Dr. Catherine Lorenz
Research Fellow | Laboratoire Energie & Mobilité (eMOB Lab), Université Gustave Eiffel
• From 10/2025: Research Fellow at laboratoire Energie & Mobilité (eMOB Lab.), at the Université Gustave Eiffel, Lyon, France
• 02/2020-09/2025: Scientific employee at the Chair of Management Science / Operations and Supply Chain Management, University of Passau.
• From 10/2025: Research Fellow at laboratoire Energie & Mobilité (eMOB Lab.), at the Université Gustave Eiffel, Lyon, France
• 02/2020-09/2025: Scientific employee at the Chair of Management Science / Operations and Supply Chain Management, University of Passau.
Education
• PhD in Operations Research, University of Passau, Germany (summa cum laude, 2024)
Cotutelle (double-degree PhD) with Università di Bologna, Italy
Dissertation: Studies on optimization problems with dynamically arriving information
• M.Sc. in Mathematics, Technical University of Munich, Germany
• B.Sc. in Mathematics, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Research Interests
Dynamic optimization in real-time applications, including disaster and healthcare logistics, warehousing, and transportation planning.
Algorithmic performance guarantees, stochastic/competitive analysis, queueing theory, and Markov decision processes.
Selected Publications
• Lorenz, C., Otto, A., & Gendreau, M. (in press). Picking operations in warehouses with dynamically arriving orders: How good is reoptimization? Networks.
• Otto, A., Golden, B., Lorenz, C., et al. (2024). On delivery policies for a truck-and-drone tandem in disaster relief. IISE Transactions.
Awards
• OMEGA Best Reviewer Award (2023)
• 1st Prize, Science Slam, University of Passau