Prof. Dr. Jörn Schönberger
Jörn Schönberger (born in 1973) first studied mathematics and graduated with a Diploma in mathematics at the University of Bremen in 2000. In 2004, he did his doctorate with the title Dr. rer. pol. at the department of economics of the University of Bremen. His doctoral thesis “Operational Freight Carrier Planning” was honoured with the dissertation price of the Gesellschaft für Operations Research (Operations Research Society, GOR e.V.). Jörn Schönberger habilitated in 2010 and obtained the Venia Legendi for the subject of business administration at the University of Bremen.
Before his appointment to the TU Dresden, Jörn Schönberger had been a professor for Operations and Supply Chain Management at the Berlin School of Economics and Law as well as a Senior Researcher at the University of Bremen. For several years he has been a visiting professor at the Faculté des sciénces économiques at the Universté de Rennes 1 in France for the subject IT and Logistics. In 2010, he represented the chair for Operations Research and Supply Chain Management at the RWTH Aachen (sine spe). Jörn Schönberger was a visiting professor at the University of Vienna as well as a visiting researcher at the Copenhagen Business School.
Jörn Schönberger is/was involved in various academic teaching programs for Bachelor, Master and Diploma degrees at, inter alia, the University of Bremen, Technische Universität Berlin, RWTH Aachen, University of Vienna, Université Rennes 1, European Business School, FOM University of Applied Sciences, University of Applied Sciences Bremen, Hamburg Distance University of Applied Sciences, as well as at the University of Applied Sciences HIWL. The majority of his teaching portfolio addresses questions / contents at the interface between engineering and business administration.
The research interests of Jörn Schönberger are primarly in the field of model-based optimization and control of complex systems. Therefore, different methods from mathematics, operations research, artificial intelligence and (business) informatics are applied. The typical scopes of application cover, inter alia, traffic, transport, logistics and production systems, but also the planning of sports events.
Jörn Schönberger is the author of two monographies and two textbooks. Additionally, he wrote several journal articles as well as various scientific publications. He regularly reports about his current research results at conferences. Furthermore, he works as an expert for several scientific journals as well as for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG).