About me

I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Operations Analytics at the School of Business and Economics of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. I am also the current program director of the MSc program in Transport & Supply Chain Management, VU Amsterdam.

I received my PhD (Dr. techn.) in Computer Science from the Vienna University of Technology in 2010 and my habilitation (venia docendi) in Operations Research from the University of Vienna in 2016. Since 2022, I also hold the ius promovendi from the School of Business and Economics, VU Amsterdam.

Before joining VU Amsterdam, I was employed as a fixed term Assistant Professor (University Assistant) at the University of Vienna (Department of Statistics and Operations Research). Prior to that I was a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at Vienna University of Technology (Algorithms and Data Structures Group), University of Vienna (Department of Statistics and Operations Research) and Université libre de Bruxelles (Graphs and Mathematical Optimization Group).

I am an Associate Editor of the INFORMS Journal on Computing (Area: Nework Optimization), Omega (Area: Production Management, Scheduling and Logistics), and Networks and a Member of Council of the INFORMS Section on Telecommunication and Network Analytics. I am also regularly involved in program committes of scientific conferences such as, e.g., INOC 2024, ISCO 2024, INOC 2022, EURO 2019, INOC 2019, or the TSL Workshop 2019.

Research

My main research interests include combinatorial optimization and operations research (exact and heuristic techniques). I develop and apply methods based on mixed integer programming to solve challenging problems arising in network design, transportation, logistics, social network analysis, or telecommunication. My research outcomes have been published in major international journals such as Mathematical Programming, Mathematics of Operations Research, Transportation Science, or Transportation Research B.