Curriculum Vitae

Paulina Heine

Vienna PhD · Operations Research
Paulina Heine
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Experience

Next step: Denmarkplanned
Research stay · Denmark
University Assistant (Praedoc)
University of Vienna · Vienna, Austria
  • Academic researcher at the Institute for Business Decisions and Analytics
  • Teaching: LP Modeling I (KU, winter term 2026/27), linear programming from modeling to the simplex method
  • Co-developed the course slides with Prof. Dr. Kevin Tierney and Dr. Daniel Wetzel
  • Self-check quizzes for each session: ungraded, with an explanation for every answer option, the wrong ones too
Organizational Assistant, Accounting & Innovation
University of Vienna · Vienna, Austria
  • Coordinated organizational tasks to support research and teaching
Student Assistant, Business Analytics & Decision
University of Vienna · Vienna, Austria
  • Supported research and teaching by analyzing data, optimizing models and creating visualizations
Sustainability Data Analyst
University of Vienna · Vienna, Austria
  • Analyzed University of Vienna mobility data to quantify travel emissions
Internship, Data Science for Finance
Vodafone · Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Developed a prototype for identifying technical devices using image and text recognition with Python
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Education

Praedoc · PhD in Operations Research
University of Vienna · Institute for Business Decisions and Analytics
  • Dissertation project: cost-efficient recovery of drifting ghost nets: an orienteering problem with moving targets
M.Sc. Business Analytics
University of Vienna · Grade: 1.18explore it →read it ↗
  • Master's thesis: moving-target orienteering problem for collecting marine debris in ocean currents
B.Sc. Business Administration & Economics
Bielefeld University · Grade: 2.2explore it →read it ↗
  • Bachelor's thesis: multi-objective TSP variant combining permutation analysis and genetic algorithms
  • Erasmus Semester Budapest, Grade: 1.5
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Awards, talks & activities

OR 2026 · International Conference
German Operations Research Society (GOR) · Passau
IFORS 2026 · International Conference
International Federation of Operational Research Societies
  • Talk: cost-efficient recovery of drifting ghost nets, an orienteering problem with moving targets
Master's thesis ÖGOR Prize 2026
Austrian Society of Operations Research (ÖGOR)
  • Awarded for the master's thesis on collecting drifting marine debris
OR 2025 · International Conference
German Operations Research Society (GOR) · Bielefeld
  • Presented master's thesis in the Heuristics stream
Summer School, Multi-Objective Optimization 1st Prize
University of Jyväskylä · Finland
  • Awarded first prize in the poster contest
Sustainability Challenge
University of Vienna · Sonnentor
  • AI-based supply chain strategies for Sonnentor
European Investment Bank Summer School
Luxembourg
  • Environmental impact assessments and sustainable project financing
Bachelor's thesis GOR Prize 2022
German Operations Research Society (GOR)
  • Award for special academic achievements in Operations Research
European Student Parliament
Toulouse, France
  • Representative for Germany, 'The Future of Mobility'
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Publications

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Places

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    Languages

    German
    Native
    English
    C1 · TOEFL