Prof. Dorothea Wagner
Email: dwagner@ira.uka.de             Web site:  http://i11www.informatik.uni-karlsruhe.de/algo/people/dwagner/
Prof. Dr. Dorothea Wagner is full professor of computer science at the University of Karlsruhe, Faculty of Informatics; her research areas are network algorithms, combinatorial optimization, visualization, network analysis and transport optimization; she is (co-) author of more than 80 publications. The group consists of roughly 10 fulltime researchers, and is involved in a variety of European and national research projects. Currently Dorothea Wagner is coordinator of the EU-RTN AMORE: Algorithmic Methods for Optimizing the Railways in Europe (HPRN-CT-1999-00104; 2000 - 2004), project leader within the EU FET project COSIN (IST-2001-33555; 2002 - 2005), participant of EU IST project DELIS (FP6/2002/IST/ 001907), coordinator of the German Research Centre on Algorithmics of Large and Complex Networks (DFG SPP 1126). Among other activities Dorothea Wagner is member of the EATCS Council (European Association for Theoretical Computer Science), chair of the ESA steering committee (European Symposium on Algorithms), Editor-in-Chief of JDA Journal of Discrete Algorithms, member of the Editorial board of JGAA Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications and of the Editorial board of CGTA Computational Geometry: theory and applications.

Selected key publications:

• Ulrik Brandes and Dorothea Wagner. Visone-analysis and visualization of social networks. In: Michael Juenger and Petra Mutzel, editors, Special Issue on Graph Drawing Software, Springer Series in Mathematics and Visualization, pages 321-340. Springer-Verlag, 2003.
• Dorothea Wagner. Analysis and visualization of social networks. In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Experimental and Efficient Algorithms (WEA'03), volume 2647 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 261-266. Springer-Verlag, 2003.
• Ulrik Brandes and Patrick Kenis and Dorothea Wagner. Communication centrality in policy network drawings. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 9(2):241-253, 2003.
• Ulrik Brandes and Joerg Raab and Dorothea Wagner. Exploratory network visualization: Simultaneous display of actor status and connections. Journal of Social Structures, 2(4), October 2001.