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| 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 (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 Mathematiker-Vereinigung (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 (ZIB)
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