Patrick Hirsch

Career

• 2025 Head of the Institute of Production Economics and Logistics
• 2017 Associate Professor
• 2017 Study Programme Coordinator Doctoral Studies of Social and Economic Sciences
• 2016 Habilitation
• 2013 Research stay at the Department of Statistics and Operations Research (UPNA, Pamplona) and in the research program Internet Computing & Systems Optimization (UOC, Barcelona)
• 2013 - 2016 Assistant Professor (tenure track)
• 2012 - 2024 Managing Partner of ingentus decision support KG
• 2008 - 2014 Visiting lecturer at the Universidad Publica de Navarra, Pamplona - Spain
• 2007 - 2012 Assistant Professor
• 2006 Doctorate (University of Vienna)
• 2004 - 2013 Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences FH Campus Wien for Business Administration, Economics, and Cost Accounting
• 2003 - 2006 Graduate Research Assistant
• 1996 - 2002 Traffic Clerk, Austrian Airlines AG / Project manager, technical and commercial officer (part-time during studies), Klinger Fluid Control GmbH

Awards

• Year: 2024 Awards: BOKU Best Paper Award gemeinsam mit Yvonne Kummer und Lena Youhanan (Jubiläumsfonds der Stadt Wien): Operational analysis and optimization of a water-based municipal solid waste management system with hybrid simulation modeling.
• Year: 2023 Awards: International Transactions in Operational Research (ITOR) runner-up Best Paper Award 2023 for the publication "Agile optimization of a two-echelon vehicle routing problem with pickup and delivery"
• Year: 2022 Awards: BOKU Best Paper Award mit Sonja Maria Russo und Jana Vögl (Jubiläumsfonds der Stadt Wien): A multi-method approach to design urban logistics hubs for cooperative use. Sustainable Cities and Society.
• Year: 2021 Awards: BOKU Lehrpreis
• Year: 2021 Awards: Meritorious Reviewer Award - INFORMS Journal on Computing
• Year: 2014 Awards: Raiffeisen Science & Innovation Award 2014 - Publication Award: Fikar, C., Hirsch, P., A matheuristic for routing real-world home service transport systems facilitating walking, Journal of Cleaner Production (2014)
• Year: 2008 Awards: 1. Preis des Förderpreises der Bundesvereinigung des Holztransport-Gewerbes e.V. für wissenschaftliche Arbeiten zum Thema Holztransport http://www.bdhg.de
• Year: 2008 Awards: 1. Preis in der Kategorie „Poster das am meisten zum Nachdenken angeregt hat“ am 10. Österreichischen Klimatag
• Year: 2008 Awards: Peter Faller Nachwuchsförderpreis 2007 in der Kategorie Dissertation http://www.oevg.at
• Year: 1995 Awards: Ehrenring des Absolventenvereins der HTL Mödling http://www.htl-absolvent.at/ehrenringe.html