Catherine Lorenz
Scientific employee
(HK 12) Room 119
Dr.-Hans-Kapfinger-Straße 12
94032 Passau
Tel.: +49 851 509-2523
Email: Catherine Lorenz
Office hours:
by appointment
- Planning of autonomous mobile robots
- Picking und Batching problems in modern warehousing
- (Approximate) dynamic programming approaches for routing problems
- (Competitive) Analysis of online algorithms in dynamic settings
- Lorenz, C. (2023). On design strategies for online algorithms to tackle batching- and picker routing problems in manual and robotized warehouses. Research presented at GPOM Conference 2023 (Süd-Workshop Quantitative Methoden, SWQM), January 20 2023, Augsburg.
- Lorenz, C, Mimmo, N., Otto, A. and Vigo, D. (2022) Polynomial approximate dynamic programming scheme for the weight constrained two-echelon routing problem with a drone. Book of Extended Abstracts.11th Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis conference (TRISTAN XI) June 19-25, 2022, Mauritius Island
- Lorenz,C., Mimmo, N., Otto, A. and Vigo, D. (2022) Very large-scale neighborhood search for drone routing with energy replenishment. Working paper. Arxiv, arXiv:2207.13940
- Lorenz, C., Otto, A. (2022). Routing of a robot and a mobile battery swap station with very large-scale neighborhood search. Book of Extended Abstracts. Eighth International Workshop on Freight Transportation and Logistics (Odysseus 2021), May 4-9 2022, Tangier, Morocco.
- Lorenz, C. (2021). A Very Large Scaled Neighborhood Search for the drone routing problem with mobile charging station. Research presented at GPOM Conference 2021 (Süd-Workshop Quantitative Methoden, SWQM), January 15 2021, online.
- 12/2023: OMEGA Best Reviewer Award 2023
- 01/2022: 1. Prize at the “Science Slam” of the University of Passau, from 24.01.2022
- Master Seminar in Management Science - "Advanced topics in the design and application of online algorithms for the solution of dynamic optimization problems in production and logistics" (ST23)
- Bachelor Seminar in Management Science - "Intelligent planning of production and logistic processes in real-time environments: Exploring approaches from mathematical optimization " (ST23)
- Coursemanagement of Fundamentals of Business Analytics (WT21/22, ST22)
- Exercise class Supply Chain und Operations Management (WT20/21, ST21, WT21/22, WT22/23)
- Master Seminar in Management Science - "Scheduling Mobile Robots" (ST20)
- Since 2020 scientific employee and doctoral student at the chair of Management Science / Operations and Supply Chain Management, University of Passau
- 2016-2019 Master studies (M.Sc.) Mathematics at the Technical University of Munich
- 2013- 2016 Bachelor studies (B.Sc.) Mathematics at the Technical University of Munich
Job experience/ Internships:
- SAP (2019)
- IDS Investment Data Services (2017-2018)
- Finanzchef24 (2015-2016)