Arnold Neumaier is a Full Professor (Chair for Computational Mathematics) at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria. His research focuses on global optimization, heuristic optimization, nonlinear optimization, and optimization under uncertainty. He leads a research group developing state-of-the-art software for optimization, numerical analysis, and statistics. Collaborations include work on global optimization with Immanuel Bomze and Vladimir Kolmogorov, heuristic optimization with Nysret Musliu and Günther Raidl, and optimization for data analysis with Dan Alistarh and Radu Boț. Neumaier holds a Ph.D. from the Free University of Berlin (1977) and has held academic positions at the University of Freiburg (1987–1993), AT&T Bell Laboratories (1993–1994), and visiting roles at Princeton University, the University of Nice, and RWTH Aachen. His work spans computational mathematics, quantum physics, and mathematical software development. He maintains extensive web resources on optimization and numerical analysis. Research interests include algorithmic software development, verified computing, mathematical modeling languages, uncertainty modeling, and quantum physics. His group comprises 1 full professor, 1 associate professor, 1 university assistant, 3 postdocs, and multiple PhD students. Key contributions include the 'Global Optimization' WWW site and foundational work in causal perturbation theory for quantum field theory.







