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Dr. Olaf Parczyk is a research assistant at the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB) in the Interactive Optimization and Learning Laboratory under Sebastian Pokutta. In the winter term 2024/25, he served as a substitute professor at Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin) in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. Previously, he was a Math+ Postdoc at FU Berlin, a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics funded by a DFG fellowship (Grant PA 3513/1-1), and a postdoctoral researcher at TU Ilmenau. He earned his Ph.D. at Goethe University Frankfurt, supervised by Yury Person.
- Education:
- Bachelor's in Mathematics, Freie Universität Berlin (2013)
- Master's in Mathematics, Freie Universität Berlin (2014)
- Ph.D. in Mathematics, Goethe University Frankfurt (2017)
Olaf's research lies at the intersection of probabilistic and extremal combinatorics, Ramsey theory, and machine learning. He focuses on embedding problems for graphs and hypergraphs, particularly those involving randomness. His work includes advancements in Ramsey-type problems, Hamiltonian cycles, and universality in sparse graphs.
Recent publications highlight his contributions to Dirac-type theorems for graphs of bounded bandwidth, Ramsey multiplicity bounds, and resilience properties in hypergraphs. He has also explored applications in group testing and positional games under random perturbations.
- Key Awards:
- DFG Fellowship (Grant PA 3513/1-1)
Olaf has supervised multiple theses, including ongoing Master's students Eva Schinzel and Niall Smith, and Bachelor's student Pascal Weihnhart (2025). He has taught courses in discrete mathematics, probability theory, and seminars on random graphs and extremal combinatorics at FU Berlin and TU Ilmenau.
