Angelika Wiegele

Prof. Angelika Wiegele is a full Professor at the Department of Mathematics at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt. She serves as a member of the university senate and head of the Institut für Mathematik. Her research focuses on semidefinite optimization, combinatorial optimization, and their applications in graph theory and operations research. She holds a Dipl.-Ing. (2001) and Dr. techn. (2006) from Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, with thesis supervision by Franz Rendl. Her academic career includes positions at TU Graz, IASI-CNR Rome, and Universität zu Köln, as well as a visiting professorship at Università di Roma Tor Vergata.

Her educational background includes studies at City University London (Erasmus) and TU Eindhoven (Leonardo project). Recent work emphasizes SDP-based methods for graph partitioning, edge expansion, and combinatorial problems, with a focus on high-performance computing solutions. Her research bridges theoretical optimization with practical applications in network design and algorithmic development.

Publications from 2021–2024 highlight advancements in semidefinite programming for graph partitioning, SDP-based bounds for cutwidth, and exact solvers for clustering problems. She contributed to the BiqBin and SOS-SDP solvers for quadratic optimization and co-edited special journal issues on mixed-integer nonlinear optimization. Her work often appears in top operations research journals and conference proceedings.

Prof. Wiegele has held global faculty positions at the University of Cologne (2022–2024) and is active in international research collaborations through PRACE high-performance computing initiatives. She maintains an ORCID profile and a university webpage with teaching and research materials.