Dr. Jan Boeckmann Postdoctoral Researcher

Professional Background Since October 2026: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chair of "Statistics and Quantitative Methods in Economics" at the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt 

October 2025 – October 2026: Chairholder (interim/acting) for "Statistics and Quantitative Methods in Economics" at the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt 

January 2024 – September 2025: Postdoctoral Researcher at Johannes Kepler University Linz 

October 2023 – March 2024: Lecturer at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt for the course "Inductive and Multivariate Statistics"

 April 2020 – March 2023: Doctoral Candidate at the TUM Campus Straubing; completed PhD with the thesis "Algorithms for Municipal Flood Mitigation, Related Interdiction Problems, and Knapsack Problems" 

May 2019 – March 2020: Doctoral Candidate at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, focusing on optimization algorithms for heavy rainfall mitigation

 April 2017 – April 2019: Data Scientist at Five1 GmbH, specializing in predictive analytics and discrete optimization Awards and Honors 2025: Finalist for the Edison Award Linz 

2024: Recipient of the EURO Prize for OR for the Common Good (with Clemens Thielen) Research Interests Machine Learning Discrete Optimization Heavy Rainfall Mitigation Approximation Algorithms and Complexity Theory.

Publikations: 

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