Project Team
Angelika Wiegele
Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt.
Angelika is a mathematician working on semidefinite optimization and combinatorial optimization. She is Associate Professor at the Mathematics Department at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt.
Angelika studied mathematics in Klagenfurt, London, and Eindhoven. She earned her master (Dipl.-Ing.) in mathematics (2001) and her Ph.D. (Dr. techn.) in mathematics (2006) at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt. Her thesis was supervised by Franz Rendl. She was an Erasmus student (1998/99) at City University London and she did a Leonardo-funded industrial project (2001) at TU Eindhoven under the supervision of Rudi Pendavingh.
Angelika held positions in Graz, Klagenfurt, Rome and Cologne. She was employed as researcher (and lecturer) at TU Graz, Department of Mathematics B (headed by Rainer E. Burkard), at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt in the group of Franz Rendl, at IASI-CNR in Rome, working with Giovanni Rinaldi, and at Universität zu Köln, Institut für Informatik, Lehrstuhl Mike Jünger.
Janez Povh
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Janez Povh, principal investigator in Slovenia, is associate professor and senior researcher at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of mechanical engineering. His main research focus is mathematical optimization with applications in data combinatorial optimization, big data analysis and real algebraic geometry. He is active in high performace computing associations at national (Slovenian HPC consortium) and international scale (PRACE).
He is PI of several projects in the domain of mathematical optimization and high performance computing.
Web: https://www.fs.uni-lj.si/fakulteta_za_strojnistvo/zaposleni/po_abecedi/2016090108013607//
Igor Klep
Institute of mathematics, physics and mechanics Ljubljana
Igor Klep is an associate professor at University of Auckland in New Zealand and a part time researcher at IMFM. He is a well established researcher in polynomial optimization and real algebraic geometry and has many active collaborators all around the world. He has regular and strong connections with Slovenia since he coordinates there a group of researchers working on semidefinite programming applications in polynomial optimization and is also a mentor of one Slovenian PhD student.
Igor Klep has published more than 50 high quality peer reviewed journal papers and book chapters. He has high visibility in his research domain and was awarded with several research grants in Slovenia and abroad. He will contribute to the project in the parts where new relaxations for the original problem will be studied, especially moment and sum-of-squares relaxations and to the study of extensions to polynomial optimization.
Andrej Dobrovoljc
Institute of mathematics, physics and mechanics Ljubljana
ANDREJ DOBROVOLJC received the M.Sc. degree in computer science from University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in computer science. He has taken part in several applied and basic research projects in the domain of application of computer science in various organizations. His primary research area is information systems security. His research interests include web technologies, business process modeling, business process analysis, and project management.
Web: http://www.3ad.si/2016/11/15/pozdravljeni-na-spletni-strani-3ad-informatika//
Elisabeth Gaar
Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt
Elisabeth Gaar is a PostDoc in the project. She finished her PhD at the Department of Mathematics at the Alpen-Adria-Universiteat Klagenfurt in June 2018 under the supervision of Franz Rendl. In her PhD she developed methods to improve the upper bound of the Lovás theta function on the stability number.
Before that she finished her bachelor’s and master’s in Technical Mathematics at Graz University of Technology, giving her a strong background in operations research in general and in combinatorial optimization in particular.
Her main research interests are semidefinite, non-linear and combinatorial optimization.
Nicolo Gusmeroli
Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
Nicolò is a Ph.D. student at the Alpen-Adria-Universität of Klagenfurt. He studied in Verona, Koper and Budapest. He completed his Bachelor in Applied Mathematics at the University of Verona in 2015. He received his Master in Pure Mathematics at ELTE (Budapest) in 2017. His thesis, supervised by Kis Tamas, spoke about Scheduling Theory. He was an Erasmus student at the University of Primorska (Koper, Slovenia) in the summer term of 2015.
His primary research area is operations research, with main focus in combinatorial optimization, semidefinite optimization and scheduling theory.
Timotej Hrga
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
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Web: https://www.fs.uni-lj.si/fakulteta_za_strojnistvo/zaposleni/po_abecedi/2017100208595656//
Borut Lužar
Faculty of Information Studies in Novo mesto, Slovenia
Borut is an associate professor at the Faculty of Information Studies in Novo mesto and a member of the Laboratory for Complex Systems & Data Science. During his PhD studies, he was employed as a young researcher in industry at Ambient d.o.o., where he was also partially employed until 2015. He has some experience as a (web)developer; from 2006 to 2008, he was employed at Gama System. He defended his PhD thesis, entitled Edge-Colorings and Partitions, in 2013. His research work mainly consists of studying problems in graph theory on one side and studying properties and behavior of complex networks on the other.
Franz Rendl
Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt
Franz Rendl is a full professor at the Department of Mathematics at the Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt since 1998. He authored around 100 papers and is in the editorial board of several journals in optimization.