[1] Her research is in the areas of algorithm engineering, graph drawing and combinatorial optimization.
Mutzel earned a diploma in 1990 from the University of Augsburg, in mathematics with computer science.
She then earned a doctorate in computer science from the University of Cologne in 1994 under the supervision of Michael Jünger,[2][3] and her habilitation in 1999 from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics.
[9] Mutzel's other contributions include works on the Ising model,[10] steganography,[11] and Steiner trees.
[12] In 2012, she was program committee co-chair of the Meeting on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX).