Maike Buchin is a German computer scientist specializing in

computational geometry Computational geometry is a branch of computer science devoted to the study of algorithms which can be stated in terms of geometry. Some purely geometrical problems arise out of the study of computational geometric algorithms, and such problems ar ...

, and in particular on the analysis of similarities and clustering of geometric trajectory data. She is a professor at

Ruhr University Bochum The Ruhr University Bochum (, ) is a public research university located in the southern hills of the central Ruhr area, Bochum, Germany. It was founded in 1962 as the first new public university in Germany after World War II. Instruction began in ...

, and head of the chair in theoretical computer science there.

Education and career

Buchin earned a diploma in mathematics from the

University of Münster The University of Münster (german: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, WWU) is a public university, public research university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. With more than 43,000 students and over ...

in 2003, and completed her Ph.D. in computer science from the

Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...

in 2007. Her dissertation, ''On the Computability of the Fréchet Distance between Triangulated Surfaces'', was supervised by

Helmut Alt Helmut Alt (born 1950) is a German computer scientist whose research concerns graph algorithms and computational geometry. He is known for his work on matching geometric shapes, including methods for efficiently computing the Fréchet distance be ...

. After postdoctoral research in the Netherlands at

Utrecht University Utrecht University (UU; nl, Universiteit Utrecht, formerly ''Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht'') is a public research university in Utrecht, Netherlands. Established , it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. In 2018, it had an enrollme ...

and the

Eindhoven University of Technology The Eindhoven University of Technology ( nl, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven), abbr. TU/e, is a public technical university in the Netherlands, located in the city of Eindhoven. In 2020–21, around 14,000 students were enrolled in its BSc a ...

, she became an assistant professor at Eindhoven in 2011, and moved to Ruhr University Bochum as a junior professor in 2013. She became full professor in 2019.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Buchin, Maike Year of birth missing (living people) Living people German computer scientists German women computer scientists Researchers in geometric algorithms University of Münster alumni Free University of Berlin alumni Academic staff of Ruhr University Bochum