BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Professor Martin Grötschel

Professor Grötschel serves as Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Technical University of Berlin. He also serves as Vice President of the Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik, Berlin (ZIB). He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Bonn in 1977, and received his Masters in 1973, and Bachelors in 1971 from the Unibersity of Bochum.

His research interest includes optimization, discrete mathematics, and operations research applications of mathematics in: telecommunication, VLSI design, transportation, logistics and manufacturing.

Professor Grötschel received numerous awards including:

Prize of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Programming Society, IBM Prize, and Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Engineering.

He also served in these activities:

President of the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV), several activities in national und international scientific societies (e.g. MPS, SIAM, GMÖOR) and Associate editor of 9 scientific journals.