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Christina Busing is a Full Professor for Combinatorial Optimization at RWTH Aachen University, a position she has held since 2021. Previously, from 2016 to 2021, she served as a Junior Professor for Robust Planning in Medical Care at the same institution. She leads the Teaching and Research Group on Combinatorial Optimization, contributing significantly to the academic community through her research and teaching activities.
Her educational background includes Mathematics studies at WWU Münster, Universidad Comlutense de Madrid, and the Technical University of Berlin. Her doctoral work was completed under the supervision of Prof. Möhring, focusing on Recoverable Robustness in Combinatorial Optimization. She has also held postdoctoral positions at institutions in Aachen, Lancaster, and Vienna.
Professor Busing's research spans multiple areas of optimization theory and application. Her work focuses on optimization under uncertainty, robust optimization, scenario generation, combinatorial optimization, complexity theory, optimality criteria, and both exact and heuristic algorithms. She has made significant contributions to applying these theoretical frameworks to practical problems in healthcare, energy systems, and transportation networks. Her interdisciplinary approach bridges theoretical computer science with real-world operational challenges.
Her extensive publication record demonstrates a consistent focus on robust combinatorial optimization, with recent work emphasizing applications in healthcare systems, particularly in patient-to-room assignment, primary care scheduling, and pharmacy services. She has developed novel methodologies for handling uncertainty in optimization problems, including recycling valid inequalities and designing consistent decision frameworks for two-stage optimization problems.
- RWTH Aachen Brigitte Gilles Award for contributions to the advancement of women in science (2022)
- RWTH Aachen FAMOS Award for excellent family-friendly leadership (2019)
- RWTH Aachen university-wide Best Teaching Award (2018)
- TU Berlin Best Diploma Excellence Award in Mathematics (2008)
- German National Scholarship (Cusanuswerk) (2003-2007)
Professor Busing serves on multiple program committees including EURO (2019), INOC (2018), and ESA (2017). She is also involved with the UnRAVeL Graduate College since 2018. Her teaching portfolio includes courses on Graph and Network Optimization, Mathematical Heuristics for Discrete Optimization Problems, and Combinatorial Optimization. She has developed problem-based learning approaches for heuristic methods in decision problems across mathematics, computer science, and industrial engineering.
Her research group actively collaborates on interdisciplinary projects addressing operational issues in healthcare, energy systems, and transportation networks, developing mathematically optimized solutions for complex real-world challenges.
