Team - Chair of Railway Operations
Head of the chair
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Head of chair
NameMr Prof. Dr. Nikola Bešinović
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Chair of Railway Operations
Chair of Railway Operations
Visiting address:
Gerhart-Potthoff-Bau, Room 108 Hettnerstr. 1
01062 Dresden
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Assistance
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Assistance
NameCornelia Obendorf
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Chair of Railway Operations
Chair of Railway Operations
Visiting address:
Gerhart-Potthoff-Bau, 108 Hettnerstr. 1
01069 Dresden
Postal Address:
TU Dresden
Professur für Betrieb von Bahnsystemen
01062 Dresden
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Office hours:
- Monday:
- 10:30 - 11:30
- Tuesday:
- 10:30 - 11:30
- Wednesday:
- 10:30 - 11:30
- Thursday:
- 10:30 - 11:30
Research group - Resilience and Capacity
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Mr Dr.-Ing. Jan Eisold
Research group leader
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Chair of Railway Operations
Chair of Railway Operations
Besucheradresse:
Gerhart-Potthoff-Bau, Room 107C Hettnerstr. 1
01069 Dresden
Deutschland
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Post-doctoral researcher
NameMr Dr. Md Tabish Haque
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Chair of Railway Operations
Chair of Railway Operations
Visiting address:
Gerhart-Potthoff-Bau, Room 110 Hettnerstr. 1
01069 Dresden
Tabish Haque's research interest lies in the use of Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence to contribute to sustainable transportation systems. His primary area of expertise is on disruption management in urban metro and rail systems. In addition, he is interested in evaluating and enhancing the necessary operational and infrastructure modifications for resilience in transportation systems.
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Research Associate
NameMr Lukas Bodi M.Sc.
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Lukas Bodi joined the chair as a PhD student under the supervision of Nikola Bešinovič. He graduated from the faculty's master program "Transportation Economics" in 2025. As a research associate at the Chair of Big Data Analytics in Transportation, he gained a profound background in Machine Learning. In his master thesis, he developed a framework to incorporate hyperparameter optimization into algorithms for flat yard shunting. This approach integrated ML techniques into the Operations Research–dominated transportation.
His work will continue to be data-driven, focusing on the development of resilient railway transport planning towards probable future disruptions. This DFG-funded project is named #RailPrepared. It aims for much more resilient operations in case of disruption events, at the cost of a slightly reduced performance in the non-disrupted time. Passengers will benefit from such system with lower vulnerability and faster recovery from disruptions.
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Research Associate
NameMr Ashkan Fouladi M.Sc.
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Ashkan Fouladi completed his M.Sc. in Civil Engineering at the University of Tehran in 2020. His research interest is in using Operational Research and Artificial Intelligence in the field of Transportation. His academic background is rooted in transportation systems, with particular interests in traffic flow optimization, reinforcement learning applications in transportation, and the integration of innovative technologies to enhance urban transport networks. Currently, he is working as a research associate at the Chair of Rail Operations.
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Post-doctoral researcher
NameMs Bing Liu
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Bing joined the team as a PostDoc researcher under the supervision of Prof. Nikola Bešinović. She will contribute to the project “MultiModX - Integrated Passenger-Centric Planning of Multimodal Transport Networks” during her stay at TUD. Her research will focus on the integration of railway and airline scheduling.
The topic of her PhD thesis at Tongji University is “Coordination of Public Transport and Ride-hailing Services”, which focuses on the modelling of integrated public transport and ride-hailing systems and the collaborative design of public transport frequencies and ride-hailing subsidies.
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Mr Jörn Maurischat M.Sc.
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Research associate
NameMr Sebastian Sehmisch M.Sc.
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Sebastian joined the chair as a PhD student under supervision of Nikola Bešinovič. As part of the REINFORCERAIL Project he will investigate the application of Artificial Intelligence in railway traffic rescheduling. In Particular, his research will contribute to the development of a new intelligent Traffic Management System enabling future automated train rescheduling in case of disruptions.
Sebastian is a transport economist with a special research interest in data-driven analytics and modelling in the field of railway operations. In his master thesis, he conducted a comparative analysis of travel choice modelling using novel Machine Learning tools and traditional econometric approaches.
Research group - Public and regional transport
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Mr Dipl.-Ing. Steffen Dutsch
Research group leader
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Chair of Railway Operations
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Gerhart-Potthoff-Bau, 107A Hettnerstr. 1
01069 Dresden
Deutschland
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Mr Ing. Martin Jareš Ph.D.
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Mr Dr.-Ing. Mohammad Sadrani
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Mohammad Sadrani completed his PhD at the Chair of Transportation Systems Engineering (TSE) at Technical University of Munich, under supervision of Constantinos Antoniou and Alejandro Tirachini Hernández , focusing on the planning and optimization of public transport systems with automated and electric vehicles. He was also actively involved in teaching at TUM and served as a lecturer at TUM Asia in Singapore. In his postdoc, Mohammad will focus on optimizing multimodal transport systems and network design with resilience aspects.
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Research Associate
NameMr Johnny Bahr M.Sc.
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Research Associate
NameMr Dipl.-Ing. Michal Kareš
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Research Associate
NameMr Tom Rudolph M.Sc.
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Ms Dipl.-Ing. Kerstin Wanstrath
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Chair of Railway Operations
Chair of Railway Operations
Besucheradresse:
Gerhart-Potthoff-Bau, 107B Hettnerstr. 1
01069 Dresden
Deutschland
Research group - Rail freight and logistics
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Mr Dipl. Wirtsch.-Ing. Uwe Höppner
Research group leader
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Chair of Railway Operations
Chair of Railway Operations
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Gerhart-Potthoff-Bau, Room 107E Hettnerstr. 1
01069 Dresden
Uwe Höppner studied industrial engineering at the TU Dresden with a specialization in traffic science. After completing his studies, he worked in logistics consulting at DB Cargo AG from 2005, dealing with the development of multimodal transport solutions and customer-specific rail-based logistics concepts. He was able to maintain contact with university research through numerous innovation projects. In 2020 he returned to the TU Dresden, where he took over the management of the research group of Rail Freight & Logistics in 2022. He is a long-standing member of the German Logistics Association (BVL) and the German Society for Project Management (GPM) and holds a project management certification from the IPMA.
Mr Dr.-Ing. Henning Preis
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Chair of Railway Operations
Chair of Railway Operations
Visiting address:
Gerhart-Potthoff-Bau, Room 252 Hettnerstr. 1
01069 Dresden
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Mr Daniel Haalboom M.Sc.
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Mr Philipp Salger M.Sc.
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Railway Operations Laboratory (EBL)
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Ms Dr.-Ing. Beate Lux
Head of the railway oparation laboratory
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Visiting address:
Gerhart-Potthoff-Bau, Raum 005A Hettnerstr. 1
01069 Dresden
Dr.-Ing. Beate Lux studied traffic engineering at the TU Dresden. Initially, she worked in aircraft construction and in the project management of railroad infrastructure projects. In 2002, she returned to TU Dresden and has been researching and teaching in the field of public transport operations. Since 2020, she is responsible for the railroad operations laboratory.
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Ms Michaela Berčíková M.A.
Project assistance - Further education and PR
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Visiting address:
Gerhart-Potthoff-Bau, Raum 005E Hettnerstr. 1
01069 Dresden
Mr Steffen Claus
Laboratory Technology, Laboratory Operation and Work Safety
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Visiting address:
Gerhart-Potthoff-Bau, Untergeschoss, Raum 09 Hettnerstraße 1
01069 Dresden
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Mr Dipl.-Inf. Walerian Nesterenko M.Sc.
Laboratory Control and Software Development
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Visiting address:
Gerhart-Potthoff-Bau, Untergeschoss, Raum 05c Hettnerstraße 1
01069 Dresden
Ms Sirikorn Satitrattanashewin M.Sc.
Research assistant self lerning tools / doctoral student
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Visiting address:
Gerhart-Potthoff-Bau, Raum 005D Hettnerstr. 1
01069 Dresden
External Staff
Mr Jing Shan M.Sc.
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Mr Abu Sayed M.Sc.
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Visiting Researchers
Mr Peiran Han M.Sc.
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Mr Tianyin Zhao PhD.
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Mr Dr. Fangsheng Wang
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Tongji University, Shanghai (China)
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Mr Dr. Julio Alberto López Gómez
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Julio Alberto López Gómez has a PhD in advanced information technologies and he is currently associate professor at the department of Information Systems and Technologies in the University of Castilla La Mancha (UCLM) in Spain, concretely in the Escuela de Ingeniería Minera e Industrial de Almadén (EIMIA), where he teaches computer science and building communication systems. He is also computer engineering graduated by University of Castilla La Mancha and he completed the data science and computer engineering master with mention in data science and intelligent techniques in University of Granada (Spain). His research interests are artificial intelligence, machine learning, metaheuristics algorithms, fuzzy logic and railway transport systems.
Emeritus
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Ehemaliger Leiter der Professur
NameUniv.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rainer König
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