Leena Suhl (born 1953) is a retired Finnish-German operations researcher specializing in transport scheduling and logistics. She was a professor of business informatics at Paderborn University and the president of the German Operations Research Society.

Early life and education

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Suhl was born in 1953 in Kuopio, Finland.[1] After earning a diploma in industrial mathematics in 1979 from the Helsinki University of Technology and then working in industry, she returned to graduate study and completed a doctorate at the Helsinki University of Technology in 1988. Continuing as a postdoctoral researcher at the Helsinki University of Technology, she earned a habilitation in 1993.[2]

Career and later life

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Suhl became a professor at Paderborn University in 1993, where she held the chair for business informatics and headed the Decision Support & Operations Research Lab until her retirement in 2018.[2][3] Her doctoral students at Paderborn included Natalia Kliewer.[4]

She was elected president of the German Operations Research Society in 2014,[5] serving as president for 2015 and 2016.[3]

Recognition

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In 2018, the German Operations Research Society named Suhl as an honorary member.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Suhl, Leena, German National Library, retrieved 2024-02-26
  2. ^ a b Prof. Dr. Leena Suhl (in German), Paderborn University, retrieved 2024-02-26
  3. ^ a b c Leena Suhl Ehrenmitglied der Gesellschaft für Operations Research (in German), Paderborn University, 28 September 2018, retrieved 2024-02-26
  4. ^ Kliewer, Natalia (2005), Optimierung des Fahrzeugeinsatzes im öffentlichen Personennahverkehr : Modelle, Methoden und praktische Anwendungen (Doctoral dissertation) (in German), Paderborn University
  5. ^ Prof. Dr. Leena Suhl zur Vorstandsvorsitzenden der GOR – Gesellschaft für Operations Research e. V. – gewählt (in German), Paderborn University, 10 September 2014, retrieved 2024-02-26
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