Prof. Dr. Pirmin Fontaine

Full Professor of Logistics and Operations Analytics

Phone +49 841 937-21982
E-mail pirmin.fontaine@ku.de

Room: NB-217

Postal Address
Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Auf der Schanz 49
85049 Ingolstadt

Office hours
By appointment

Academic career and positions held to date

since 04/2024: Full professor of Logistcs and Operations Analytics, Ingolstadt School of Mangement, CU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
since 02/2024: Full member at the Mathematical Institute for Machine Learning and Data Science (MIDS)
since 23/2024: Collaborative member at the CIRRELT, Montreal, Canada
06/2019 - 03/2024: Assistant professor of Operations Management, Ingolstadt School of Mangement, CU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
10/2017 - 05/2019: Senior research associate (Akad. Rat a.Z.) at the Department of Logistics and Supply Chain Management (Prof. Dr. Minner); TU Munich
03/2018: Research visit at the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria Politecnico di Milano (Prof. Ola Jabali); Milan, Italy
10/2016 - 09/2017: Post-Doc at the CIRRELT and the École des sciences de la gestion at the Université du Québec à Montréal (Prof. Teodor Gabriel Crainic, Prof. Walter Rei, Prof. Ola Jabali); Montreal; Canada
07/2016 - 09/2016: Post-Doc at the Department of Logistics and Supply Chain Management (Prof. Dr. Minner); TU Munich
06/2012-07/2016: Research associate at the Department of Logistics and Supply Chain Management (Prof. Dr. Minner); TU Munich
2016: Ph.D. (Dr. rer. pol.) on the topic "Methodological Advances and New Formulations for Bilevel Network Design Problems" in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, School of Management; TU Munich
2012-2016: Doctoral studies at the Department of Logistics and Supply Chain Management (Prof. Dr. Minner); TU Munich
09/2015 - 01/2016: Research visit at CIRRELT (Prof. Teodor Crainic); Montreal; Canada
2012: Graduation as Diplom-Mathematiker (Univ.)
2009-2010: Study of Algorithms Design at Chalmers Tekniska Högskola; Gothenburg (Sweden)
2006-2012: Undergraduate and graduate studies of mathematics with major in discrete optimization at TU Munich

Honors and awards

2023: Best Teaching Award at WFI
2022: Top 100 in the Wirtschaftswoche Business Researching Ranking (#83 out of 3600)
2022: Top 50 in the Wirtschaftswoche Rising Star (under 40) Business Researching Ranking (#43
out of 500)
2022: Research Award of the Rotary Club Ingolstadt
2018: DAAD travel scholarship for the Odysseus Conference 2018
2017: Dissertation award of the German Society for Operations Research (GOR e.V.)
2016: DAAD travel scholarship for the Tristan Symposium 2016
2015: Full scholarship for the International Workshop on Bilevel Programming
2015: DAAD PhD exchange scholarship for the research stay at CIRRELT
2010: ERASMUS scholarship
2005: „Pierre-de-Coubertin“-price

Editorial activities

Member of the Editorial Board: Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review