Head of the Institute Anita Schöbel in Profile

Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Anita Schöbel

born 1969 in Stuttgart

Scientific Career

2003	Habilitation: Customer-oriented Optimization in Public Transportation
1998	Doctoral thesis: Locating Lines and Hyperplanes – Theory and Algorithms
1994	Diploma thesis: Kombinatorische Optimierung in der Tarifplanung im ÖPNV [Combinatorial Optimization in Public Transport Fare Planning]
1988 – 1994	Studies of mathematics with minor in economics at the Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)

Professional Activities

Since 2019	Professor of Applied Mathematics, RPTU Kaiserslautern and Head of Fraunhofer ITWM
Summer 2007	Calls for W3 positions in Wuppertal and Trier.
2004 – 2018	Professor at the Institute for Numerical and Applied Mathematics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (from 2007 W3)
1999 – 2004	Research assistant (C1) at the Department of Mathematics, RPTU Kaiserslautern
1998 – 1999	Head of the working group traffic at Fraunhofer ITWM
1994 – 1998	Scientific assistant at the Department of Mathematics, RPTU Kaiserslautern

Further Information

Profile, Current Lectures and Publication List of Anita Schöbel on the Website of the RPTU Kaiserslautern
Interview 2018: Anita Schöbel on the New Management Function [only available in German]

Press Release

Anita Schöbel Awarded GOR 2023 Science Prize

At this year's annual meeting of the Society for Operations Research (GOR) on 30 August 2023, our Institute Director Prof. Dr. Anita Schöbel received the GOR Science Award. The award is the most important prize awarded by the society and recognises exceptional achievements in the development of the focus »Operations Research«.

Integer optimization
Robust optimization
Optimization of public transport
Geometric optimization methods
Location planning

Selected Projects

Speaker of the BMBF Project SynphOnie
Co-Speaker of the Mathematics Consortium Mathematical Research Data Initiative (MaRDI)
Principal Investigator (PI) of the BMBF Project QuanTUK
Principal Investigator (PI) of the EU Project EASIER

Speaker of the DFG Research Group »2083 on Integrated Transport Planning«
DFG-Project »Multiobjective Robust Optimization«.
»Calculation of Wasserstein Distances« in the Research Training Group 2088
»Multicriteria Robust Optimization« in the Research Training Group 1703
Speaker of the EU-Project OptALI »Optimization and its Applications in Learning and Industry«
DFG-Project »Robust Optimization in SPP1307«
EU-Project ARRIVAL »Algorithms for Robust and Online Railway Optimization«
DisKon: »Delay Management for the German Railway«.

Current Activities, Committees and Posts

since 2023 Member of the Steering Committee of the Max Planck Schools
2023 and 2024 President of the »Association of Euopean Operational Research Societies« (EURO) (since July 2020 »President Elect«)
Speaker of the DFG Research Group 2083 »Integrated Planning in Public Transport«
2019/2020 President of the Society for Operations Research e.V. (GOR)
Member of the Editorial Board of JOTA, OR-Spectrum
Coordinator of the Fraunhofer Competence Network »Quantum Computing«
Speaker of the Fraunhofer Strategic Research Field »Next Generation Computing«
»AI Pilot« for Mobility of Rhineland-Palatinate
Member of the main commission of the WTR of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Senator of the National Research Data Infrastructure

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Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Anita Schöbel

Scientific Career

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Further Information

Anita Schöbel Awarded GOR 2023 Science Prize

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Selected Projects

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