Carola Doerr

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Carola Doerr (née Winzen, born 1984) is a German computer scientist who works in France as a director of research at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), affiliated with the Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6.{{r|cv}} Her research concerns the theoretical and empirical analysis of metaheuristics for black-box optimization.{{r|cnrs}}

Education and career

Carola Winzen was born in 1984 in Würselen,{{r|oldcv}} and did her secondary education in Konstanz, with a year abroad in Paraguay. She received a diploma in mathematics from the University of Kiel in 2007, and continued her studies at Saarland University and the nearby Max Planck Institute for Informatics, completing her Ph.D. in 2011.{{r|cv}} Her doctoral dissertation, Toward a Complexity Theory for Randomized Search Heuristics: Black-Box Models, was jointly supervised by Kurt Mehlhorn and Benjamin Doerr.{{r|mg}}

After continuing as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, she moved to France in 2012 for a second postdoctorate at Paris Diderot University, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She has been a permanent researcher with CNRS since 2013. She received her habilitation in 2020, and became a director of research for the CNRS in 2022.{{r|cv}}

Recognition

Doerr is a 2013 recipient of the Otto Hahn Medal,{{r|cv}} and a 2022 recipient of the CNRS Bronze Medal.{{r|cnrs}}

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