Subject to: Marco Lübbecke

Marco Lübbecke is a full professor and chair of operations research at Aachen University, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 2001 and was a member of the discrete and combinatorial optimization groups in Braunschweig, Berlin and Darmstadt before he moved to Aachen. Marco's research interests are in computational integer programming and discrete optimization, covering the entire spectrum from fundamental research and methods development to industry scale applications. A particular focus of his work is on decomposition approaches to exactly solving large-scale real-world optimization problems. He is an author of many papers published in prestigious journals such as Operations Research, Mathematical Programming and Management Scinece. Marco teaches more than 2000 students in more than 5 courses every year. He served on the INFORMS board as a VP for information strategy and recently co-founded (with Panos Pardalos) the Springer journal "Operations Research Forum." Marco is known to be on twitter. Contents of this video: 0:00 - Intro 1:32 - Early years 5:11 - On the lack of role models and the interest in math, computers, programming and "bugs" 11:16 - Working at a home for the elderly for 1 year 12:50 - First member of the family to go to the university 15:09 - BSc/MSc / working at UPS / part of the team that developed one of the first German websites 24:32 - Doing PhD was not the original plan... 27:25 - Was it harder to do a PhD 20-25 years ago? 30:20 - First conference and journal paper 34:51 - On the experience of working with column generation and early versions of CPLEX during the PhD 39:10 - Friendship with Prof. Jacques Desrosiers 41:31 - First 2 children born during the PhD 43:25 - Moving to Berlin and then lot of things happened... 47:51 - Moving to Aachen 49:54 - Working with the SCIP framework 52:12 - Automatic Dantzig-Wolfe Reformulation of Mixed Integer Linear Programs 56:31 - The love for teaching 59:00 - Twitter activity 1:07:28 - Reflecting on the popularity of OR compared to other fields 1:12:35 - Operations Research Forum