Robert Weismantel
Professor
Department of Mathematics
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
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).
Research Interest
Mixed integer linear sets; Nonlinear discrete optimization; Discrete mathematics in chemical engineering and control
