Laura Vargas Koch

Laura Vargas Koch
Personal information
NationalityGerman
Born (1990-06-29) 29 June 1990 (age 34)
OccupationJudoka
Websitesites.google.com/view/lvargaskoch
Sport
Country Germany
SportJudo
Weight class–70 kg
Achievements and titles
Olympic Games (2016)
World Champ. (2013)
European Champ. (2014, 2015)
Medal record
Women's judo
Representing  Germany
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de Janeiro ‍–‍70 kg
World Championships
2013 Rio de Janeiro ‍–‍70 kg
2014 Chelyabinsk Women's team
European Games
2015 Baku ‍–‍70 kg
2015 Baku Women's team
European Championships
2018 Yekaterinburg Mixed team
2014 Montpellier ‍–‍70 kg
2013 Budapest ‍–‍70 kg
2013 Budapest Women's team
IJF Grand Slam
2014 Abu Dhabi ‍–‍70 kg
2015 Abu Dhabi ‍–‍70 kg
2013 Baku ‍–‍70 kg
2015 Paris ‍–‍70 kg
2013 Paris ‍–‍70 kg
2013 Moscow ‍–‍70 kg
2014 Tokyo ‍–‍70 kg
IJF Grand Prix
2013 Rijeka ‍–‍70 kg
2014 Samsun ‍–‍70 kg
2014 Havana ‍–‍70 kg
2014 Tashkent ‍–‍70 kg
2013 Düsseldorf ‍–‍70 kg
2014 Jeju ‍–‍70 kg
2016 Budapest ‍–‍70 kg
2019 Tbilisi ‍–‍70 kg
2012 Qingdao ‍–‍70 kg
2014 Astana ‍–‍70 kg
2015 Budapest ‍–‍70 kg
2015 Jeju ‍–‍70 kg
2016 Düsseldorf ‍–‍70 kg
2017 The Hague ‍–‍70 kg
2019 Marrakesh ‍–‍70 kg
European U23 Championships
2011 Tyumen ‍–‍70 kg
2010 Sarajevo ‍–‍70 kg
Summer Universiade
2011 Shenzhen ‍–‍70 kg
Profile at external databases
IJF2394
JudoInside.com42565
Updated on 24 May 2023

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

  1. ^ "Laura Vargas Koch". judoinside. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ "People". Bonn Mathematics. Retrieved 20 February 2024. "Bonn Junior Fellows". Hausdorff Center for Mathematics. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
  4. ^ "Rio 2016". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 31 August 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  5. ^ Crowley, Jo (23 February 2020). "From Mats to Maths: Laura Vargas Koch Retires". IJF News. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
  6. ^ Laura Vargas Koch at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  7. ^ Koch, Laura Vargas. "About me". Retrieved 20 February 2024.

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