Frank Werner

Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany

Frank Werner was born in Magdeburg, Germany, in 1955. He received a Diploma (with honors) from the Technical University of Magdeburg, Germany. For his Diploma thesis, he received the Faculty Award of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics in 1981. He received a Ph.D. degree (with summa cum laude) from the Technical University of Magdeburg, Germany, in 1984. In 1987, he had a 5-month research stay in Minsk, Belarus and a 1-month stay at the Banach center in Warsaw, Poland. In 1989, he defended his Habilitation thesis at the Technical University of Magdeburg, Germany. In 1992, he received a grant from the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation for a research stay at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. In 1994, he had a teaching stay at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. Currently, he is an Extraordinary Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics of the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany. Werner is mainly interested in scheduling problems (exact and heuristic algorithms, complexity, stability, and uncertainty), operations research, and graph theory. He was also a Guest Editor of the special issues in the journals Annals of Operations Research and Computers and Operations Research. He has about 120 papers in international journals and book contributions, and he was a referee for more than 30 international journals. He is also an author of the textbook Mathematics of Economics and Business (Routledge, 2006).

Biography Updated on 26 August 2009

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