Awards ICDM Best Paper Award for "Ternary Matrix Factorization" together with Samuel Maurus, 2014 Best Paper Award at the ICDM Workshop on Biological Data Mining and its Application in Healthcare for "Combining Time Series Similarity with Density-based Clustering to Identify Fiber Bundles in the Human Brain" together with Junming Shao and co-authors from medicine, 2010 Best Published Article in Int. Journal for Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics for "Hierarchical Density-Based Clustering of White Matter Tracts in the Human Brain" together with Junming Shao and co-authors from medicine, 2010 Individual Grants and Fellowships 2013 Helmholtz Young Investigators Group "Integrative Knowledge Discovery for Complex Biological Systems", up to 1.7 Mio. € funding for an independent research group, acceptance rate 5.8% 2009 Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 130.000 € of funding for a research stay at the Florida State University Professional Services PC Chair for ICDM 2020 in Sorrento, Italy Area Chair for ECML-PKDD 2020 Associate Editor for Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), IF 2.247 Reviewer for KDD, ICDM, SDM, ECML-PKDD Contact