Gerhard J. Woeginger

Gerhard J. Woeginger (31 May 1964 – 1 April 2022) was an Austrian mathematician and computer scientist who worked in Germany as a professor at RWTH Aachen University, where he chaired the algorithms and complexity group in the department of computer science.

He then moved to the University of Twente from 2001 to 2004, to TU Eindhoven,[2] from 2004 to 2016, and finally to RWTH Aachen in 2016.

In 1996, Woeginger won the Start-Preis, the highest Austrian award for scientists under the age of 35.

[2] Until September 2016, Woeginger maintained a list of attempts to settle the P versus NP problem on his website.

[6][7] As of its last update, the list tallied 116 attempts dating back to 1986 to settle the question in various ways.