Laura Vargas Koch
Laura Vargas Koch (born 29 June 1990) is a German former judoka and Olympic medalist[1][2] and computer scientist and applied mathematician.[3] She is University Professor at RWTH Aachen University where she heads the chair of algorithmic game theory and discrete mathematics.[4]
Judo competition
Vargas Koch competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in the women's 70 kg division. She won a bronze medal by defeating María Bernabéu of Spain in the bronze medal match.[5] She retired in 2020 after a knee injury.[6]
Academic career
She completed a Ph.D. in 2020 at RWTH Aachen University with the dissertation Competitive variants of discrete and continuous flows over time supervised by Britta Peis.[7] Her research concerns algorithmic game theory applied to problems including traffic flow and network routing. She took a professorship at the University of Bonn after postdoctoral research with Rico Zenklusen at ETH Zurich and with José Correa at the Center for Mathematical Modeling of the University of Chile,[8] before returning to RWTH Aachen as a professor.[4]
References
- ^ "Laura Vargas Koch". judoinside. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Laura Vargas Koch". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
- ^ To verify the connection between these two identities, see e.g. "Award: Silver for Laura Vargas Koch at the Judo Grand Prix in Tiflis" from the noticeboard of the RWTH Aachen research group UnRAVeL – UNcertainty and Randomness in Algorithms, VErification and Logic, retrieved 20 February 2024
- ^ a b "Laura Vargas Koch". Algorithmic Game Theory and Discrete Mathematics Teaching and Research Unit. RWTH Aachen University. Retrieved 3 January 2026.
- ^ "Women -70 kg". Rio 2016 Olympics. Archived from the original on 31 August 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
- ^ Crowley, Jo (23 February 2020). "From Mats to Maths: Laura Vargas Koch Retires". IJF News. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
- ^ Laura Vargas Koch at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Koch, Laura Vargas. "About me". sites.google.com. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
External links
Media related to Laura Vargas Koch at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
- Laura Vargas Koch at the International Judo Federation
- Laura Vargas Koch at JudoInside.com
- Laura Vargas Koch at Olympics.com
- Laura Vargas Koch at the German Olympic Sports Confederation (in German)
- Laura Vargas Koch at Olympedia
- Laura Vargas Koch at InterSportStats
- Laura Vargas Koch at The-Sports.org