In mid-February, Dr. Moses Ganardi was appointed W2 Professor in the Department of Computer Science. Until his appointment, he was a postdoc and research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Kaiserslautern. Last year, he applied for the advertised W2 professorship for Theoretical Computer Science with a focus on logic. This professorship became vacant due to Prof. Zweig's move from Theoretical Computer Science to Artificial Intelligence. In the area of compulsory teaching, the professorship is responsible for the lecture “Formal Languages and Computability”, which Prof. Ganardi has already been teaching as a substitute for the last two years.

Prof. Ganardi was born in Cologne, studied computer science and mathematics at RWTH Aachen University and completed his doctorate at the University of Siegen on the topic of “Language recognition in the sliding window model”. In 2023, he took up a W3 substitute professorship at the University of Leipzig. His research interests lie in the fields of automata theory, logic in computer science, complexity theory and data compression.

Prof. Ganardi is married and has two children.