Operations Research at TUM

The Operations Research (OR) group at the Technical University of Munich comprises a multinational team of researchers dedicated to advancing mathematical optimization, algorithmic game theory, mechanism design, and artificial intelligence. Led by Alexander von Humboldt-Professor Andreas S. Schulz, the group collaborates with colleagues in the Mathematics and Computer Science Departments as well as the School of Management at TUM. The OR group maintains global partnerships with colleagues from institutions such as Columbia University, Cornell University, KU Leuven, MIT, NYU, UBC, ULB, among others. Additionally, many members actively participated in the DFG Graduiertenkolleg “Advanced Optimization in a Networked Economy (AdONE)".

Opportunities

• We are constantly interested in hiring outstanding PhD students and postdocs in Math, OM, OR, TCS, AGT, AI or ML. If you are interested, please send your application to or@tum.de.

News

• The paper “Stability in Combinatorial Markets with Side Payments” by our PhD students Chiara Vanoli and Alexander Grosz has been accepted to SAGT 2026.
• The paper “Graph Scheduling with Group Completion Times” by our PhD student Leander Schnaars (together with Lars Rohwedder) has been accepted to ESA 2026.
• Our PhD students Chiara Vanoli and Alexander Grosz have successfully submitted their poster “Stability in Combinatorial Markets with Side Payments” to EC 2026.
• The paper "Block Stacking, Airplane Refueling, and Robust Appointment Scheduling" by Simon Gmeiner and Andreas S. Schulz has appeared in The American Mathematical Monthly.
• On May 6, 2026, José Correa, a former PhD student of Andreas S. Schulz, was inducted into the Chilean Academy of Sciences.
• Professor Schulz’s paper Selfish Routing in Capacitated Networks (with his former PhD students José Correa and Nicolas Stier-Moses) was selected as one of 50 papers—one for each year—to represent the history of the INFORMS journal Mathematics of Operations Research on its 50th anniversary.
  https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/epdf/10.1287/moor.2026.50th.v51.n1
• The paper “Robust Appointment Scheduling with Waiting Time Guarantees” by Carolin Bauerhenne, Rainer Kolisch, and Andreas S. Schulz has been published in the INFORMS Journal “Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.” https://doi.org/10.1287/msom.2024.0852

See also our News Archive.

Our Network

• Deutsche Mathematiker Vereinigung (DMV)
• DFG Research Training Group AdONE
• EuroTeQ Engineering University
• Gesellschaft für Operations Research (GOR)
• Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Mathematical Optimization Society
• TUM Academic Department of Operations & Technology
• TUM Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)
• TUM Research Group Discrete Optimization
• TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology
• TUM School of Management