Group Members
We are looking for Postdocs, PhD students, and Master students to join (see openings).
Current members

Sebastian Pokutta
Full Professor @ TU Berlin
Vice President @ Zuse Institute Berlin
email: pokuttazib.de
web: http://www.pokutta.com/
- Diploma in Mathematics (minor: in Computer Science), University of Duisburg-Essen
- PhD with Rüdiger Göbel, University of Duisburg-Essen
- Postdoc MIT, TUD, FAU

Mathieu Besançon
Postdoc, joined January 2021
email: besanconzib.de
web: https://matbesancon.github.io
- MSc in Process Engineering, 2016, Université de Technologie de Compiègne
- Joint PhD in Mathematics & Computer Science, 2020, Polytechnique Montréal & École Centrale de Lille

Gábor Braun
Postdoc, joined January 2020
email: braungb88gmail.com
web: https://www.renyi.hu/~braung/
- MSc in Mathematics (minor: in English-Hungarian technical translator), Eötvös Loránd University
- PhD with Rüdiger Göbel, University of Duisburg-Essen
- Postdoc UDE, University of Leipzig, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Georgia Tech

Gabriele Iommazzo
Postdoc, joined Spring 2022
email: iommazzozib.de
- MSc in Business Informatics and Data Science, Università di Pisa, 2017
- Joint Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer Science, École Polytechnique Paris and Università di Pisa, 2021

David Martínez-Rubio
Postdoc, joined January 2022
email: martinez-rubiozib.de
web: https://damaru2.github.io
- BSc in Mathematics and in Computer Science, Complutense University of Madrid
- MSc in Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science, University of Oxford
- PhD in Computer Science with Varun Kanade and Patrick Rebeschini, University of Oxford

Kartikey Sharma
Postdoc, Group Head FATE, joined Spring 2020
email: kartikeyrinwagmail.com
web: https://kartikeyrinwa.github.io/
- B.Tech Process Engineering, IIT Roorkee
- MSc in Industrial Engineering, Northwestern University
- PhD with Omid Nohadani, Northwestern University

Christoph Spiegel
Postdoc, Group Head ICOL, joined Summer 2020
email: christoph.spiegelfu-berlin.de
web: http://www.christophspiegel.berlin/
- BSc in Mathematics, Freie Universität Berlin
- MSc in Mathematics, Freie Universität Berlin and Berlin Mathematical School
- PhD in Mathematics with Juanjo Rué and Oriol Serra, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Zev Woodstock
Postdoc, joined January 2022
email: woodstockzib.de
web: https://zevwoodstock.github.io/
- MSc in Applied Mathematics, North Carolina State University
- PhD in Mathematics with Patrick Combettes, North Carolina State University

Christoph Graczyk
PhD Student in Mathematics, joined Fall 2020
email: graczykzib.de
- BSc in Mathematics in Finance and Industry, TU Braunschweig
- MSc in Mathematics in Finance and Industry, TU Braunschweig

Sebastian Knebel
PhD Student in Mathematics, joined Spring 2022
email: knebelzib.de
- BSc in Mathematics, FU Berlin
- Diplom in Applied Mechanics, TU Dresden

Felix Prause
PhD Student in Mathematics, joined Summer 2020
email: prausezib.de
- Co-Advisor: Prof. Dr. Ralf Borndörfer
- BSc in Mathematics, TU Berlin
- MSc in Mathematics, TU Berlin

Christophe Roux
PhD Student in Mathematics, joined Fall 2021
email: rouxzib.de
web: http://christopheroux.de
- BSc in Physical Engineering, TU Berlin
- MSc in Scientific Computing, TU Berlin

Shpresim Sadiku
PhD Student in Mathematics, joined Fall 2020
email: shpresim.ssgmail.com
web: https://www.shpresimsadiku.com/
- BSc in Mathematics, University of Tirana
- MSc in Mathematics in Data Science, TU Munich

Arwed Steuer
PhD Student in Mathematics, joined Spring 2022
email: steuerzib.de
- BSc in Mathematics, University of Tübingen
- MSc in Mathematics, University of Tübingen

Berkant Turan
PhD Student, joined Summer 2022”
email: turanzib.de
- BSc in Engineering Science, TU Berlin
- MSc in Scientific Computing, TU Berlin

Elias Wirth
PhD Student in Mathematics, joined Summer 2020
email: wirthzib.de
web: https://www.wirthelias.com
- BSc in Mathematics, University of Bern
- MSc in Mathematics, ETH Zürich

Max Zimmer
PhD Student in Mathematics, joined Summer 2020
email: zimmerzib.de
- BSc in Mathematics, TU Berlin
- MSc in Mathematics, TU Berlin

Jonathan Geuter
MSc Student in Mathematics at TU Berlin, joined Spring 2021
email: geuterzib.de

Garam Kim
MSc student in Scientific Computing (TU Berlin), joined Summer 2021
email: garamzib.de
- BSc in Mathematics, Pusan National University
- MSc in Applied Mathematics, Pusan National University

Elias Schecke
MSc Student in Mathematics (TU Berlin), joined Summer 2021
email: scheckezib.de

Anant Rajeev Talasikar
MSc Student in Scientific Computing (TU Berlin), joined Spring 2022
email: talasikarzib.de.
- BSc in Mechanical Engineering, University of Mumbai

Daniel Viladrich
MSc Student in Technomathematics (TU Berlin), joined October 2021
email: daniel.viladrich.hgmail.com
- BSc in Physics and Mathematics, UAB, Barcelona

Maria Bulychev
BSc Student in Mathematical Economics (TU Berlin), joined Spring 2021
email: maria.bulychevoutlook.de

Ingo Meise
BSc Student in Mathematics, joined Summer 2020
email: meiseingogmail.com
Alumni

Francisco Criado
Role: Postdoc, March 2021 till August 2022

Hoang Pham
Role: MSc Student in Economical Mathematics, joined Summer 2020

Felix Huber
Role: MSc Student in Industrial Engineering, Fall 2020 till Spring 2022

Sergi Andreu
Role: MSc Student in Scientific Computing (TU Berlin), joined Fall 2020


Alejandro Carderera
Graduated December 2021Role: PhD Student in Machine Learning (GT), started Fall 2018
web: https://alejandro-carderera.github.io/

Max-Georg Schorr
Role: PhD Student in Mathematics, joined Summer 2020

Cyrille Combettes
Graduated May 2021, now Postdoctoral Researcher with Jérôme BolteRole: PhD Student in Machine Learning (GT), joined Fall 2018
web: https://cyrillewcombettes.github.io/

Alfredo Torrico Palacios
Graduated May 2019, now Postdoctoral Researcher in the MAGI, Polytechnique Montréal group of Andrea LodiRole: PhD student in Operations Research (GT)
web: https://sites.google.com/view/atorrico

Aurko Roy
Graduated May 2017, now Research Scientist at Google ResearchRole: PhD student in ACO, GT
web: https://sites.google.com/site/royaurko/home

Daniel Zink
Graduated May 2017, now Data Scientist at GoogleRole: PhD student in ACO, GT

Jeff Pavelka
Graduated May 2017, now Data Scientist at Macy’s Systems and TechnologyRole: PhD student in Operations Research, GT

Arefin Huq
Graduated May 2016, now Research Engineer at Google ResearchRole: PhD student in Computer Science, GT

Cristóbal Guzmán
Graduated May 2015, now Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Engineering School of Universidad Católica de ChileRole: PhD student in ACO, GT
web: https://sites.google.com/view/cguzman/
Lab visitors
We host several visitors throughout the year to discuss research and present their work. If you want to meet any of the visitors please send an email.
Recent and upcoming visitors
- Feliks Nüske, 2022 Fall
- Vladimir Kolmogorov, Summer 2022
- Hiroshi Kera, Summer 2022
- Karen Aardal, Summer 2022
- Vijay Vazirani, Summer 2022
- Lorenz T. (Larry) Biegler, Summer 2022
- Dr. Haoxiang Yang, Summer 2022
- Dr Vu Nguyen, Summer 2022
- Jonathan Eckstein, Summer 2022
- David Steurer, Summer 2022
- Frauke Liers, Fall 2020
- Thomas Kerdreux, Summer 2020
- Antoine Deza, Summer 2020
- Antoine Prouvost, Spring 2020 (postponed due to COVID-19)
- Gonzalo Muñoz, Spring 2020
- Thomas Kerdreux, Spring 2020
- Sebastian Tschuppik, Fall 2019, Spring 2020
- Ariel Liebmann, Fall 2019
- Andreas Bärmann, Fall 2019
- Masashi Sugiyama, Fall 2019
Administrative Support
Antje Schulz is helping us at TU Berlin and Heike Balluneit and Sybille Mattrisch are helping us at ZIB with administration.