Gustav Feichtinger - Curriculum Vitae#
Academic Data and Professional Experience
- University of Vienna (Mathematics and Physics) 1958 - 1963
- Ph.D. in Mathematics (Algebra) 1963
- IBM Research Laboratory Vienna 1964 – 1965
- University of Bonn (Statistics and Operations Research, Assistant and Associate Professor) 1965 - 1972
- Habilitation in Statistics (Demography) 1970
- University of Technology Vienna (Full Professor for Operations Research) since 1972
- Head of the Research Group ORDYS (Operations Research and Nonlinear Dynamical Systems) at the Institute for Mathematical Methods in Economics
- Head of the Division for Theoretical Demography at the Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences from 1977-2002
- Part-time position at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)1992 - 2004
- Vienna Institute for Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Head of Division for Population Economics since 2002
- Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2001
- Honorary Doctorate of the Faculty for Economics of the University of Magdeburg in 2007
Research Interests
- Applications of optimal control theory and dynamic games in economics and OR/MS
- Nonlinear dynamic modeling of socio-economic processes, social interactions
- Population mathematics, demo-economics
- Economics of 'deviant behaviour': addiction, corruption, violence, terrorism
- Dynamic cost-benefit analysis in public policy, epidemiology (illicit drug dynamics, HIV)
- Health economics
Memberships
- Austrian Society for Mathematics (ÖMG)
- Austrian Society for Operations Research (ÖGOR)
- European Society for Population Economics (ESPE)
- German Society for Operations Research (GOR)
- International Society for Dynamic Games (ISDG)
- Ausschuss für Bevölkerungsökonomik (Verein für Socialpolitik)
- International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP)
Associate Editorships
- Central European Journal of Operations Research (CEJOR)
- International Abstracts in Operations Research (IAOR)
- International Game Theory Review (IGTR)
- Journal of Optimization Theory and Application (JOTA)
