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I am Fernando Sánchez Villaamil, a former PhD candidate at the Theo­re­ti­cal Com­pu­ter Scien­ce chair at RWTH Aachen University. I am originally from the Canary Islands (Spain). While in Spain I attended a German school. With my German highschool degree in hand, I came to Germany in 2005 for my studies also at RWTH Aachen University. After an internship in the USA at Siemens working in Data Mining I came back to Aachen to pursue my PhD under my advisor Peter Rossmanith. I successfully finished my PhD in 2017. I have since left academia.

I mainly worked on Fixed Parameter Tractability, mostly on Algorithm Design for graph problems. I also dabbled in Complex Networks, try­ing to apply deep mathematical results from graph theory to aid their analysis and the design of new algorithms.

I paid for my studies by assisting at teaching and programming. I've worked extensively with Java, Python and C and I've written non-trivial code in C++, JavaScript, Haskell and Elisp. I am mainly comfortable using Linux. I'm known to solve this or that problem with a quick 150 characters shell command.

In my free time I listen to more music than is healthy, read a few books, watch movies and conjure pseudo-deep philosophies.

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