Curriculum vitae
Education
1971 - 1972
Elemantary School (Volksschule) in Gemünden a. Main, Bavaria
1972 - 1975
Elemantary School (Volksschule) in Miltenberg, Bavaria
1975 - 1984
High School (Johannes-Butzbach-Gymnasium) in Miltenberg
29.06.1984
High school diploma (Abitur)
1984 - 1988
Student of Mathematics and Economics (Wirtschaftsmathematik) at the University of Augsburg
22.12.1988
Degree "Diplom Wirtschaftsmathematiker"
2.7.1992
Ph.D. (Mathematics) at the Technische Universität Berlin
22.11.1995
Habilitation in Mathematics at the Technische Universität Berlin
Professional activities
1989 - 1991
Research Assistant at the Institute for Applied Mathematics II at the University of Augsburg
1.9.1991 - 31.12.1994
Scientific employee at the Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum Berlin (ZIB), Department for Combinatorial Optimization
1.1.1995 - 30.9.1997
Associate head of the Department Combinatorial Optimization at ZIB
1.10.1997 - 12.5.1998
Substitute Professor at the University of Magdeburg
13.5.1998 - 30.4.2010
Professor (C4) for Discrete Optimization at the University of Magdeburg
since 1.5.2010
Professor at the Institute for Operations Research, ETH Zurich
15.9.2011 - 31.7.2021
Head of the Institute for Operations Research, ETH Zurich
1.8.2017 - 31.1.2019
Deputy Head of Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
since February 2019
Head of Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
Academic awards and special positions
06/1993
Carl-Ramsauer Preis 93 for the Ph.D. thesis "Plazieren von Zellen: Theorie und Lösung eines quadratischen 0/1 Optimierungsproblems"
03/1997
Gerhard Hess-Prize of the German Science Foundation
11/2004
Otto-von-Guericke Research Award 2004
06/2007
IBM-Faculty Award 2007
06/2010
IBM-Faculty Award 2010
08/2010
Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, Hyderabad, India
11/2015
Farkas Prize, The INFORMS Optimization Society
06/2017
Humboldt Research Award, The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Editorial activities
Since 1999 I have been acting as a referee for the German Science Foundation, the NSF (USA) and MITACS (Canada) in different comissions. I refereed articles for all relevant journals in Discrete Optimization in the past years.
- Associate Editor of Management Science (1996 - 2003)
- Book review Editor of OPTIMA, the newsletter of the Mathematical Programming Society (1997 - 2001)
- Associate Editor of Mathematical Methods of Operations Research (since 07/1999)
- Associate Editor of Discrete Optimization (2004 - 2008)
- Associate Editor of Mathematical Programming (2004 - 2010)
- Associate Editor of Computing (2008 - 2009)
- Co-Editor of Mathematical Programming (since 09/2010)
Academic visits
Since 1997 I visited many universities for a short term of upto 3 weeks. This includes TU Eindhoven, University of Utrecht, TU Graz, Université Fourier de Grenoble, MIT Cambridge, IASI Roma, CORE Louvain la Neuve, CMU Pittsburgh, EPF Lausanne, Fields Institute Toronto, Columbia University New York, University of Tokyo, IBM Research Yorktown Heights, IMA in Minneapolis, Universität Klagenfurt, and the ETH in Zurich and Lausanne.
1.3. - 1.6.1994
CORE, Louvain la Neuve (Belgium)
1.4. - 1.6.1996
CORE, Louvain la Neuve (Belgium)
1.2. - 23.3.2001
visiting professor at IASI, Rome (Italy)
1.8. - 15.12.2001
visiting professor at MIT, Cambridge (USA)
1.7. - 31.7.2004
visiting professor at IASI, Rome (Italy)
1.8. - 31.8.2006
visiting professor at EPF, Lausanne (Switzerland)
1.2. - 31.3.2017
visiting professor at EPF, Lausanne (Switzerland)
1.4. - 15.8.2017
visiting professor at TU, Berlin (Germany)