Martin Skutella (mathematician)

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Martin Skutella (* 1969 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German mathematician.

Life

After completing his degree in mathematics and physics at RWTH Aachen University in 1995 , he moved to TU Berlin , where he received his doctorate in 1998 under Rolf Möhring with a thesis on Approximation and Randomization in Scheduling . After stays at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), at the University of Bonn , the TU Berlin, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge (USA) and at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science in Saarbrücken In 2004 he was appointed to the chair for discrete optimization at the University of Dortmund . Since 2007 he has been a MATHEON professor for combinatorial optimization and graph algorithms, and since 2015 he has held an Einstein professorship at the TU Berlin.

From 2009 to 2012 he was the editor in charge of the “Announcements of the German Mathematicians Association”. He has been the founding spokesman of the MATH + Cluster of Excellence since 2019.

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