Martin Grötschel#
| Membership Number: | 4610 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.zib.de/groetschel https://praesidenten.bbaw.de/de/063 |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 10/2015 retired (as Professor of TU Berlin)
- 2015 - 2020 President, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW), Berlin, Germany
- 2012 - 2015 President, Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB), Berlin, Germany
- 2011 - 2015 Chair of the Einstein Foundation, Berlin, Germany
- 2007 - 2014 Secretary of the International Mathematical Union (IMU)
- 2002 - 2008 Chair of the DFG Research Center MATHEON "Mathematics for key technologies, Technical University Berlin
- 1991 - 2012 Vice-President, Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB)
- 1991 - 2015 Full Professor of Information Technology, Technische Universität Berlin (TUB), Germany
- 1982 - 1991 Full Professor of Applied Mathematics, University Augsburg, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Discrete mathematics
- Mathematical optimization
- Operations research in telecommunications
- Operations research in transport and logistics
- Operations research in production planning
- Electronic information
- Digital humanities
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Cantor Medal of the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung
- 2018 Honorary Member of the Berliner Mathematische Gesellschaft
- 2017 Member of Academia Europaea
- 2016 Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) for the development of science in the developing countries
- 2015 Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
- 2014 Life Time Award der Stiftung heureka für Umwelt & Mobilität
- 2011 Honorary Doctorate (University of Augsburg)
- 2011 TUM Distinguished Affiliated Professor (Technische Universität München)
- 2011 IBM Faculty Award
- 2010 Medal of Honour, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador
- 2010 SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession
- 2009 Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
- 2008 Honorary Doctorate (Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg)
- 2008 Scientific Award of the Governing Mayor of Berlin
- 2008 Golden Badge of Honor of TU Berlin
- 2007 Honorary Doctorate (Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology - VAST)
- 2006 Honorary Doctorate (University of Karlsruhe)
- 2006 John von Neumann Theory Prize (jointly with L. Lovász and A. Schrijver) awarded by INFORMS
- 2006 Alwin-Walther Medal (awarded by TU Darmstadt in conjunction IGD and ZGDV in Darmstadt)
- 2005 Member of Leopoldina – German National Academy of Sciences
- 2004 EURO Gold Medal 2004 (EURO - The Association of European Operational Research Societies)
- 2003 Member of acatech – German Academy of Science and Engineering
- 1999 Scientific Award (Wissenschaftspreis) of the Gesellschaft für Operations Research
- 1999 Foreign Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), USA
- 1998 Honorary Member of the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung
- 1995 Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW)
- 1995 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- 1991 George B. Dantzig Prize (SIAM and Mathematical Programming Society)
- 1990 Karl Heinz Beckurts-Prize (Karl Heinz Beckurts Foundation)
- 1982 Fulkerson Prize (American Mathematical Society and Mathematical Programming Society)
- 1978 Prize of the University of Bonn for the best dissertation of the preceding academic year
