Funded Projects
- Performance analysis and capacity optimization for retrial queues with generally distributed retrial times (Funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e. V. with Cooperation Partner Prof. Dr. Benjamin Legros) (2023 – 2026)
- Performance analysis and capacity planning for stochastic systems with cut-off service levels (Funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e. V. in Collaboration with Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) (2020 – 2022)
- Productive 4.0 – Analytical approaches for performance evaluation and optimization of stochastic and dynamic processes in digital production (Funded by European Union and Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung in Collaboration with over 100 academic and business partners. (2017 – 2020)
- Scheduling in multi-stage systems with time-dependent demand (Funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e. V. in Collaboration with Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) (2018 – 2020)
- Integrated maintenance and production scheduling of multipurpose process plants (Funded by ABB AG) (2015 – 2016)
Awards
Südwestmetall Förderpreis 2016, awarded by the Baden-Wuerttemberg Employers’ Association of the Metal and Electrical Industry, for the Ph.d. thesis “Analysis of buffer allocations in time-dependent and stochastic flow lines” (Justus Arne Schwarz)
GOR Bachelor price 2015 for the Bachelor thesis “Transient Analysis of Flow Production Lines” (Florian Wedel)
Camelot Management Consultants Award 2013 for the Master's thesis “Simultaneous requirement planning and scheduling for queuing systems with time-dependent demand” (Andrej Saweljew)
BVL Thesis Award 2012 for the diploma thesis “Simulation-based Slot Scheduling of Truck Handling Operations at the Lufthansa Cargo Hub in Frankfurt” (Axel Franz)
Camelot Management Consultants Award 2012 for the diploma thesis “Simulation-based Slot Scheduling of Truck Handling Operations at the Lufthansa Cargo Hub in Frankfurt” (Axel Franz)
DATEV Best Conference Paper Award 2009 for the paper “Using linear programming to analyze and optimize stochastic flow lines” at the 71st Annual Congress of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), Erlangen-Nürnberg, June 2009 (Raik Stolletz)
Award for excellent teaching of the School of Economics and Management at the Leibniz University Hannover, May 2009 (Raik Stolletz)
Grants
Funding of Helmholtz Investigator Group for the topic “Building Network Resilience in Healthcare against Cyber-Attacks”, September 2023 – August 2028 (Prof. Dr. Emilia Grass).
Scholarship of the Dissertation Completion Grants (Studienabschlussstipendium) Funded by the DAAD-Program “STIBET-Doktoranden,” March 2021 – August 2021 (Amir Foroughi).
Scholarship of the Graduate School of Economic & Social Sciences (GESS), University of Mannheim (funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of the 'Excellence Initiative'), September 2018 – October 2019 (Seyed Mohammad Zenouzzadeh)
Scholarship of the Graduate School of Economic & Social Sciences (GESS), University of Mannheim (funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of the 'Excellence Initiative'), September 2016 – October 2017 (Johannes Schnitzler)
Scholarship of the Erich-Becker-Stiftung for the dissertation project “Performance evaluation and optimization of appointment systems for truck handling operations at air cargo terminals”, April 2014 – December 2015 (Axel Franz)Scholarship of the Erich-Becker-Stiftung for the dissertation project “Quantitative decision support for workforce scheduling at airport check-in counters”, April 2014 – September 2015 (Emilio Zamorano)
Scholarship of the Graduate School of Economic & Social Sciences (GESS), University of Mannheim (funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of the 'Excellence Initiative'), September 2013 – March 2016 (Andrej Saweljew)
Scholarship of the Erich-Becker-Stiftung for the dissertation project “Development of applied optimization algorithms for scheduling airport runway operations”, May 2013 – December 2015 (Alexander Lieder)
Scholarship of the Graduate School of Economic & Social Sciences (GESS), University of Mannheim (funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of the 'Excellence Initiative'), September 2012 – August 2015 (Axel Franz)
Research grant of the Karin-Islinger-Stiftung for the dissertation project “Development of application-oriented optimization approaches for workforce requirement planning and scheduling for call center and airport operations”, June 2014 (Andrej Saweljew)
Scholarship of the Erich-Becker-Stiftung for the Master's thesis project “Task assignment for check-in counters at airports”, May – August 2012 (Annika Becker)
Scholarship of the Graduate School of Economic & Social Sciences (GESS), University of Mannheim (funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of the 'Excellence Initiative'), September 2010 – October 2011 (Emilio Zamorano)
Scholarship of the Erich-Becker-Stiftung for the research project “Development and analysis of mathematical models for airport operations management”, May 2006 – February 2009 (Raik Stolletz)