Chair of Operations Management

We are welcoming you at the Chair of Operations Management, led by Prof. Dr. Rainer Kolisch. The teaching and research at the chair is centering on the application of Operations Research methods for analyzing and optimizing Operations Management problems. Current research topics are Scheduling, Routing, Health Care Operations, Airport Operations, Project Scheduling and Management, as well as Make-to-Order and Engineer-to-Order Operations.

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Thomas Hagspihl completes his PhD thesis successfully

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Thomas Hagspihl has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Essays on Optimization of Airport Infrastructure”. In his thesis, Thomas addressed three airport infrastructure planning problem: The location for vertiports, where vertical take-off and landing aircraft can provide a shuttle service to the airport, optimal positions and orientations of contact gates along the facade of a given terminal, and the dynamic configuration of contact gates with passenger boarding bridges. The committee, which consisted of Stefan Minner (chair), Rainer Kolisch, and Florian Jaehn (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität) congratulated Thomas on his achievement and wished him all the best for this future career. Currently, Thomas is research associate at Bauhaus Luftfahrt, an aviation think tank located in Munich.