Megow earned a diploma in mathematical economics from
Technische Universität Berlin in 2002, and completed a doctorate (
Dr. rer. nat.) from the same university in 2006. Her dissertation,
Coping with Incomplete Information in Scheduling, was supervised by Rolf H. Mohring. After working as a researcher and visiting professor at
Technische Universität Berlin, the
Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and the
Technische Universität Darmstadt, she became an assistant professor at the
Technical University of Munich in 2015, and took her present position as professor at the University of Bremen in 2016. ==Recognition==