Prof. Dr. Johannes Thürauf
Department Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Discrete Optimization Lab
- Telefon: +49 911 92741640
- E-Mail: johannes.thuerauf@utn.de
About
Johannes Thürauf has been a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Discrete Optimization Lab at the University of Technology Nuremberg since 10/2024. Prior to this, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Trier University from 11/2021 to 09/2024. He studied Mathematics at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and received his M.Sc. degree in 05/2017. Afterward, he worked as a PhD student at the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and got his PhD at the end of 2021. His research focus is on developing algorithms and solution techniques to solve optimization problems in different fields. Further, his goal is to link theory and practice by developing advanced solution methods, implementing them, and applying these methods to real-world challenges. Since 01/2025 he is Secretary of the Bilevel Optimization Society.
Main Research Interests
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- Optimization under uncertainty
- Bilevel und multilevel optimization
- Mixed-integer nonlinear optimization
- Network optimization, combinatorial, and algorithmic optimization
Curriculum Vitae
| Since 01/2025 | Secretary of the Bilevel Optimization Society |
| Since 10/2024 | Tenure-track Assistant Professor for Discrete Optimization at the University of Technology Nuremberg |
| 11/2021 – 09/2024 | (Postdoctoral) researcher at Trier University, Department of Mathematics, working group “Nonlinear Optimization” (Prof. Dr. Martin Schmidt) |
| 12/2021 | PhD in Mathematics at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| 06/2017 – 10/2021 | Research assistant at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Department of Data Science, working group “Chair of Analytics & Mixed-Integer Optimization” (formerly Department of Mathematics: Chair of Applied Mathematics: Mixed-Integer Linear and Nonlinear Optimization) (Prof. Dr. Alexander Martin) |
| 05/2017 | M.Sc. in Mathematics at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |
Awards
| 2024 | 2024 Meritorious Service Awards by Operations Research for outstanding service to the journal Operations Research as a reviewer |
| 2023 | GOR Young Researchers Award 2023 based on the publication A bilevel optimization approach to decide the feasibility of bookings in the European gas market (Jointly with Fränk Plein, Martine Labbé, and Martin Schmidt) |
| 2021 | MMOR Best Paper Award 2021 for the paper A bilevel optimization approach to decide the feasibility of bookings in the European gas market in the journal Mathematical Methods of Operations Research (Jointly with Fränk Plein, Martine Labbé, and Martin Schmidt) |
| 2022 | One of the four finalist of the EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award (2022) for PhD thesis “Feasibility for Maximal Uncertainty Sets in Robust Optimization with Application to Gas Networks” |
| 2019 | EnCN Energiepreis 2019 for master’s thesis “Discrete Selection of Diameters for Constructing optimal Hydrogen Pipeline Networks” |
Publications
Recent Submitted Work / Preprints
- On Coupling Constraints in Pessimistic Linear Bilevel Optimization
Jointly with Dorothee Henke, Henri Lefebvre, Martin Schmidt
Preprint (02/2025) Optimization Online, arXiv - Solving Decision-Dependent Robust Problems as Bilevel Optimization Problems
Jointly with Henri Lefebvre, Simon Stevens, Martin Schmidt
Preprint(02/2025) Optimization Online, arXiv
- BOBILib: Bilevel Optimization (Benchmark) Instance Library
Jointly with Thomas Kleinert, Ivana Ljubic, Ted Ralphs, and Martin Schmidt
Preprint(07/2024) Optimization Online
Website of the library: https://bobilib.org - Using Column Generation in Column-and-Constraint Generation for Adjustable Robust Optimization
Jointly with Henri Lefebvre and Martin Schmidt
Preprint (10/2023): Optimization Online - Learning the Follower’s Objective Function in Sequential Bilevel Games
Jointly with Ioana Molan and Martin Schmidt
Preprint (08/2023): Optimization Online
Selected Journal Articles
- Adjustable Robust Nonlinear Network Design under Demand Uncertainties
Jointly with Julia Grübel and Martin Schmidt
In Mathematical Programming (Series B). 2025 (DOI: 10.1007/s10107-025-02207-2)
Preprint (03/2024; last update: 1/2025): Optimization Online, arXiv
- Connections and Reformulations between Robust and Bilevel Optimization
Jointly with Marc Goerigk, Jannis Kurtz, and Martin Schmidt
In: Open Journal of Mathematical Optimization. 2025 (DOI: 10.5802/ojmo.38)
Preprint (06/2023; last update: 1/2025): Optimization Online, TRR 154 Preprint Server - On Coupling Constraints in Linear Bilevel Optimization
Jointly with Dorothee Henke, Henri Lefebvre, and Martin Schmidt
In: Optimization Letters. 2024. (DOI: 10.1007/s11590-024-02156-3)
Preprint (02/2024; last update 6/2024): Optimization Online, arXiv - An Exact Method for Nonlinear Network Flow Interdiction Problems
Jointly with Martin Schmidt
In: SIAM Journal in Optimization. 2024. (DOI: 10.1137/22M152983X)
Preprint (10/2022; last update 11/2023): Optimization Online, TRR 154 Preprint Server - On a Computationally Ill-Behaved Bilevel Problem with a Continuous and Nonconvex Lower Level
Jointly with Yasmine Beck, Daniel Bienstock, and Martin Schmidt
In: Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications. 2023. (DOI: 10.1007/s10957-023-02238-9)
Preprint (2/2022; last update 5/2023): Optimization Online, TRR 154 Preprint Server, arXiv - Radius of Robust Feasibility for Mixed-Integer Problems
Jointly with Frauke Liers and Lars Schewe
In: INFORMS Journal on Computing. 2021. (DOI: 10.1287/ijoc.2020.1030)
Preprint (05/2019; last update 06/2020) Optimization Online, TRR 154 Preprint Server - Deciding the Feasibility of a Booking in the European Gas Market is coNP-hard
In: Annals of Operations Research. 2022 (DOI: 10.1007/s10479-022-04732-1)
Preprint (05/2020; last update 04/2022): Optimization Online, TRR 154 Preprint Server - Global Optimization for the Multilevel European Gas Market System with Nonlinear Flow Models on Trees
Jointly with Lars Schewe and Martin Schmidt
In: Journal of Global Optimization. 2022. (DOI: 10.1007/s10898-021-01099-8)
Preprint (08/2020; last update 09/2021): Optimization Online, TRR 154 Preprint Server - A Bilevel Optimization Approach to Decide the Feasibility of Bookings in the European Gas Market
Jointly with Fränk Plein, Martine Labbé, and Martin Schmidt
In: Mathematical Methods of Operations Research. 2021. (DOI: 10.1007/s00186-021-00752-y)
Preprint (01/2021; last update 05/2021): Optimization Online, TRR 154 Preprint Server
Conference Articles
- Instance-Optimized String Fingerprints (Extended Abstract)
Jointly with Mihail Stoian, Andreas Zimmerer, Alexander van Renen, and Andreas Kipf
In 6th International Workshop on Applied AI for Database Systems and Applications (AIDB 2025)
Preprint (07/2025; last update 07/2025): arXiv.
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