We moved to Uni Erlangen.

See here.

Research interests:

• Mixed Integer Linear Programming
• Traffic optimization problems in general
• Specifically optimization problems dealing with railways

Projects:

• Optimization and Simulation of Duty Rosters for Railway Crews (together with DB Regio AG)
• Optimizing Aircraft Rotation in Passenger Transport (together with ECAD and Lufthansa Direct Services)
• Automated Generation of optimal Blocking Plans in Rail Freight Transport (PhD Thesis)
  
• Optimizing Locomotive Schedules in Rail Freight Transport (Diploma Thesis)

Publications:

Journals:

• Scheduling Locomotives and Car Transfers in Freight Transport (together with A. Fügenschuh, A. Huck, A. Martin and Z. Yuan), TRANSPORTATION SCIENCE, 2008, 42: 478-491

Proceedings:

• Locomotive and Wagon Scheduling in Freight Transport (together with A. Fügenschuh, A. Huck and A. Martin). ATMOS 2006 - 6th Workshop on Algorithmic Methods and Models for Optimization of Railways, 2006, 06002
• Iterated Greedy Algorithms for a Real-World Cyclic Train Scheduling Problem (together with Z. Yuan,  A. Fügenschuh, P. Balaprakash, T. Stützle and M.Schoch). HM '08: Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics, 2008, 102-116

Talks:

• Routing Cars In Rail Freight Transport at Operations Research 2008, Augsburg (Germany)
• A new Model for Routing Cars in Rail Freight Service at EURO 2009, Bonn (Germany)
• Modelling the Routing of Cars in Rail Freight Service at ISMP 2009, Chicago (USA)
• Consolidating Car Routes: Towards Optimal Train Utilization in Rail Freight Service at ECMI 2010, Wuppertal (Germany)