Armin Fรผgenschuh is professor for Applied Mathematics at Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany, since 2013. He graduated with a diploma in Mathematics in Oldenburg in 2000 and received a doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Technische Universitรคt Darmstadt in 2005. Between 2005 and 2013 he worked on postdoc positions at the Technische Universitรคt Darmstadt, the Zuse Institute Berlin, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Friedrich-Alexander-Universitรคt Erlangen-Nuremberg. In 2011 he finished his habilitation and received a venia legendi from the Technische Universitรคt Berlin. His area of research is mixed-integer linear and nonlinear optimization and its application to real-world and engineering problems.
Martin Josef Geiger is professor and holds the chair of Business Administration/Logistics Management at Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany. His formal qualifications comprise a Doctoral degree (Dr. oec.) and a Habilitation, both from the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart. Prof. Geiger is an active researcher in the area of multi criteria decision making and multi objective optimization, and has contributed to various recent optimization problems in scheduling, vehicle routing, and timetabling.