Michael BortzMichael Bortz studied Physics in Dortmund and Grenoble. He received his Ph.D. in many particle physics at Dortmund University in 2003. After that, he worked as a PostDoc at universities in Wuppertal, Canberra (Australian National University), Oxford,and Kaiserslautern. In 2009 he joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics in Kaiserslautern, where he is now leading the department for optimization of technical processes. His research interests are in modeling, simulating, and optimizing processes in different application domains, including medical therapy planning, mechanical, and chemical engineering. He has realized numerous projects with cooperation partners from the chemical industry, leveraging the benefit of interactive decision support. Since 2021, he is associate professor at the Technical University Kaiserslautern. Read More Read Less