Dr. Günter Kiechle
| Position: | Research & Development | Head of Dept. |
| Department: | CLL -- Computational Logistics Lab |
| Topic: | Intelligent Mobility |
| Telephone: | +43/662/2288-421 |
| e-mail: | Write an e-mail |
Scientific area
Dr. Günter Kiechle is head of the research department Computational Logistics Lab (CLL) at Salzburg Researchand key researcher in the field of optimisation in transportation and logistics.
His particular research interests are:
- Heuristic and metaheuristic solution procedures for combinatorial optimization problems in transportation and logistics, e.g. in health care
- Efficient shortest path routing and geographic information in transportation and logistics
- Decision support systems for vehicle routing and scheduling
Background / Expertise
Günter Kiechle received his master degree in Economics and Computer Science at the Technical University of Vienna in 2002. He was research assistant from 2003 to 2004 at the Department of Business Administration, Chair of Production and Logistics at the University of Vienna. Since 2004, Günter Kiechle is researcher and project manager at Salzburg Research. In 2010 he was promoted to head of research team Transportation Optimization and in 2012 to head of research department Computational Logistics Lab.
From 2004 until 2007 Günter Kiechle was working on several projects dealing with mobile and location based services in tourism, especially mobile tour guide applications. Since 2007, he has been working on the integration of geographic information systems and optimization algorithms in real world application scenarios. His tasks in a number of projects were the development of heuristic and metaheuristic optimization procedures for vehicle routing problems and their implementation as efficient solution algorithms.
In 2009, Günter Kiechle finished his PhD thesis entitled “Solution Procedures for Real-World Vehicle Routing Problems in Health Care”. It deals with two selected Vehicle Routing Problems in health care, which are both motivated from real world vehicle dispatching tasks. The first selected problem is about transportation of patients from and to hospitals while the second one deals with scheduling vehicles for the collection of blood donations.
Günter Kiechle is certified project manager (IPMA, level C). He is currently responsible for several research projects dealing with optimization in transportation and logistics.
