Curriculum Vitae

• Diplom (Mathematics), RWTH Aachen (1973)
• Dr. rer. nat. (Mathematics), RWTH Aachen (1975)
• Habilitation (Mathematics), RWTH Aachen (1982)

• Research Assistant, RWTH Aachen (1973-1977)
• Assistant Professor, RWTH Aachen (1977-1984)
• Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Universität Hildesheim (1984-1986)
• Associate Professor of Operations Research, Universität Bonn (1986-1987)
• Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technische Universität Berlin (1987-2016, Professor emeritus since 2016)
• Member of the Board of Directors of the Beijing Institute for Scientific and Engineering Computing (since 2016)

• Member of the Editorial Board of Scientific Journals
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics, since 1984
  • Journal of Scheduling, 199-2010
  • Management Science, 2000-2002
  • Mathematical Methods of Operations Research (MMOR), since 1987
  • Operations Research, Associate Editor 1991-1996, Area Editor Optimization 2000-2002
  • ORDER, A Journal on Ordered Sets and its Applications, 1990-2000
  • SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 199-2010

• Member of the Editorial Board of Book Series
  • SIAM Monographs on Discrete Mathematics and Applications, since 1997
  • Mathematische Grundlagen der Informatik, Vieweg Verlag, 199-2008

Conferences

• Organizer of the International Conference on Operations Research (OR'94), Berlin, August 30 - September 2, 1994
• Chair local arrangements of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM'98), Berlin, August 18 - 27, 1998

Workshops

• Organizer of the 16th and 23rd Workshops on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science WG'90 and WG'97, Berlin, June 1990 and 1997
• Coorganizer of the Dagstuhl Seminars on
  • "Theory and Practice of Physical Design of VLSI Systems", 1991
  • "Algorithms for Optimization with Incomplete Information", 2005
  • "Scheduling", 2008
  • "Models and Algorithms for Optimization in Logistics", 2009
  • "Scheduling", 2010

• Coorganizer of the First Workshop on "Models and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling Problems" (MAPSP'03), Villa Vigoni, 2003
• Coorganizer of the Oberwolfach Conferences on
  • "Algorithmic Methods in Discrete Mathematics", 1993
  • "Combinatorial Optimization", 2002

• Program Committee Member of several WGs, SORs, ESAs, IPCOs, MISTAs, MAPSPs, and of COCOA 2008, OPODIS 2008, ALENEX 2011
• Program Committee Chair of the 10th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA '02), Design and Analysis Track, Rome, 2002
• Program Committee Chair of the "10th Workshop on Models and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling Problems (MAPSP 2011)", Nymburk, 2011

• President of the Gesellschaft für Mathematik, Ökonomie und Operations Research (1994 - 1996)
• Department Chair (1993 - 1995)
• Chair of the Executive Committee of the Mathematical Programming Society (now Mathematical Optimization Society, 1992 - 1995)
• Director of the Institute of Mathematics (2001 - 2003)
• President of the Mathematical Programming Society (now Mathematical Optimization Society, 2004 - 2007)
• Member of the Research Training Groups (Graduiertenkollegs)
  • Algorithmische Diskrete Mathematik, 1990-1998
  • Combinatorics, Geometry, and Computation, 1999-2005
  • Stochastic Modelling and Quantitative Analysis of Complex Systems in Engineering (MAGSI), 1999-2005
  • Methods for Discrete Structures, since 2006

• Initiative member of the DFG Priority Programs (DFG Schwerpunktprogramme)
  • Effiziente Algorithmen für diskrete Probleme und ihre Anwendungen, 1995-2000
  • Algorithmik großer und komplexer Netzwerke, 2001-2007
  • Algorithm Engineering, 2007-2013

• Member of the BMBF Research Clusters (BMBF Förderprogramme)
  • Mathematische Verfahren zur Lösung von Problemstellungen in Industrie und Wirtschaft, 1997-2000
  • Neue Mathematische Verfahren in Industrie und Dienstleistungen, 2000-2003
  • Mathematik für Innovationen in Industrie und Dienstleistungen, 2004-2007
  • Mathematik für Innovationen in Industrie- und Dienstleistungen, 2007-2010

• Member of the DFG Research Center Matheon "Mathematics for Key Technologies", Scientist in Charge of the Application Area "Traffic and Communication Networks"