Curriculum Vitae

Rainer E. Burkard

• Personal Data:
  
  Born on January 28, 1943 in Graz, Austria.
  Father: Univ. Professor Dr. Otto Burkard.
  Mother: Herta Burkard, née Waidbacher.
  Married with Dr. Heidemarie Burkard, née Knobloch.
  Three children: Michael (born 1971), Reinhild (born 1972) and Thomas (born 1977).
  Private address: A-8010 Graz, St. Peter Pfarrweg 8a.
  

• Education:
  
  Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Vienna in 1967.
  Habilitation for Mathematics, University of Graz, 1971.

• Professional Positions:
  
  1967-1973 Assistant at the Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of Graz, Austria.
  1972 Visiting Professor at the University of Cologne, Germany.
  1973 Research Fellow at the University of Bonn, Germany.
  1973-1981 Full Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Cologne, Germany.
  1979-1981 joint appointment with the Technical University of Aachen, Germany.
  Since 1981 Full Professor of Mathematics at the Technical University of Graz, Austria.
  

• Membership/Positions Held:
  
  1984-1986 Vice-President of GMÖOR,
  1986-1988 President of the Austrian Operations Research Society,
  1995-1997 EURO Vicepresident of IFORS,
  1993-1996 Dean of the Faculty of Science, Technical University of Graz,
  1994-1998 Member of the Council of the European Consortium of Mathematics in Industry,
  1991-2000 Member of the Senate of the Christian Doppler Research Society,
  2001-2002 Vicepresident of EURO.

• Research Interests:
  
  Combinatorial Optimization,
  Applied Discrete Mathematics,
  Graph Theory,
  Applied Number Theory.
  

• Awards:
  
  The Award of the Austrian Mathematical Society in 1971,
  The Scientific Prize of the Society of Mathematics, Economics and Operations Research in 1991,
  The EURO Gold Medal 1997,
  Since 1998 Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  

• Editorship:
  
  Principal Editor of Mathematics in Industrial Systems.
  Editor of Zeitschrift für Operations Research (editor in chief from 1984-89).
  Editor of Computing (until 2008).
  
  Member of the Editorial Board of:
  
  • The Annals of Operations Research
    
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
    
  • The European Journal of Operational Research
    
  • The Belgian Journal of Operations Research, Statistics and Computer Science (1985-2001)
    
  • Optimization (1987-2001)
    
  • The Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research
    
  • The Central European Journal of Operations Research
    
  • RAIRO Recherche Operationelle (1992-2004)
    
  • The Journal of Universal Computer Science
    
  • Journal of Computing and Information technology
  • Advances in Computing Science
    
  • Journal of Discrete Optimization
    
  • The Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
    
  • SIAM Monographs on Discrete Mathematics and Applications
    
  
  Member of the Advisory Board of OR Spektrum (1981-2005).

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