Team Profile

About Team Member

Stefan Wolfgang Pickl was born in Darmstadt, Germany on 29th September, 1967.He studied mathematics, electrical engineering and philosophy at the Technical University of Darmstadt (Diploma in 1993; ERASMUS-scholarship at the EPFL Lausanne); doctor’s degree at the TU Darmstadt in 1998 followed by his habilitation at the University of Cologne in 2005. From the years 2000 to 2005 Mr Pickl was scientific assistant and project manager at the Center for applied Computer Sciences in Cologne (ZAIK). In 2000 Mr. Pickl received the phd-thesis award by the German Society for Operations Research; followed by international “best-paper awards” and an international NATO SAS panel award 2021. He received the chair for Operations Research in 2005 at UBw Munich.

He is vice-president of the German Committee for Disaster Reduction (DKKV). There, he is mainly engaged in the analysis and optimization of resilient systems and integrated energy assessment models. He is involved in an actual research project with WHO with a focus on Early Warning Systems, Real-Time Decision Making Processes and “Digitalization & Security”. During the years 2004 to 2022 Mr. Pickl was invited for assignments as visiting-professor in the States, Asia and Europe. As a research fellow Mr Pickl was a “Visiting Scientist” in Los Alamos National Labs, in the SANDIA Laboratory, at the MIT as well as at the Santa Fe Institute for complex systems. He is founding director of COMTESSA (Core Competence Center for Operations Research, Management - Tenacity - Experience, Safety & Security ALLIANCE). Since 2013 he is international coordinator of the innovative security projects RIKOV, REHSTRAIN (Resilience of the Franco-German High Speed Train Network) and REVEARS (Revealing Existing Attack Vulnerabilities in the Rail System).

He is member of Munich Aerospace and House of Logistics and Mobility (HOLM) at Frankfurt Airport. Furthermore, he is associated with

1. Center for the Information Technology and Algorithm CITA (UNLV, USA)
2. Center for Applied Optimization of Central Florida CAO (UCF, USA)
3. Center for Network Innovation and Experimentation CENETIX (NPS, USA)

Prof. Pickl acts as Board Member of International European Graduate School NITIM (Network, Information, Technology, Innovation and Management). In 2020 he was Lead Autor within European Commission - Risk Management Report 2020, Chapter “Communicating Disaster Risk to All - Integrating Tools for Prevention and Response Communication Systems”. He is Board Member of a national Think Tank “Complex Risk Management at German Railway Association”. Prof. Dr. Stefan Pickl is Honorary Chair at The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus.