Personal Data Born September 10, 1948 in Schwelm, Germany married since 1976 with Iris Grötschel, three daughters Education 1955 - 1967 School attendance in Schwelm 1969 - 1973 Mathematics and economics studies in Bochum 1977 Ph.D. (Economics) in Bonn 1981 Habilitation (Operations Research) in Bonn Positions 1973 - 1982 Research Assistant at the University of Bonn 1982 - 1991 Professor at the University of Augsburg (Chair for Applied Mathematics) since 1991 Professor at the TU Berlin (Department of Mathematics)   and Vice President of the Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin (ZIB) 2002 - 2008 Chair of the DFG Research Center Matheon "Mathematics for key technologies" (at TU Berlin) funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG (German Research Foundation) 2002 - 2009 Member of the Executive Board of Matheon since June 2011 Chairman of the Executive Board of the Einstein Foundation Berlin Research Fields Discrete Mathematics, Operations Research, Optimization; Applications of mathematics in telecommunication, logistics, transportation, chip design, manufacturing, energy distribution. Further Activites 1993/1994 President of the Deutsche Mathemativervereinigung" (DMV) since 1999 Member of the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) since 2007 Secretary of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) Several activities in national und international scientific societies (e.g. MPS, SIAM, GMÖOR); Active editorial responsibilities for 10 scientific journals. Selected Awards 1982 Fulkerson Prize of the American Mathematical Society and Mathematical Programming Society 1990 Karl Heinz Beckurts Prize 1991 George B. Dantzig Prize of the MPS and SIAM 1995 Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) 1995 Member of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1998 Honorary Member of the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung 1999 Wissenschaftspreis der Gesellschaft für Operations Research 1999 Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Engineering, USA 2003 Member of acatech - Konvent für Technikwissenschaften der Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften e.V. 2004 EURO Gold Medal 2004 (EURO - The Association of European Operational Research Societies) 2005 Member of Leopoldina (German Academy of Sciences) 2006 Alwin-Walther Medal for outstanding scientific work in applied mathematics (TU Darmstadt) 2006 Doctor honoris causa (University of Karlsruhe) 2006 John von Neumann Theory Prize (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences - INFORMS) 2007 Doctor honoris causa (Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology - VAST) 2008  Golden Badge of Honor of the TU Berlin 2008  Honorary Doctorate (Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg) 2008  Scientific Award of the Governing Mayor of Berlin 2009  Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) 2010  Medal of Honour, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador 2010  SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession 2011  Honorary Doctorate (Augsburg University) 2011  IBM Faculty Award 2011  TUM Distinguished Affiliated Professor (TU Munich) Address Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin Takustr. 7 D-14195 Berlin-Dahlem Germany Phone: +49-30-84185-210; Fax: +49-30-84185-269 e-mail: groetschel@zib.de URL: http://www.zib.de/groetschel private: Länderallee 11, D-14052 Berlin, Tel: +49-30-3657329

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