Nonlinear Flows Meet Bilevel and Robust Optimization
EUROPT 2026
Linz, Austria
About
Professor of Nonlinear Optimization at Trier University.
I am Professor of Nonlinear Optimization at Trier University. My research develops theory and algorithms for bilevel, mixed-integer, nonlinear, robust, equilibrium, and network optimization, with applications including energy systems.
Contact
Martin SchmidtTrier UniversityDepartment of MathematicsUniversitätsring 1554296 TrierGermany
Academic Positions
Full Professor (W3) for Nonlinear Optimization
Trier University
Deputy Professorship “Nonlinear Optimization”
Trier University
Junior Professor (W1) for Optimization of Energy Systems
FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Positive Evaluation as Junior Professor
FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Postdoctoral researcher
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Research assistant
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Research assistant
Zuse Institute Berlin
Simultaneously guest researcher at Leibniz Universität Hannover
Education
PhD in Mathematics
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Diplom in Mathematics
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Minor: Computer Science
Academic Leadership & Service
Speaker
Research Training Group Algorithmic Optimization (ALOP), Trier University
Speaker of the Department of Mathematics
Trier University
Vice Speaker
Research Training Group Algorithmic Optimization (ALOP), Trier University
Member of the Founding Committee
Bilevel Optimization Society
Affiliations & Fellowships
Member of the International Scientific Committee
Instituto Universitario de Investigación de Matemáticas y Aplicaciones, Universidad de Zaragoza
Fellow
SFB/TRR 154
Fellow
Energie Campus Nürnberg
Member of the Extended Scientific Board
Energie Campus Nürnberg
Secondary Member
Faculty of Business, Economics, and Law, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Awards & Honors
EURO Best EJOR Paper Award 2025 – Review Category
For A survey on bilevel optimization under uncertainty · Yasmine Beck, Ivana Ljubić, Martin Schmidt
Editor of Distinction Awards 2025 – Editorial Contribution Award 2025
Optimization Letters
Optimization Letters Best Paper Award 2021
For Closing the Gap in Linear Bilevel Optimization: A New Valid Primal-Dual Inequality · Thomas Kleinert, Martine Labbé, Fränk Plein, Martin Schmidt
Marguerite Frank Award for the Best EJCO Paper in 2021
For A Survey on Mixed-Integer Programming Techniques in Bilevel Optimization · Thomas Kleinert, Martine Labbé, Ivana Ljubic, Martin Schmidt
MMOR Best Paper Award 2021
For A Bilevel Optimization Approach to Decide the Feasibility of Bookings in the European Gas Market · Fränk Plein, Johannes Thürauf, Martine Labbé, Martin Schmidt
First Prize, Scientific Category
ROADEF/EURO Challenge 2020
Grid-operation-based outage maintenance planning · With Diego Cattaruzza, Martine Labbé, Matteo Petris, and Marius Roland
Howard Rosenbrock Prize 2020
For the best paper published in Optimization and Engineering in 2020
For Bookings in the European Gas Market: Characterisation of Feasibility and Computational Complexity Results · Martine Labbé, Fränk Plein, Martin Schmidt
EURO Excellence in Practice Award
Award for Excellent Student Performance
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Leibniz Universität Hannover
Editorial Service
European Journal of Operational Research
Editorial Board Member
Journal of Global Optimization
Editorial Board Member
Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications
Editorial Board Member
Optimization Letters
Editorial Board Member
OR Spectrum
Associate Editor
EURO Journal on Computational Optimization
Associate Editor
Mathematical Programming Computation
Technical Editor
Reviewing Activity
I have reviewed for more than 40 journals and other scholarly venues in mathematical optimization, operations research, applied mathematics, and energy systems.
Selected venues: Mathematical Programming A · Mathematical Programming B · Mathematical Programming C · SIAM Journal on Optimization · European Journal of Operational Research · INFORMS Journal on Computing
View full reviewing activitySelected (Semi-)Plenary & Keynote Talks
A Gentle and Incomplete Introduction to Linear Bilevel Optimization … and a Tiny New Result
5th EUROYoung Workshop 2025
Naples, Italy
The Burial of Coupling Constraints in Linear Bilevel Optimization
Global Optimization Workshop 2025
Stockholm, Sweden
A Gentle and Incomplete Introduction to Bilevel Optimization
24th edition of the Belgian Mathematical Optimization Workshop
La Roche-en-Ardennes, Belgium
Matchmaking Bilevel and (Γ-)Robust Optimization
International Conference on Bilevel Optimization
Southampton, UK
Block Decomposition of Large-Scale MINLPs and (Penalty) Alternating Direction Methods
III Sevilla MINLP Workshop
University of Seville, IMUS, Spain
Some Recent Results and Thoughts on Bilevel Optimization Under Uncertainty
Dagstuhl seminar “Optimization at the Second Level”
Dagstuhl, Germany
Recent algorithmic advances in bilevel optimization
32nd EURO Conference
Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
Multilevel Optimization: Basics, an Application to the European Gas Market, and an Open Research Problem
SIAM UKIE National Student Chapter Conference
University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Introductory Courses & Schools
A Gentle and Incomplete Introduction to Bilevel Optimization … and Some New Results
Summer school of the EUROPT 2026
Linz, Austria
A Gentle and Incomplete Introduction to Bilevel Optimization … and Some New Results
Autumn School “Equilibrium Problems” of the SFB Transregio 154 “Mathematische Modellierung, Simulation und Optimierung am Beispiel von Gasnetzwerken” · Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Berlin, Germany
A Gentle and Incomplete Introduction to Bilevel Optimization
11th Winter School on Network Optimization
Estoril, Portugal
A Primer on Bilevel and Robust Optimization
3rd International Workshop on Bilevel Optimization – IWOBIP'24
Rancagua, Chile
A Gentle and Incomplete Introduction to Bilevel Optimization
UNIVERS Winter School on Optimization, Games and Markets · TU Chemnitz
A Gentle and Incomplete Introduction to Bilevel Optimization
JPOC Spring School on MINLP and Bilevel Problems
Paris (lecture series via Zoom) · Online
Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization
JPOC Spring School on MINLP and Bilevel Problems
Paris (lecture series via Zoom) · Online