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Laura Vargas Koch (born 29 June 1990) is a German former judoka and Olympic medalist[1] and computer scientist and applied mathematician.[2] She holds a professorship in combinatorial optimization as Bonn Junior Fellow in the Research Institute for Discrete Mathematics and Hausdorff Center for Mathematics at the University of Bonn.[3]
Vargas Koch competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in the women's 70 kg division. She won a bronze medal by defeating María Bernabéu of Spain in the bronze medal match.[4] She retired in 2020 after a knee injury.[5]
She completed a Ph.D. in 2020 at RWTH Aachen University with the dissertation Competitive variants of discrete and continuous flows over time supervised by Britta Peis.[6] Her research concerns algorithmic game theory applied to problems including traffic flow and network routing. She took a professorship at the University of Bonn after postdoctoral research with Rico Zenklusen at ETH Zurich and with José Correa at the Center for Mathematical Modeling of the University of Chile.[7]
- ^ "Laura Vargas Koch". judoinside. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
- ^ To verify the connection between these two identities, see e.g. "Award: Silver for Laura Vargas Koch at the Judo Grand Prix in Tiflis" from the noticeboard of the RWTH Aachen research group UnRAVeL – UNcertainty and Randomness in Algorithms, VErification and Logic, retrieved 2024-02-20
- ^ "People". Bonn Mathematics. Retrieved 20 February 2024. "Bonn Junior Fellows". Hausdorff Center for Mathematics. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
- ^ "Rio 2016". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 31 August 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
- ^ Crowley, Jo (23 February 2020). "From Mats to Maths: Laura Vargas Koch Retires". IJF News. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
- ^ Laura Vargas Koch at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Koch, Laura Vargas. "About me". Retrieved 20 February 2024.