Teaching

Teaching of Michael Römer at Bielefeld University: courses, teaching awards and thesis supervision.

I teach Operations Research, algorithms and decision analytics in the Bachelor’s, Master’s and doctoral programs of the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics. My courses combine modeling with hands-on programming in Python, and many include projects with partners from practice.

Teaching awards

  • Best Master’s course of the faculty, summer term 2026: Combining OR and Data Science
  • Best Bachelor’s course of the faculty, winter terms 2025/26 and 2023/24: Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen
  • Nominated by students for the university-wide Karl-Peter-Grotemeyer Prize for excellent teaching (2024)
  • Top 3 courses of the faculty in 2023, 2024 and 2025

Courses at Bielefeld University

MSc Combining OR and Data Science · Decision Analytics Project (with industry partners)
BSc Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen · Entscheidungstheorie · Einführung in Operations Research
PhD Decision-Focused Analytics · Dynamic Programming Models

Earlier, I taught courses on simulation, network optimization and transport logistics, and Operations Research at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, TU Braunschweig and Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg.

Theses

I supervise Bachelor’s and Master’s theses in Operations Research, optimization and decision analytics, often in cooperation with companies and institutions. If you are interested, please get in touch.