Curriculum Vitae
Personal Data
born June, 29th 1965, Munich,
married to Simone Weismantel, two sons.
Education
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1971 - 1972
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Elemantary School (Volksschule) in Gemünden a. Main, Bavaria.
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1972 - 1975
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Elemantary School (Volksschule) in Miltenberg, Bavaria.
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1975 - 1984
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High School (Johannes-Butzbach-Gymnasium) in Miltenberg
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29.06.1984
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High school diploma (Abitur)
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1984 - 1988
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Student of Mathematics and Economics (Wirtschaftsmathematik) at the University of Augsburg.
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22.12.1988
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Degree "Diplom Wirtschaftsmathematiker"
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02.07.1992
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Ph.D. (Mathematics) at the Technische Universität Berlin.
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22.11.1995
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Habilitation in Mathematics at the Technische Universität Berlin.
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Professional Activities
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1989 - 1991
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Research Assistant at the Institute for Applied Mathematics II at the University of Augsburg.
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1.9.91 - 31.12.94
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Scientific employee at the Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum Berlin (ZIB), Department for Combinatorial Optimization.
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1.1.95 - 30.9.97
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Associate head of the Department Combinatorial Optimization at ZIB.
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1.10.97 - 12.5.98
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Substitute Professor at the University of Magdeburg.
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13.5.98 - 30.4.2010
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Professor (C4) for Discrete Optimization at the University of Magdeburg.
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since 1.5.2010
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Professor at the Institute for Operations Research, ETH Zurich
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since 15.9.2011
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Head of the Institute for Operations Research, ETH Zurich
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Academic Awards and Special Positions
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06/1993
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Carl-Ramsauer Preis 93 for the Ph.D. thesis "Plazieren von Zellen: Theorie und Lösung eines quadratischen 0/1 Optimierungsproblems".
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03/1997
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Gerhard Hess-Prize of the German Science Foundation.
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01/1998
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Offer of professorships (C4) "Mathematical Optimization" at the University of Magdeburg and "Discrete Mathematics" at the University of Trier.
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04-06/1998
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CORE post-doc fellowship, University Louvain la Neuve, Belgium.
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07/2002 - 12/2009
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Chair of DFG Research Group "Methods from Discrete Mathematics for the Synthesis and Control of Chemical Processes".
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11/2003
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Offer of professorship (C4) "Discrete Mathematics" at the University of Dortmund.
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2004 - 2008
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Coordinator of the EU network "Algorithmic Discrete Optimization", ADONET-504438.
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06/2004
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Offer of professorship (C4) "Wirtschaftsmathematik" at the University of Bayreuth.
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11/2004
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Otto-von-Guericke Research Award 2004
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since 01/2007
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Chair of the Research Center "Dynamische Systeme in Biomedizin und Prozesstechnik" of the University of Magdeburg.
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06/2007
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IBM-Faculty Award 2007
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06/2010
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IBM-Faculty Award 2010
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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 (since 01/2004)
- Associate Editor of Mathematical Programming (since 04/2004)
- Associate Editor of Computing (since 06/2008)
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, EPFL Lausanne, Fields Institute Toronto, Columbia University New York, University of Tokyo, IBM Research Yorktown Heights, IMA in Minneapolis, Universität Klagenfurt, and the ETH in Zürich and Lausanne.
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1.3.94 - 1.6.94
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CORE, Louvain la Neuve (Belgium)
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1.4.96 - 1.6.96
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CORE, Louvain la Neuve (Belgium)
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1.2.01 - 23.3.01
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visiting professor at IASI, Rome (Italy)
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1.8.01 - 15.12.01
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visiting professor at MIT, Cambridge (USA)
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1.7.04 - 31.7.04
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visiting professor at IASI, Rome (Italy)
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1.8.06 - 31.8.06
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visiting professor at EPFL, Lausanne (Switzerland)
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