Dr. 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., Otto, A. and Gendreau, M. (2024). Exact solution approaches for the order batching, sequencing, and picker routing problem with release times. Working Paper Series of the Chair of Management Science, Operations and Supply Chain Management of the University of Passau. Access here.
Lorenz, C., Otto, A. and Gendrau, M. (2024). Reoptimization in Picker-to-Parts Warehouses in E-Commerce: Asymptotic Analysis. Book of Extended Abstracts. Ninth International Workshop on Freight Transportation and Logistics (Odysseus 2024), May 19-24 2024, Carmona, Spain.
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)