since August 2020
Professor in Mathematics, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

since August 2016
Associate Professor in Mathematics, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

since January 2012
Lecturer | Assistant Professor in Mathematics, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

October 2009 - December 2011
Postdoc, Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, USP, São Paulo, Brazil

June 2009 - September 2009
Postdoc, Department of Mathematics, Technische Universität München, Germany

April 2005 - June 2009
PhD student, Department of Mathematics, Technische Universität München, Germany, supervised by A. Taraz

September 2001 - May 2002
Exchange student, University of Toronto, Canada

October 1998 - January 2005
Diplom, Department of Computer Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

September 1994 - July 1998
Albert-Schweizer-Gymnasium, Erfurt, Germany

2022
Invited sectional lecture, International Congress of Mathematicians

2019
Excellence in Education award (LSE)

2018
Fulkerson Prize

2016
Major Review Teaching Prize (LSE)

Editorial boards
Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B (managing editor), Electronic Journal of Combinatorics (editor-in-chief 2019-2024), Random Structures and Algorithms, Advances in Combinatorics

Committees
British Combinatorial Committee (2017-2024)

Prize committees
Fulkerson Prize (2024), ICBS Frontiers of Science Award (2024)

Conference organisation
London Colloquia in Combinatorics (yearly since 2016), Connections Workshop at Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (Berkeley, 2025), Graduate School at Park City Mathematics Institute (Princeton, 2025), several 1-week workshops in Combinatorics at LSE, several minisymposia at conferences

since 2023
Deputy Head (Research) of the Department of Mathematics

since 2018
Research Degrees Sub-committee

Jasmin Katz (PhD ongoing), Joanna Lada (PhD ongoing), Domenico Mergoni (PhD ongoing), Yani Pehova (postdoc 2023-2024), Amedeo Sgueglia (PhD 2022), Liana Yepremyan (postdoc 2020-2022), Eng Keat Hng (PhD 2021), Attila Dankovics (PhD 2021), Olaf Parczyk (postdoc 2019-2021), Jan Corsten (PhD 2020), Matthew Jenssen (PhD 2017)

April-July 2022
Uni Hamburg & TUHH, Hamburg, Germany

April-July 2018
Uni Hamburg & TUHH, Hamburg, Germany

April 2016
IMPA, Rio de Janiero, Brazil

January 2014 - February 2014
Mittag Leffler Institute, programme on "Graphs, Hypergraphs, and Computing", Stockholm, Sweden

April 2008, August - September 2012, April 2013, April 2016
Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, USP, São Paulo, Brazil

September 2006 - June 2007
Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

January 2005 - March 2005
Doccourse Prague 2005 on Ramsey Theory, Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Czech Republic

2018
STICERD Small Grant "Analysing sparse large-scale networks"

2018 - 2019
EPSRC First Grant "Packing and labelling large-scale graphs"

2016 & 2018
Focused Research Grant, Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research
"Large-scale structures in random graphs" and "Structure and randomness in hypergraphs"

2010 - 2011
FAPESP postdoc grant "Embedding and packing problems in extremal graph theory"

2009
EUBRANEX postdoc grant "Spanning subgraphs of random graphs"

2006 - 2007
Fellowship, Minerva Foundation, "Embedding graphs of bounded bandwidth"