Univ.-Prof. Dr. Günter Schmidt

Head of the Research Group:

Operations Research

He studied industrial engineering and computer science at the Technical University of Berlin. In 1983, he was awarded a doctorate in engineering. From 1988 to 1991, he held the Chair of Business Informatics at the European Business School and moved from there to Saarland University, where he held the Chair of Operations Research and Business Informatics (ORBI) from 1991 to 2017. In 1995 he was Visiting Professor at the University of Technology in Sydney and in 1998 at the Computer Science Institute ICSI at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2012 he has been Honorary Research Associate at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.