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  Marc Pfetsch



1992 to 1997 Studies of Mathematics at the University of Heidelberg
08/1997 Diploma in Mathematics, University of Heidelberg
Thesis: Heuristiken für das Betweenness Problem mit Anwendung auf das Physical Mapping Problem (in German)
Advisor: Gerhard Reinelt
08/1997 to 05/1998 Studies of Operations Research at Cornell University with a Fulbright Scholarship.
08/1998 to 11/2002 Teaching assistant at the Technische Universität Berlin in the Discrete Geometry Group
10/2002 Ph. D. thesis: The Maximum Feasible Subsystem Problem and Vertex-Facet Incidences of Polyhedra
Advisor: Prof. Günter M. Ziegler, Technische Universität Berlin
12/2002 to 11/2008 Researcher in the department Scientific Computing - Optimization at Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB)
05/2007 to 07/2007 Research visit to the Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica (IASI), Rome
2008 Leader of the group "Integer Programming and Discrete Structures" of the department optimization (ZIB).
04/2008 Habilitation: "Computational Aspects of Combinatorial Optimization", Technische Universität Berlin
Referees: Martin Grötschel, Thomas Liebling, Rolf H. Möhring, Giovanni Rinaldi
12/2008 to 03/2012 W2-Professor at Institute for Mathematical Optimization of the Technische Universität Braunschweig.
Since 04/2012 W3-Professor for Discrete Optimization, Research Group Optimization, Department of Mathematics, Technische Universität Darmstadt.
10/2014-09/2016 Vice-Dean, Department of Mathematics, Technische Universität Darmstadt.
2016 Winner of the EURO Excellence in Practice Award 2016 for "Evaluating Gas Network Capacities".
10/2018-09/2020 Vice-Dean (summer 19: Dean), Department of Mathematics, Technische Universität Darmstadt.
10/2022-09/2024 Dean, Department of Mathematics, Technische Universität Darmstadt.


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Marc Pfetsch updated: 10/2022