Andreas S. Schulz joined TUM as Alexander von Humboldt-Professor in 2015. He has a joint appointment in the Department of Mathematics and the School of Management. He has been a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) faculty since 1998, most recently as the Patrick J. McGovern Chair of Management and Professor of Mathematics of Operations Research. Earlier, he was Head of the Operations Research & Statistics Group at MIT’s Sloan School. Prof. Schulz has held visiting research professorships at the Institute of Theoretical Computer Science of ETH Zurich, in the Department of Quantitative Economics at Maastricht University, at the Mathematics Department of TU Berlin, and the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Technische Universität Berlin in 1996. Prof. Schulz is currently Spokesperson for the DFG funded doctoral program “Advanced Optimization in a Networked Economy.” He has been on the editorial boards of several scientific journals, including ACM Transactions on Algorithms, Discrete Optimization, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Journal of Scheduling, and Operations Research.