Awards

07.06.2025	Mr. Felix Neussel, who wrote his Master's thesis "Theory and Application of Local Duality and Parametric Reformulations for Local Lagrangian Convexification" under the supervision of Prof. Stein at our institute, is awarded the Faculty Prize 2025 for it.
01.07.2023	Mr. Maximilian Bree, who wrote his Master's thesis "Pareto Front Approximations and Nonconvex Semivectorial Bilevel Optimization" under the supervision of Prof. Stein at our institute, is awarded the Faculty Prize 2023 for it.
02.06.2022	As part of the Hector Teaching Awards for the 2019/2020 cohort, Prof. Dr. Oliver Stein is awarded a 1st Prize.
30.05.2022	Dr. Christoph Neumann receives the Science Award 2021 of the KIT Faculty of Economics for his dissertation "Inner Parallel Sets in Mixed-Integer Optimization".
30.05.2022	Mr. Stefan Schwarze, who wrote his Master's thesis "Solution Methods for Discrete Nash Equilibrium Problems" under the supervision of Prof. Stein at our institute, is awarded the Faculty Prize 2022 for it.
23.02.2022	Prof. Dr. Oliver Stein is honored as a EUROPT Fellow 2022 by the EURO Working Group on Continuous Optimization for outstanding research achievements in continuous optimization.
19.10.2021	Mr. Maximilian Volk, who wrote his Bachelor's thesis "Solution Concepts in Continuous Multiobjective Optimization" under the supervision of Prof. Stein at our institute, is awarded the GOR Bachelor Prize 2021 for it.
10.11.2020	Dr. Peter Kirst receives the Science Award 2019 of the KIT Faculty of Economics for his dissertation "Disjunctive Aspects in Generalized Semi-infinite Programming". Dr. Robert Mohr, Dr. Nathan Sudermann-Merx and Prof. Dr. Oliver Stein each receive a Teaching Award for Excellent Teaching in the winter term 2019/2020.
22.06.2020	Mr. Jorge Cárdenas Prieto, who wrote his Master's thesis "Flexible-Echelon Distribution Network Design with Inventory Management under Demand Uncertainty" under the supervision of Dr. Mohr, Dr. Sudermann-Merx (BASF SE), and Dr. Klosterhalfen (BASF SE) at our institute, is awarded the Faculty Prize 2020 for it.
24.04.2019	Ms. Laura Meng, who wrote her Master's thesis "Multi-Objective Optimization and Branch-and-Bound Algorithms" under the supervision of Prof. Stein and Dr. Kirst at our institute, is awarded the Faculty Prize 2019 for it.
16.06.2018	Mr. Christoph Neumann, who wrote his Master's thesis "A Feasible Rounding Approach for Mixed-Integer Optimization Problems" under the supervision of Prof. Stein at our institute, is awarded the Faculty Prize 2018 for it.
19.01.2018	Prof. Dr. Oliver Stein receives a Hector Teaching Award for the 2015/2016 cohort.
13.12.2017	Mr. Robert Mohr, Mr. Christoph Neumann and Prof. Dr. Oliver Stein each receive Teaching Awards for Excellent Teaching in the winter term 2016/2017.
13.12.2017	Dr. Nathan Sudermann-Merx receives the Science Award 2016 of the KIT Faculty of Economics for his dissertation "Linear Generalized Nash Equilibrium Problems".
18.07.2017	Mr. Simon Harlacher, who wrote his Master's thesis "Prescriptive Analytics for Multi-Echelon Spare Parts Inventory Management" under the supervision of M. Sc. Robert Mohr at our institute, is awarded the Faculty Prize 2017 for it.
12.01.2017	As part of the Hector Teaching Awards for the 2014/2015 cohort, Prof. Dr. Oliver Stein is awarded a 1st Prize.
27.04.2016	Mr. Frank-Wido Hofstetter, who wrote his Master's thesis "A Branch-and-Bound Method on Simplices" under the supervision of Prof. Stein and Dipl.-Math. Paul Steuermann at our institute, is awarded the Faculty Prize 2016 for it.
15.06.2013	Mr. Philip Grefe, who wrote his Bachelor's thesis "A Newton Method Approach for Generalized Nash Equilibrium Problems" under the supervision of Prof. Stein at our institute, is awarded the GOR Bachelor Prize 2013 for it.
08.05.2013	Mr. Peter Kirst, who wrote his Diploma thesis "Global Optimization under Nonlinear Constraints" under the supervision of Prof. Stein and Dipl.-Math. Paul Steuermann at our institute, is awarded the Faculty Prize 2013 for it.
27.04.2010	Mr. Fabian Dunke, who wrote his Diploma thesis "Global Solution Methods for Concave Minimization Problems with Applications to Network Flow Problems" under the supervision of Prof. Stein at our institute, is awarded the Faculty Prize 2010 for it.