computer Science/LS4
TU Dortmund
Otto-Hahn-Straße 16
44227 Dortmund
Deutschland
Education
- 2002
High School Diploma in Wolfsburg - 2005
Intermediate diploma in mathematics at the TU Braunschweig
Intermediate diploma in computer science at the TU Braunschweig - 2007
Diploma in Mathematics at the TUBraunschweig [Diplom-Mathematiker].
Thesis on routing in wireless sensor networks (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sándor Fekete) - 2010
Second state examination for the grammar school teaching profession in computer science and mathematics [Assessor of Teacher Education].
Thesis on the didactic reduction of technical aspects of computer networks (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eckart Modrow) - 2011
Diploma in Computer Science at the Technical University of Braunschweig [Diplom-Informatiker].Thesis on the approximation of fault-tolerant domination (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jirí Adámek) - 2016
Doctorate in Computer Science at the ETH Zurich [Dr. sc.]
Dissertation on Consistent Network Updates in Software Defined Networks (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Roger Wattenhofer) - 2020
Doctorate in Didactics of Mathematics at the University of Hildesheim [Dr. phil.]
Dissertation on algorithms and programming in geometry teaching (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Barara Schmidt-Thieme)
Professional stations
- 2002 - 2003
Military service - 2006 - 2008
Student assistant at the Institute for Theoretical Computer Science at the TU Braunschweig (Head: Prof. Dr. Jirí Adámek) - 2008 - 2010
Teacher in training at the Max-Planck-Gymnasium Göttingen - 2010 - 2011
Research Assistant at the Institute for Mathematics and Applied Computer Science at the University of Hildesheim (Head: Prof. Dr. Barbara Schmidt-Thieme) - 2011 - 2016
Research associate in the Distributed Computing Group at ETH Zurich (Head: Prof. Dr. Roger Wattenhofer) - 2016
Visiting Researcher in der Mobility and Networking Research Group bei Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA - 2017 - 2018
PostDoc at Aalborg University (Head: Prof. Dr. Stefan Schmid) - 2017 - 2019
Lectureships at the University of Hildesheim (didactics of computer science) - 2018 - 2021
PostDoc at the University of Vienna (Director: Prof. Dr. Stefan Schmid)
Teaching Award of the University of Vienna [UNIVIE Teaching Award 2020]. - since October 2021
Professor for Computer Networks and Distributed Systems at TU Dortmund University
- Resilience and consistency of computer networks and distributed systems
- Dynamic distributed systems
- Reconfigurable computer networks (e.g. in the area of optical networks)
Please check the German version of this page. It is always possible (and even encouraged) to write your thesis in English.