Dr. Tobias C. Buer CV 8/2020 Address German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech) Faculty of Business & Economics PO Box 1816 Athaibah, PC 130 Oman +968 2206 1181 (Tel. office) [email protected] Residence: Muscat, Oman Education and Academic Titles 11/2013 Professor (§17 Bremisches Hochschulgesetz), Computational Logistics Junior Re- search Group, University of Bremen, Germany 12/2011 Dr. rer. pol. (PhD), Dept. of Information Systems, University of Hagen, Germany Multi-objective winner determination in combinatorial transport auctions (in German) Examiners: Hermann Gehring (chair), Wilhelm Rödder, Helmut Wagner 04/2005 Dipl.-Volksw. (MSc in Economics), University of Hagen, Germany 03/2004 Dipl.-Kfm. (MSc in Business Administration), University of Hagen, Germany 06/2000 Abitur, Friedrich-Alexander-Gymnasium, Neustadt a. d. Aisch, Germany Professional Experience Academia since 09/2018 Associate Professor at the Dept. of Logsitics, Tourism and Serivce Man- agement, German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech), Muscat, Oman 03/2017 – 04/2017 Research visit to Professor Kap-Hwan Kim, Dept. of Industrial Engineer- ing, Pusan National University, Korea. Dr. Tobias C. Buer 2 08/2013 – 7/2018 Professor & Head of Junior Research Group (untenured) Computational Logistics, Faculty of Business Studies & Economics, University of Bremen, Germany 04/2011 – 07/2013 Assistant Professor, Chair of Logistics, Faculty of Business Studies & Eco- nomics, University of Bremen, Germany 04/2006 – 03/2011 Research assistant, Dept. of Information Systems, Faculty of Business Ad- ministration & Economics, University of Hagen, Germany 10/2005 – 03/2006 Graduate assistant, Dept. of Information Systems, Faculty of Business Administration & Economics, University of Hagen, Germany 11/2004 – 10/2005 Student research assistant, Dept. of Information Systems, Faculty of Busi- ness Administration & Economics, University of Hagen, Germany Industry 03/2003 – 03/2011 Occasional free-lancing software development, focus on browser games and web-applications 12/2001 – 12/2003 Software developer of web- and e-commerce applications at Xsite GmbH, Düsseldorf, NW, Germany (part time) 11/2000 – 02/2005 Founder and shareholder of the Level15 GmbH, Düsseldorf, NW, Germany, Chief Executive Officer from 7/2001 to 02/2005 09/2000 – 01/2001 National civil service at the IT-department of the hospital facilities of the rural district Neustadt a. d. Aisch / Bad Windsheim, Bavaria, Germany 06/1996 – 12/2002 Founder/owner of the company ’e-games’, one of the first German mailorder online shops for computer games Research Experience Complete List of Publications and List of Scientific Presentations in the appendix. Research Awards 2013 Best Paper Award of the 11th German Conf. on Multiagent System Technologies (MATES2013) for the paper “Agent-Negotiation of Lot-Sizing Contracts by Simulated Annealing with Part-Way Resets” with Mario Ziebuhr. 2012 Dissertation Award of the German Operations Research Society (GOR e.V.) 2011 Summa cum laude PhD-Thesis University of Hagen Dr. Tobias C. Buer 3 External Research Funding 2017 – 2020 PTOP – Policy-based Terminal Operations Planning Funding agency: Federal Ministry of Education and Research Germany (BMBF) My role: Principal Investigator & project coordinator Partners: Soondo Hong, Pusan National University, Korea; Total Soft Bank Ltd., Korea; ISL Applications GmbH, Germany Funding code: 01DR17022A Funds (in EUR): 356,000, own share 212,000 (funding volume of German partners, Korean separate) When I joined GUtech the project was continued by Dr. Hans-Dietrich Haasis since the funding was non-transferable to Oman. 2015 – 2016 simTOS – Simulation-Based Online Evaluation Engine for Container Terminal Operating System Funding agency: Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany (BMWi / ZIM) My role: Co-Principal Investigator & applicant Partners: Kap Hwan Kim, Pusan National University, Korea; Total Soft Bank Ltd. (coordinator), Korea; ISL Applications GmbH, Germany Funding code: KF3352901 Funds (in EUR): 1,003,000, own share 126,000 2013 – 2018 Computational Logistics, Cooperative Junior Research Group of University of Bremen and ISL – Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics Funding agency: Excellence Initiative, Germany My role: Principal Investigator Funds (in EUR): 450.000, own share 450.000 Comment: open tender process of University of Bremen in line of the Institutional Strategy (“Zukunftskonzept”) 2007 – 2010 IcoTrans – Intelligent cooperative commercial transport planning in an alliance of complementary suppliers Funding agency: Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany (BMWi) My role: Assisted the project coordinator with application Applicants: Giselher Pankratz (coordinator), University of Hagen; Lars Mönch, University of Hagen; Dr. Tobias C. Buer 4 WFS Wurst-Fleischwaren-Service Vertriebsg. mbH; GTS Systems and Consulting GmbH; Globit GmbH Funds (in EUR): 730,000, own share 430,000 Other Experience with Academic Funding – In 2019, I won a GUtech starting grant of 4,000 OMR ( 9,000 EUR) for my project Empty container repositioning in truck-based port drayage. – In 2017, for my five-week research visit to Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea,I obtained a scholarship of 5,000 EUR from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the National Research Foundation South Korea (NRF Korea). – At the Wolfgang-Ritter-Foundation Jens Pöppelbuß and I were awarded 2,000 EUR for the “17th Young Scientists Workshop of Business Informatics”. – In 2014, I applied with Jörg Homberger (TH Stuttgart) for a research grant (“Sachbeihilfe”) of 384,000 EUR at the German Research Foundation (DFG) named Decision making in sup- ply networks: Auction- and voting-based approaches; reviewer opinions 1x negative, 1x positive – I supported members of my research group in recruiting DAAD funds for conference trips. – In 2015, I applied at the Volkswagen Foundation for funding of the “1st LogDynamcis Int. Summer School (LOGISS 2016)” with Till Becker and Jürgen Pannek. Primary and Co-Supervisor of PhD Students – Jonathan Jacob (ongoing), “Collaborative Transport Planning”, Supervisors Buer/Haasis – Dr. Andreas Barz, “Effects of Additive Manufacturing on Distribution Networks”, Supervisors Haasis/Buer – Dr. Andreas Barz, “Effects of Additive Manufacturing on Distribution Networks”, Supervisors Haasis/Buer – Dr. Mario Ziebuhr, “Operative Planning with Exchangeable and Mandatory Tasks”, Super- visors Kopfer/Buer – Dr. Nguyen Khoi Tran, “Studying Network Design in Container Liner Shipping”, Supervisors Haasis/Buer Launching and Organizing of a PhD Summer School Series – Organization of the 3rd LogDynamics Summer School 2018 (July 2018) on “Decision Support in Supply Chain Networks” – Organization of the 2nd LogDynamics Summer School 2017 (July 2017) on “Coopetivtive Control of Supply Chains” – Organization of the 1st LogDynamics Summer School 2016 (March 2016) on “Control Inter- faces in Logistics: Data and Algorithms”. Dr. Tobias C. Buer 5 Teaching Experience For detailed information on all taught courses see List of Courses in the appendix. Courses at GUtech (since 2018) Instructor of undergraduate courses as part of the BSc Logistics program: – Advanced Operations Research and Management – Colloquium Bachelor Thesis – Field Study – DAAD Speciality Course in Aachen, Germany – Field Study – Industrial Project in Neu-Ulm, Germany – IT Systems in Logistics (co-instructor) – Logistics Management – Ocean Shipping and Maritime Logistics (co-instructor) – Production Logistic – Production, Logistic, and Transportation Management – Transportation and Traffic – Warehouse and Inventory Management Instructor of postgraduate and executive education courses as part of the MBA program: – Logistics and Supply Chain Management Courses at University of Bremen (2011-2018) Instructor of undergraduate courses in the BSc Business Studies, BSc Economics, and BSc Industrial Engineering programs: – Logistics Seminar – Operations Research Instructor postgraduate courses in MSc Industrial Engineering program: – Computational Operations Management – Collaborative Transportation (co-instructor) – Heuristics (co-instructor) – Logistics Project II - Modelling of Logistics Systems – Model-Based Group Decision Making – Optimization in Production & Logistics – Port Logistics – Transportation Planning and Control Dr. Tobias C. Buer 6 Courses at University of Hagen (2007 - 2011) Teaching Assistant for postgraduate courses: – Data Modelling and Database Systems – Management Support Systems – Information Management – Business Application Systems and Business Process Modelling Co-Instructor for postgraduate courses (“Hauptstudium”). – Seminar: Information Systems – Seminar: Decision Support Systems – Seminar: Electronic Business and Logistics Contribution to Substantial Redesign of Written Course Books – Information Management Systems (chapter of 160 pages) and – Mobile Business (chapter of 15 pages) for the undergraduate course “Introduction to Infor- mation Systems” by Gehring and Pankratz. Teaching at other Institutions – Transport Networks, Master Logistics of RWTH Aachen at Haus der Technik, Essen – Cooperative Game Theory, Master Logistics of RWTH Aachen at Haus der Technik, Essen – Seaport Logistics, “logIT - Logistics & IT”, further training program of University Bremen – Information Management, VWA Arnsberg, 2006 Primary Supervision of Bachelor and Master Theses – At GUtech I supervised 24 undergraduate theses. – At University of Bremen