Personal Data Born September 10, 1948 in Schwelm, Germany married since 1976 with Iris Grötschel, three daughters Education 1971 Vordiplom (Bachelor) in Mathematics, University of Bochum 1973 Diplom (Master) in Mathematics; University of Bochum 1977 Ph.D. (Economics), University of Bonn 1981 Habilitation (Operations Research) at University of Bonn Positions 1973 - 1982 Research Assistant at the University of Bonn 1982 - 1991 Full Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Augsburg 1991 - 2005 Full Professor of Information Technology at Technische Universität Berlin (Department of Mathematics) 1991 - 2012 Vice President of the Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin (ZIB) 2012 - 2015 President of the Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin (ZIB) 2015 - 2020 President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) Research Fields and Research Interests Discrete Mathematics, Operations Research, Optimization; Applications of mathematics in telecommunication, logistics, transportation, chip design, energy, production planning and control, logistics and public transport; electronic information and communication, open access, open science, mathematical and IT-aspects of digital humanities. Further Activities (Selection) 1993/1994 President of the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV) 1999 - 2014 Member of the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) 2002 - 2008 Chair of the DFG (German Research Foundation) Research Center Matheon "Mathematics for key technologies", TU Berlin 2002 - 2009 Member of the Executive Board of the DFG Research Center  MATHEON "Mathematics for key technologies", TU Berlin 2007 - 2014 Secretary of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) 2011 - 2015 Chair of the Einstein Foundation Berlin Membership in Scientific Academies 1995 Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) 1999 Foreign Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), USA 2003 Member of acatech - German Academy of Science and Engineering  2005 Member of Leopoldina - German National Academy of Sciences 2015 Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) 2016 Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) for the development of science in the developing countries 2017 Member of Academia Europaea - the Academy of Europe Several activities in national and international scientific societies (e.g. MPS, SIAM, GMÖOR); Active editorial responsibilities for 7 scientific journals. Scientific Awards and Distinctions (Selection) 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 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation  (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG) 1998 Honorary Member of the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung 1999 Scientific Award Wissenschaftspreis of the Gesellschaft für Operations Research 1999 Foreign Member of the National Academy of Engineering, USA 2004 EURO Gold Medal 2004 (EURO - The Association of European Operational Research Societies) 2006 Alwin Walther Medal for outstanding scientific work in applied mathematics (TU Darmstadt) 2006 Honorary Doctorate (University of Karlsruhe) 2006 John von Neumann Theory Prize (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences - INFORMS) 2007 Honorary Doctorate (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 (University of Augsburg) 2011  IBM Faculty Award 2011  TUM Distinguished Affiliated Professor (TU Munich) 2014  Life Time Award der Stiftung heureka für Umwelt & Mobilität (HEUREKA 2014, Stuttgart) Contact data: email: groetschel@bbaw.de URL: https://www.bbaw.de/die-akademie/bbaw-mitglieder/mitglied-martin-groetschel;      https://www.zib.de/groetschel private: Länderallee 11, 14052 Berlin, Germany; Tel: +49 (0)30 3657329

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