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Research Interests

My research interests lie in developing exact and heuristic models and algorithms to solve combinatorial optimizazion problems, taking uncertainty and reliability issues into account. More specifically, I focus on large-scale logistics problems, including facility location and network design, sales districting, and service scheduling, some of them in collaboration with companies. On a theoretical side, I am interested in combining different disciplines from mathematics and computer science, like combinatorial optimization, complexity theory, algorithmic design, computational geometry, and calculus, to obtain structural results and exact solution approaches, e.g., for facility location problems with spatially distributed demand.

Research Groups

• Operational Research and Optimization

Professional Activities

Board member of the EURO Working Group on Locational Analysis (EWGLA).

Previous Employment

Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics (ITWM), Department of Optimization, 2000-2003.

Saarland University, Department of Law & Business Administration, 2003-2009.

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Department of Economics and Management, 2009-2010, 2011, 2014-2015

Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, 2010-2011.

Clausthal University of Technology, Faculty of Mathematics/Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering, 2011-2014.

Education

Habilitation Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (2012)

PhD Saarland University (2006)

Diploma Technical University of Kaiserslautern (2000)

Publications

• Personal webpage with publications