Chair of Optimization and Optimal Control
University of Bremen
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
- Digital twins
- Nonlinear optimization
- Optimal control,
- model predictive control autonomous systems, and energy management
- Parametric sensitivity analysis
- Development, analysis, and implementation of high-performance methods
- Numerics of maximum dimensional nonlinear optimization, transcription methods
- Autonomous systems
- Energy management
- Autonomous driving
- Maritime applications
- Aerospace
- Intelligent energy management
- Mobile robotics
- Agriculture
- Software integration
- Industrial mathematics
- Digital twin data management
- Map application
- Modeling, simulation, optimization
Prof. Dr. Christof Büskens
Center for Industrial Mathematics (ZeTeM)
Christof Büskens studied mathematics with a minor in computer science at the University of Münster, specializing in various areas of numerical analysis, and earned his doctorate there with a thesis on transcription methods and methods of parametric sensitivity analysis. In 1999, he joined the Chair of Engineering Mathematics at the University of Bayreuth as a research assistant, where he habilitated in 2002 on the subject of real-time optimization and real-time optimal control. In 2002, he was a visiting scholar at North Carolina State University before continuing his work as a private lecturer at the University of Bayreuth. In 2004, he accepted a professorship in optimization and optimal control at the Center for Technomathematics (ZeTeM – now the Center for Industrial Mathematics) at the University of Bremen. From 2009 to 2019, he was director of the Center for Industrial Mathematics, and from 2021 to 2024, he was a member of the board of the Gauss-Olbers Space Technology Transfer Center (GOC). Since 2007, he has been head of two Steinbeis research centers. Since 2021, he has been Scientific Director of TOPAS Industrial Mathematics and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of ISL – Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics. Since 2022, he has been spokesperson for the large-scale transfer project #MOIN – Model Region Industrial Mathematics. Since 2024, he has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of BIBA – Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik GmbH.