I am an associate professor at the IT University of Copenhagen, working in the Algorithms group.

My research interests revolve around structural graph theory, algorithms and parameterized complexity. I am also interested in algorithmic problems arising in computational social choice.

I was previously an assistant professor at ITU (2022 - 2024). Before coming to Denmark, I was a postdoc (2020 - 2021) and a PhD student (2016 - 2019) at the University of Bergen. I was fortunate to have Pinar Heggernes as my supervisor.

Research

• Here is a list of my publications.
• Program committee work: LAGOS 2025, SOSA 2025, CIAC 2025, ISAAC 2024, IPEC 2024, FSTTCS 2023, WG 2023, LAGOS 2023, ESA 2021.
• Research Grant: DFF Inge Lehmann (PI, 2023 - 2027)
• Invited Talks: GROW 2024, GWP@ICALP 2022.
• Current PhD student: Amir Nikabadi

Teaching

• Introduction to Programming (ITU, Fall 2022 - 2025)
• Advanced Algorithms (ITU, Fall 2022 - 2025)
• INF234 Algorithms (University of Bergen, Fall 2020)

Contact

Feel free to write to me at
  palt [at] itu.dk

Postal address:
IT University of Copenhagen
Rued Langgaards Vej 7
DK-2300 København S, Denmark