Marlene Gründel
| Address: | Marlene Gründel Technische Universität Wien Institute of Logic and Computation Favoritenstraße 9–11, E192-01 1040 Wien Austria |
| Room: | HF0413 |
| Phone: | +43(1)58801–NULL |
| Email: | mgruendel@ac.tuwien.ac.at |
| Web: | http://www.ac.tuwien.ac.at/people/mgruendel/ |

Since June 2025, I am a PhD student in the Cluster of Excellence Bilateral Artificial Intelligence.
My supervisor is Prof. Robert Ganian.
Publications
Gateways to Tractability for Satisfiability in Pearl’s Causal Hierarchy
with Robert Ganian and Simon Wietheger. to appear at ICML 2026
Bilateral Treewidth for QBF: Where Strategies and Resolution Meet
with Robert Ganian. to appear at SAT 2026
Awards
- Ada-Lovelace Prize 2026
This prize is awarded once a year to a student who combines academic success with exceptional commitment to the welfare of others and to the Institute of Computer Science at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. - Honours Student 2024 - 2025
The Honours Programme selects and supports research-oriented students. - Dean's Examination Prize for Bachelor Thesis 2023
- Deutschlandstipendium (2022 - 2025)
Scholarship
Education
- PhD student
Algorithms and Complexity Group, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Since June 2025
supervised by Prof. Robert Ganian - M.Sc. in Computer Science
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
September 2022 – March 2025
Thesis: On the Relation between Descriptive and Parameterized Complexity in Graph Modification Problems,
supervised by Prof. Christian Komusiewicz - Visiting Graduate Student
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Berkeley, US
March 2023 – May 2023
Program: Satisfiability: Theory, Practice, and Beyond - B.Sc. in Computer Science
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
October 2019 – August 2022
Thesis: Feasible Interpolation as a Lower Bound Technique for Resolution and QBF Proof Systems,
supervised by Prof. Olaf Beyersdorff
Organised Conferences
- Co-Organiser of ParamSAT 2027
A special workshop to honour the scientific contribution of Prof. Stefan Szeider. - Chair of Local Organisation Committee of STACS 2025
Hosted at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena.
Reviewing
ICML 2026, STOC 2026
