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 participate 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 “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
• Our former master's student Marta Piperno has won the Master Thesis Award from the German Operations Research Society (GOR).  She received the award during the opening ceremony of the 2025 Annual Meeting of the GOR.  She presented her work on stochastic online scheduling during the award session.  Marta is now a Mathematical Consultant at the Smith Institute in Oxford, UK.
• Our PhD student Felix Buld presented his research on “Scheduling with Testing: Competitive Algorithms for Minimizing the Total Weighted Completion Time in the Adversarial Model” at IJTCS-FAW 2025.
• The paper "Flow shops with reentry: The total weighted completion time objective" by our PhD students Maximilian von Aspern and Felix Buld (together with Nicklas Klein and Michael Pinedo) has been published in the Journal of Scheduling.
• Our PhD student Leander Schnaars has presented his research on "3.415-Approximation for Coflow Scheduling via Iterated Rounding" at ICALP 2025. [arXiv]

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