Laura Vargas Koch (born 29 June 1990) is a German former judoka and Olympic medalist and computer scientist and applied mathematician. She holds a professorship in combinatorial optimization as Bonn Junior Fellow in the Research Institute for Discrete Mathematics and Hausdorff Center for Mathematics at the University of Bonn.
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. She retired in 2020 after a knee injury.
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. 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.
References
- "Laura Vargas Koch". judoinside. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
- 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 2024-02-20
- "People". Bonn Mathematics. Retrieved 20 February 2024. "Bonn Junior Fellows". Hausdorff Center for Mathematics. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
- "Rio 2016". Rio 2016. 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". 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 AllJudo.net (in French)
- Laura Vargas Koch at Olympics.com
- Laura Vargas Koch at the German Olympic Sports Confederation (in German)
- Laura Vargas Koch at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Laura Vargas Koch at The-Sports.org
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