| Petra Mutzel | |
| Nationality: | German |
| Fields: | Computer science |
| Workplaces: | University of Bonn |
| Alma Mater: | University of Cologne |
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| Doctoral Advisor: | Michael Jünger |
Petra Mutzel is a German computer scientist, a University Professor of computer science at the University of Bonn.[1] Her research is in the areas of algorithm engineering, graph drawing and combinatorial optimization.
Mutzel earned a diploma in 1990 from the University of Augsburg, in mathematics with computer science. She then earned a doctorate in computer science from the University of Cologne in 1994 under the supervision of Michael Jünger,[2] and her habilitation in 1999 from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. She held a professorship at the Vienna University of Technology beginning in 1999, moving to the Technical University of Dortmund in 2004 and then to the University of Bonn in 2019.[3]
In graph drawing, Mutzel has contributed in work on planarization, crossing minimization in layered graph drawing, and SPQR trees, and co-edited a book on graph drawing. She was both the program chair and organizational chair of the 9th International Symposium on Graph Drawing, in Vienna in 2001.[4]
Mutzel's other contributions include works on the Ising model, steganography, and Steiner trees. In 2012, she was program committee co-chair of the Meeting on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX).[5]