Alexander Rave
Dr.
Alexander
Rave
PostDoc
Room: NB-219
Research focus
- Last-Mile Delivery
- Drone Delivery
- Fleet Planning
Teaching
- Operations Research
- Operations Scheduling
- Seminar Supply Chain Management & Operations Research
- Final Thesis
Academic Education
- Since 10/2019: Research Associate at the Chait of ABWL, Supply Chain Management & Operations
- 10/2017 – 03/2020: MSc in Business Analytics & Operations Research at Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, exchange semester at Universitatea Babes-Bolyai (Cluj, Romania)
- 10/2014 – 09/2017: BSc in Business Administration at Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster
- 10/2011 – 02/2015: BSc in Mathematics at Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Publications
- Rave, A., Fontaine, P., & Kuhn, H. (2025). Cyclic stochastic two-echelon inventory routing for an application in medical supply. European Journal of Operational Research. fothcoming.
- Rave, A., & Fontaine, P. (2025). The location routing problem with time windows and load-dependent travel times for cargo bikes. European Journal of Operational Research, 323(1), 97-107.
- Rave, A. (2024). Two-indexed formulation of the traveling salesman problem with multiple drones performing sidekicks and loops. OR Spectrum, 1-38.
- Rave, A., Fontaine, P., & Kuhn, H. (2022). Drone location and vehicle fleet planning with trucks and aerial drones. European Journal of Operational Research, 308(1), 113-130.
Conferences
- Osysseus (2024) in Sevilla, Spain
- OR (2023) in Hamburg, Germany
- EURO Conference (2022) in Espoo, Finland
- Odysseus Conference (2022) in Tangier, Morocco
- OR (2021) in Bern, Switzerland