Research Projects, Grants, and Fellowships

DFG Projects:

• Project within the European Science Foundation's EUROCORES program LogICCC: "Computational Foundations of Social Choice"

  • Funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG) under grant RO 1202/12-1, from September 2008 through August 2011.
  • Principal Investigators:
    • Felix Brandt, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany,
    • Ulle Endriss, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
    • Jeffrey Rosenschein, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel,
    • Jörg Rothe, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany,
    • Remzi Sanver, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey.
  • Associate Partners:
    • Vincent Conitzer, Duke University, USA,
    • Edith Elkind, University of Southampton, UK,
    • Edith Hemaspaandra, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA,
    • Lane A. Hemaspaandra, University of Rochester, USA,
    • Jérôme Lang, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse, France,
    • Jean-François Laslier, Ecole Polytechnique Paris, France,
    • Nicolas Maudet, Université Paris-Dauphine, France.
  • Participants in Düsseldorf: Dorothea Baumeister (09/2008 - 08/2011) and Claudia Lindner (09/2008 - 08/2011).
  • Publications within this project (sorted by year).

• "Komplexität von Wahlproblemen: Gewinner-Bestimmung, Manipulation und Wahlkontrolle"

  • Funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG) under grant RO 1202/11-1, from November 2007 through July 2010.
  • Participants: Dorothea Baumeister (11/2007 - 08/2008; and the time until 10/2009 yet to be filled) and Gabor Erdelyi (08/2008 - 07/2010).
  • Publications within this project (sorted by year).

• "Komplexitätsanalyse von Wahlsystemen, exakten und kritischen Problemen und symmetrischer Alternation"

  • Funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG) under grants RO 1202/9-1 and RO 1202/9-3, from September 2003 through April 2007.
  • Participants: Tobias Riege (09/2003 - 08/2006) and Holger Spakowski (05/2004 - 04/2007).
  • Publications within this project (sorted by year).
  • Extracted from the final report: Publications within this project (pdf).

International Collaborative Research Projects:

• Project within the European Science Foundation's EUROCORES program LogICCC: "Computational Foundations of Social Choice"

  see above item under DFG Projects.

• Topics related to "Computational Social Choice"

  • Joint research project with Edith Hemaspaandra, University of Rochester, USA.
  • This project is supported by a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award for Edith Hemaspaandra from 2008 through 2012, granted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
  • Publications within this project (sorted by year).

• "Complexity and Elections"

  • Joint research project with Lane A. Hemaspaandra, University of Rochester, USA.
  • This project is supported by a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award for Lane A. Hemaspaandra from 2007 through 2012, granted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
  • Here is an interview about this research project (in German).
  • Publications within this project (sorted by year).

• "Control of Election Systems"

  • Joint research project with Lane A. Hemaspaandra, University of Rochester, and Edith Hemaspaandra, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA.
  • This project is supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in the TransCoop Program, from November 2005 through October 2008.
  • Publications within this project (sorted by year).

• "Randomness in Complexity Theory"

  • Joint research project with Osamu Watanabe, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.
  • This project was supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in the CONNECT Program, in September/October 2005.
  • Publications within this project (sorted by year).

• "Parallel Access to NP: Complexity and Applicability"

  • This project was jointly supported by the DAAD and the National Science Foundation (NSF) under grant NSF-INT-9815095/DAAD-315-PPP-gü-ab, from 1999 through 2002.
  • Participating universities and departments:
    • Institut für Informatik der FSU Jena, Jena, Germany;
    • CS Department of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA;
    • Institut für Informatik der Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany;
    • CS Department of the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA.
  • Publications within this project (sorted by year).

• "Structure in Complexity Theory: Ordered Access and Certificate Complexity"

  • This project was jointly supported by the DAAD and the NSF under grant NSF-INT-9513368/DAAD-315-PRO-fo-ab, from 1996 through 1998.
  • Participating universities and departments:
    • Institut für Informatik der FSU Jena, Jena, Germany;
    • CS Department of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA;
    • Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY, USA.
  • Publications within this project (sorted by year).

Fellowships:

• Heisenberg Fellowship

  • Funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG) under grant RO 1202/6-1, from February 2000 through September 2000.
  • Publications within this project (sorted by year).

• DAAD Post-doctoral Research Fellowship

  • Funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in the NATO program for visiting the CS Department of the University of Rochester (Rochester, NY, USA), from September 1997 through July 1998.
  • Publications within this project (sorted by year).

• DAAD Research Fellowship

  • Funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for visiting the CS Department of the University of Rochester (Rochester, NY, USA), from September 1993 through June 1994.
  • Publications within this project (sorted by year).

• Graduate Fellowship

  • Funded by Land Thüringen, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, from November 1991 through May 1992.
  • Publications within this project (sorted by year).