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Gerhard J. Woeginger

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Gerhard J. Woeginger (31 May 1964 – 1 April 2022) was an Austrian mathematician and computer scientist. He worked in Germany as a professor at RWTH Aachen University.[1] He was program chair of the European Symposium on Algorithms in 1997. In 1996, Woeginger won the Start-Preis.[2]

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2014.[3]

Woeginger died on 1 April 2022, at the age of 57.[4]

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  1. Algorithmen und Komplexität, RWTH, archived from the original on 7 January 2017, retrieved 17 January 2017.
  2. Die START-ProjektleiterInnen im Portrait: Jahrgang 1996, Austrian Science Fund, archived from the original on 29 May 2016, retrieved 19 September 2015.
  3. "Gerhard Woeginger". Academia Europaea. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019.
  4. "Startseite" [Home Page] (in German). RWTH Aachen, Lehrstuhl für Informatik 1 – Algorithmen und Komplexität. Retrieved 4 April 2022. Am 1. April ist Prof. Gerhard Woeginger im Alter von 57 Jahren nach schwerer Krankheit überraschend verstorben. [On 1 April, Prof. Gerhard Woeginger died suddenly after a severe illness at the age of 57.]