Prof. Dr. Robert Weismantel
Prof. Dr. Robert Weismantel
Full Professor at the Department of Mathematics
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Professor Weismantel’s main research interests are mixed integer linear sets, nonlinear discrete optimization, discrete mathematics in chemical engineering and control, and discrete mathematics in cell and systems biology.
His current research addresses questions in the field of discrete mathematics and optimization. He is particularly interested in topics from integer programming, algorithmic discrete mathematics, and mixed integer and nonlinear optimization.
The second focus is on mathematics for studying questions in cell biology, systems biology, chemical engineering and control theory.
Robert Weismantel has been a Professor of Mathematics (Operations Research) at the Department of Mathematics since 2010. He directs the department’s Operations Research Institute.
He was born in Munich, Germany, in 1965.
Robert Weismantel obtained a diploma (“Diplom-Wirtschaftsmathematiker”) in mathematics and economics (Wirtschaftsmathematik) at the University of Augsburg, Germany, in 1988 before going on to complete a PhD in mathematics at the Technische Universitaet Berlin in 1992. In 1995 Robert Weismantel was made a professor at the same university.
From 1989 to 1991 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Applied Mathematics II at the University of Augsburg, then moved to Berlin to work as a scientific employee at the Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum Berlin’s (ZIB) Department for Combinatorial Optimization from 1991 to 1994. From 1997 to 1998 he was Associate Head of the department. From 1997 to 1998 he was a Substitute Professor at the University of Magdeburg, Germany before he was appointed Professor for Discrete Optimisation at the University of Magdeburg (1998-2010).