Academic milestones and positions

1995 – present	Full Professor in Business Administration, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
1993 – 1995	Full Professor in Business Administration and Vice Dean, OvG University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
1989 – 1993	Associate Professor (Tenure) in Operations Research Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
1987	Habilitation (Venia Docendi) in Operations Research Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
1983 – 1988	Assistant Professor for Operations Research, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
1982	Post Doctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
1981	Research Assistant at the Institute for Operations Research, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
1980	PhD (Dr.techn.) in Operations Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
1980	System Engineer Trainee IBM Austria, Vienna, Austria

Main research areas and results

Research area	Modelling in production, operations management, and transportation
Important results	Various applications in production, scheduling, lot sizing, vehicle routing, location, etc. Developing efficient solution methods (mainly metaheuristics, but also exact methods) and deriving managerial implications
Research area	Theory and design of metaheuristic algorithms
Important results	First convergence proof for genetic algorithms, development of an efficient variant of ant colony optimization, box splitting for multi-objective combinatorial optimization
Research area	Dynamic models of the firm and optimal control
Important results	Contributions to the theory (e.g. necessary conditions for state constraints, monotonicity theorem) and applications of optimal control to various firm problems – derivation of managerial implications

10 Most important publications

2019	Leveraging single-objective heuristics to solve bi-objective problems: Heuristic Box Splitting and its application to vehicle routing. Networks. an international Journal, 73 (4), p. 382-400. with P. Matl, T. Vidal, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/net.21876
2018	The delivery problem: optimizing hit rates in e-commerce deliveries, Transportation Research Part B, 117 A (November) 455-472 with A. Florio, D. Feillet, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2018.09.011
2017	Possible market entry of a firm with an additive manufacturing technology. International Journal of Production Economics 194,190-199, with P.M. Kort, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2017.06.013
2016	A bi-objective home care scheduling problem: Analyzing the trade-off between costs and client inconvenience, European Journal of Operational Research 248 (2, January) 428–443, with K. Braekers, S.N. Parragh, F. Tricoire, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2015.07.028
2015	The generalized consistent vehicle routing problem, Transportation Science 49 (4), 796-816, with Attila A. Kovacs, Bruce L. Golden, Sophie N. Parragh, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1287/trsc.2014.0529
1999	An Improved Ant System Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem, Annals of Operations Research, 89, 319–328 (1180 citations) with B. Bullnheimer, C. Strauss, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018940026670
1994	Dynamic optimal control models in advertising: recent developments, Management Science 40 (2) 195-226 (436 citations), with G. Feichtinger, S.P. Sethi, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.40.2.195
1986	Optimale Kontrolle ökonomischer Prozesse: Anwendungen des Maximumprinzips in den Wirtschaftswisssenschaften, de Gruyter, Berlin (600 citations), with G., Feichtinger, ISBN 978-3-11-010432-5

Additional research achievements

2022	Invited Opening Keynote Verolog Hamburg
2021	GOR Science Award
2021	Invited Opening Keynote OR Bonn
2019/2	Invited Keynote, ORBEL 33 – 33rd conference of the Belgian Operational Research Society, Hasselt, Belgium
2018/9	Invited Closing Keynote, OR2018 – the annual international conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR), co-organized with the Belgian Operational Research Society, Brussels, Belgium
2016/12	Invited Keynote, ICAMIS – International Conference on Applied Mechanics and Industrial Systems, Muscat, Oman
2014-2023	Treasurer, Member of the Administrative board, International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS)
2011-2012	Member of executive board, VHB – German Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e.V.

Ad hoc referee for research funding institutions such as NSF, NSERC, FWO, FNRS, DFG, for Universities in Belgium, England, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Swizzerland, Turkey, UAE, US, and for various leading journals

Committee member of the EURO excellence in practice award (2012), the EURO doctoral dissertation (2015, 2016, Chair 2018), and the INFORMS – TSL Lifetime Award (2013)

Senior Extramural Fellow of the Center for Economic Research (CentER), University of Tilburg: Associate Editor: Transportation Science, OR Perspectives

Editorial Board: EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics, BuR – Business Research, Central European Journal of Operations Research, Swarm Intelligence)

Conferences organized

MIC2005 „Vienna“ 6th Metaheuristics International Conference Vienna, August 22-26, 2005

Eighth Viennese Workshop on Optimal Control, Dynamic Games and Nonlinear Dynamics Vienna, May 14-16, 2003

Seventh Viennese Workshop on Optimal Control, Dynamic Games and Nonlinear Dynamics Vienna, May 24-26, 2000

Sixth Viennese Workshop on Optimal Control, Dynamic Games, Nonlinear Dynamics and Adaptive Systems Vienna, May 21-23, 1997

Journal Editor

Central European Journal of Operations Research – Member of Editorial Board

OR-Spektrum Member of Editorial Board from 1997 – 2002, Member of the Advisory Board since 2003

Optimal Control, Applications and Methods: Subject Editor