Head of Group
Prof. Dr. rer.nat. habil. Sebastian Sager
![Prof. Dr. rer.nat. habil. Sebastian Sager](/people/images/sager.jpg)
Prof. Dr. rer.nat. habil. Sebastian Sager
Building 02, Room 224
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg
Germany
- Nonlinear Mixed-Integer Optimal Control
- Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming
- Simultaneous Methods for Constrained Nonlinear Optimal Control Problems
- Numerical Methods for Optimum Experimental Design
- Machine Learning and Optimization
- Optimization under Uncertainty
- Applications in Mobility, Energy, Clinical Decision Support
Secretary
Susanne Heß
![Susanne Heß](/people/images/hess.jpg)
Susanne Heß
Building 2, Room 206
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg
Germany
Senior Staff
Dr. Florian Kehrle
![Dr. Florian Kehrle](/people/images/medium_kehrle.jpg)
Dr. Florian Kehrle
- Mathematical Optimization in Medicine
- Electrocardiac signals and Tachycardia
- Mixed Reality in Medical Training and Education
- Nonlinear Mixed-Integer Dynamic Optimization
Dr. Jeremi Mizerski
![Dr. Jeremi Mizerski](/people/images/medium_mizerski.png)
Dr. Jeremi Mizerski
Building 2, Room 212
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg
Germany
- Cardiology
- Mathematical Modeling
- Medical Applications
PhD Students
Sarah Feldmann
![Sarah Feldmann](/people/images/feldmann.jpg)
Sarah Feldmann
Building 2, Room 207B
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg
Germany
- Combinatorial Optimization
- Inverse simulation and source detection in graphs
- Applications in Medicine
Anna Gebhard
![Anna Gebhard](/people/images/gebhard.jpg)
Anna Gebhard
Building 2, Room 204
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg
Germany
- Receding Horizon Optimal Control
- Real-Time Optimization
- Modeling and Parameter Estimation
- Applications in Medicine
Mirko Hahn
![Mirko Hahn](/people/images/hahn.png)
Mirko Hahn
Building 02, Room 204
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg
Germany
- Mixed-integer Nonlinear Optimization
- Optimization with PDE Constraints
- Optimization with Set-Valued Variables
- Application Gas and Power Networks
Veronica Haritonova
![Veronica Haritonova](/people/images/haritonova.jpg)
Veronica Haritonova
Building 2, Room 222
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg
Germany
- Inverse Optimization
- Optimal Control
- Modeling and Parameter Estimation
- Applications in Medicine
Timon Klein
![Timon Klein](/people/images/klein.jpg)
Timon Klein
Building 2, Room 204
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg
Germany
- Machine Learning (Transformer)
- Applications in Medicine
Robert Lampel
![Robert Lampel](/people/images/lampel.jpg)
Robert Lampel
Building 2, Room 221a
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg
Germany
- Lifting
- Optimization
Do Duc Le
![Do Duc Le](/people/images/le.jpg)
Do Duc Le
Building 2, Room 223
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg
Germany
- Mathematical Optimization in Traffic
- Mixed-Integer Optimal Control
Patrick Lilienthal
![Patrick Lilienthal](/people/images/lilienthal.jpg)
Patrick Lilienthal
Building 2, Room 223
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg
Germany
- Mathematical modeling with applications in medicine
- Focus on hematopoiesis
- Parameter estimation
- Optimum experimental design
Carl Julius Martensen
![Carl Julius Martensen](/people/images/martensen.jpg)
Carl Julius Martensen
Building 2, Room 205
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg
Germany
- Scientific Machine Learning
- Data-Driven System Estimation
Carsten Matke
![Carsten Matke](/people/images/matke.jpg)
Carsten Matke
Building EWE-Forschungszentrum für Energietechnologie e.V.
Carl-von-Ossietzky-Str. 15
D-26129 Oldenburg
Germany
- Nonlinear Mixed-Integer Dynamic Optimization
- Optimization under Uncertainty
- Application to Electricity Transmission Grid
Christoph Plate
![Christoph Plate](/people/images/plate.jpg)
Christoph Plate
Building 02, Room 207a
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg
Germany
- Optimization Methods for Machine Learning
- Optimal Control
- Applications in Chemical Engineering
Adrian Reimann
![Adrian Reimann](/people/images/reimann.jpg)
Adrian Reimann
Building 2, Room 207a
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg
Germany
- Optimization Methods for Machine Learning
- Modeling and Parameter Estimation
- Applications in Medicine
Daria Shaydurova
![Daria Shaydurova](/people/images/Profilbilder-Ottoline.jpg)
Daria Shaydurova
Building 02, Room 222
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg, Germany
- Advanced Topics in Monomial Patterns for Polynomial Optimization
Manuel Tetschke
![Manuel Tetschke](/people/images/tetschke.jpg)
Manuel Tetschke
Building 2, Room 221a
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg, Germany
Germany
- Nonlinear Mixed-Integer Dynamic Optimization
- Nonlinear Model-Predictive Control
- Real-Time Online Optimization
- Applications in Automotive Engineering Nonlinear Mixed-Integer Dynamic Optimization
Tobias Weber
![Tobias Weber](/people/images/weber.jpg)
Tobias Weber
Building 2, Room 204
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg
Germany
- Nonlinear Model-Predictive Control
- Electrocardiac signals and Tachycardia
- Source detection in graphs
Reinhold Wittmann
![Reinhold Wittmann](/people/images/wittmann.png)
Reinhold Wittmann
Building 2, Room 221a
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg
Germany
- Optimal control of P2chem/P2X processes
- Structure exploiting optimal control
Associated PhD Students (second supervisor)
Shaimaa Monem
![Shaimaa Monem](/people/images/medium_monem.png)
Shaimaa Monem
Master students and Hiwis
Denis Dietze
![Denis Dietze](/people/images/Profilbilder-Otto.jpg)
Denis Dietze
Building 02, Room 207a
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg
Germany
Former Members
Felix Bernhardt
![Felix Bernhardt](/people/images/medium_bernhardt.png)
Felix Bernhardt
Dr. Anamaria Bodea
![Dr. Anamaria Bodea](/people/images/bodea.jpg)
Dr. Anamaria Bodea
Dr. Alexander Buchner
![Dr. Alexander Buchner](/people/images/buchner.jpg)
Dr. Alexander Buchner
Hendrik Burgdörfer
![Hendrik Burgdörfer](/people/images/burgdoerfer.jpg)
Hendrik Burgdörfer
Dr. Holger Diedam
![Dr. Holger Diedam](/people/images/diedam.jpg)
Dr. Holger Diedam
- Nonlinear Mixed-Integer Dynamic Optimization
- Nonlinear Model-Predictive Control
- Real-Time Online Optimization
- Automated Modelling
- Applications in Economics
- Applications in Psychology
- Applications in Robotics
Dr. Michael Engelhart
![Dr. Michael Engelhart](/people/images/engelhart.jpg)
Dr. Michael Engelhart
Room 407
Im Neuenheimer Feld 368
69120 Heidelberg
Germany
- Nonlinear Mixed-Integer Dynamic Optimization
- Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming
- Applications in Cancer Chemotherapy
- Applications in Psychology
Dr. Janick Frasch
![Dr. Janick Frasch](/people/images/frasch.jpg)
Felix Gnettner
![Felix Gnettner](/people/images/Profilbilder-Otto.jpg)
Felix Gnettner
Dr. Kathrin Hatz
![Dr. Kathrin Hatz](/people/images/hatz.jpg)
Dr. Kathrin Hatz
Dr. Andreas Himmel
![Dr. Andreas Himmel](/people/images/himmel.jpg)
Dr. Andreas Himmel
Building Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik komplexer technischer Systeme, Room S 3.15
Sandtorstraße 1
39106 Magdeburg
Germany
- Parameter estimation
- Nonlinear Mixed-Integer Dynamic Optimization
- Optimization under Uncertainty
- Applications in Chemical Engineering
Dr. Tony Huschto
![Dr. Tony Huschto](/people/images/huschto.png)
Dr. Dennis Janka
![Dr. Dennis Janka](/people/images/janka.jpg)
Dr. Dennis Janka
Room 402
Im Neuenheimer Feld 368
69120 Heidelberg
Germany
- Numerical Methods for Optimum Experimental Design
- Numerical Methods for Optimal Control Problems
- Applications in Chemical Engineering
Dr. Felix Jost
![Dr. Felix Jost](/people/images/jost.jpg)
Dr. Felix Jost
- Modelling of hematopoietic processes
- Parameter estimation
- Optimum experimental design
- Dual control
- Applications in robotics and medicine
Dr. Michael Jung
![Dr. Michael Jung](/people/images/jung.jpg)
Dr. Michael Jung
Dr. Sabrina Kellner
![Dr. Sabrina Kellner](/people/images/Profilbilder-Ottoline.jpg)
Dr. Christian Kirches
![Dr. Christian Kirches](/people/images/kirches.jpg)
Dr. Lilian Kramer
![Dr. Lilian Kramer](/people/images/kramer.jpg)
Jeanny Langer
![Jeanny Langer](/people/images/Profilbilder-Ottoline.jpg)
Jeanny Langer
Christian Laus
![Christian Laus](/people/images/Profilbilder-Otto.jpg)
Christian Laus
Sarah Lorenz
![Sarah Lorenz](/people/images/Profilbilder-Ottoline.jpg)
Sarah Lorenz
Dr. Stephan Ludwig
![Dr. Stephan Ludwig](/people/images/ludwig.jpg)
Dr. Stephan Ludwig
Dr. Maximilian Merkert
![Dr. Maximilian Merkert](/people/images/merkert.jpg)
Dr. Maximilian Merkert
- Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming
- Network Optimization & Applications
- Polyhedral Combinatorics
- Graph Theory
- Game Theory
Mark Mueller
![Mark Mueller](/people/images/mueller.jpg)
Mark Mueller
Dr. Kai-Friederike Oelbermann
![Dr. Kai-Friederike Oelbermann](/people/images/oelbermann.jpg)
Dr. Kai-Friederike Oelbermann
Building 2, Room 222
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg
Germany
- Optimal Design of Experiments
- Proportional representation
Dr. Benjamin Peters
![Dr. Benjamin Peters](/people/images/peters.jpg)
Dr. Benjamin Peters
Building 2, Room 212
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg
Germany
- SDPs
- Polynomial optimization
Dr. Jonas Rauch
![Dr. Jonas Rauch](/people/images/rauch.jpg)
Dr. Jonas Rauch
Room 404
Im Neuenheimer Feld 368
69120 Heidelberg
Germany
- Optimal Control Policies in Airline Revenue Management
- Airline Demand ForecastingNonlinear Mixed-Integer Dynamic Optimization
Kristine Rinke
![Kristine Rinke](/people/images/rinke.jpg)
Kristine Rinke
Building 2, Room 223
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg
Germany
- Mathematical models in biology/ecology and medicine
- Physiologically structured models
- Parameter estimation
- Optimal control of clinically relevant cancer chemotherapy schedules and optimal combination of different cancer therapies
Anja Schäfer
![Anja Schäfer](/people/images/Profilbilder-Ottoline.jpg)
Anja Schäfer
Paul Scharnhorst
![Paul Scharnhorst](/people/images/Profilbilder-Otto.jpg)
Paul Scharnhorst
Susanne Scholl
![Susanne Scholl](/people/images/Profilbilder-Ottoline.jpg)
Susanne Scholl
Jonas Schulze
![Jonas Schulze](/people/images/Profilbilder-Otto.jpg)
Jonas Schulze
Dr. Stephan Sorgatz
![Dr. Stephan Sorgatz](/people/images/sorgatz.jpg)
Dr. Stephan Sorgatz
Building 2, Room 223
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg
Germany
- Optimization of Vehicular Traffic at Traffic Light Intersections
- Implementation of an Acceleration Controller using Model Predictive Control
Prof. Dr. Emily Speakman
![Prof. Dr. Emily Speakman](/people/images/speakman.png)
Prof. Dr. Emily Speakman
Building 02, Room 222
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg
Germany
- Research Project: Research Overview
Dr. Anna Thünen
![Dr. Anna Thünen](/people/images/Profilbilder-Ottoline.jpg)
Dr. Anna Thünen
Dr. Le Thi Thien Thuy
![Dr. Le Thi Thien Thuy](/people/images/thuy.png)
Dr. Le Thi Thien Thuy
Building 02, Room 222
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg
Germany
- Control theory
- Numerical optimal control
- Set-valued numerics
Dr. Jennifer Uebbing
![Dr. Jennifer Uebbing](/people/images/uebbing.jpg)
Dr. Jennifer Uebbing
Building Max-Plank Institut für Dynamik komplexer technischer Systeme, Room N 3.15
Sandtorstraße 1
39106 Magdeburg, Germany
Germany
- Parameter estimation
- Optimal control
- Finite element method
Sören Weniger
![Sören Weniger](/people/images/weniger.png)
Sören Weniger
Building 02, Room 205
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg
Germany
Dr. Leonard Wirsching
![Dr. Leonard Wirsching](/people/images/wirsching.jpg)
Dr. Leonard Wirsching
Room 411
Im Neuenheimer Feld 368
69120 Heidelberg
Germany
- Nonlinear optimization
- SQP methods
- Numerics of optimal control and parameter estimation
- Model predictive control
- Moving horizon estimation
- ODE modelling and simulation
- Sensitivity generation
Dr. Clemens Zeile
![Dr. Clemens Zeile](/people/images/zeile.jpg)
Dr. Clemens Zeile
Building 2, Room 221a
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg
Germany
- Mathematical Optimization in Medicine