Rainer Kolisch has been a Full Professor for Operations Management at TUM School of Management since 2002. He studied Industrial Engineering, majoring in Production Management at the Technical University of Darmstadt, and obtained his doctoral degree and his habilitation from Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. Before joining TUM, Rainer Kolisch held faculty positions at Technical University of Darmstadt and Technical University of Dresden. From 2015 to 2016 he has been visiting professor at the Department of System and Industrial Engineering of North Carolina State University.
His primary research interests are project management and scheduling as well as service operations, particularly in airports and health care. Recent projects include baggage flow planning at airports and patient flow planning at hospitals.
Rainer Kolisch has published in leading international journals such as Management Science, Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Transportation Science, IIE Transactions, Naval Research Logistics, and European Journal of Operational Research. He has served as associate editor of, amongst others, Omega and Journal of Scheduling and is currently editor-in-chief of OR Spectrum and member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Decision Processes and Operations Research for Health Care.
Baggage Flow at Hub Airports: In cooperation with Munich Airport models, methods and systems are developed in order to plan the baggage flow at Terminal 2 at Munich Airport.
Patient Flow in Hospitals: In cooperation with a 400-bed municipal hospital models and methods for planning the flow of elective patients within the hospital have been developed.
