Sven O. Krumke

Sven O. Krumke is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), where he has been a faculty member since 2004. He currently serves as the Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics, overseeing academic and administrative affairs. His research is centered in combinatorial optimization and algorithmic game theory, with strong applications in logistics, emergency response, and network design.

• PhD, University of Würzburg (1997)
• Habilitation, Technical University of Berlin (2002)
• Professor, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau (since 2004)

His research interests include combinatorial optimization, approximation and online algorithms, robust scheduling, algorithmic game theory, and graph-theoretic applications. He has led major interdisciplinary projects such as GRK 2982: MIMO (Mathematics of Interdisciplinary Multiobjective Optimization) and ONE PLAN, focusing on optimizing emergency medical services in Rhineland-Palatinate. His work often bridges theoretical computer science and real-world decision-making systems.

His recent publications (2016–2022) emphasize robust optimization, pandemic response logistics, decision-support systems in healthcare, and online routing. These works span domains such as vaccine location strategies, ambulance dispatch, car-sharing relocation, and scheduling under uncertainty. The recurring themes are efficiency, resilience, and algorithmic fairness in dynamic environments.

Notable scientific contributions include work on network design, flow problems with budget constraints, and game-theoretic models of routing. While no specific awards are listed, his leadership in DFG-funded research groups underscores his academic standing.

He actively supervises bachelor's and master's theses and teaches courses such as Grundlagen der Mathematik I: Analysis. He has collaborated with researchers across Germany and internationally, particularly in algorithmic game theory and optimization under uncertainty.

Dr. Krumke leads and contributes to research teams in:

• AG Optimierung (Optimization Research Group) at RPTU
• GRK 2982: MIMO – interdisciplinary multiobjective optimization
• ONE PLAN – optimization in emergency medical response