Dr. Ninja Scherr

Telephone: +43-1-4277-38068
Fax: +43-1-4277-8-38068
E-Mail: ninja.scherr@univie.ac.at
Office Hours: On appointment

Curriculum Vitae

02/2021	University Assistant (PostDoc), Chair of Business Analytics, University of Vienna
10/2020 - 01/2021	PostDoc, Decision Support Group, TU Braunschweig
02/2015 - 09/2020	PhD thesis (Dr. rer. pol.), Decision Support Group, TU Braunschweig, title of dissertation: Adaptive State Space Partitioning for Dynamic Vehicle Routing with Stochastic Customer Requests
02/2015 - 09/2020	Research Assistant, Decision Support Group, TU Braunschweig
08/2013 - 12/2014	Master of Science, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech
10/2009 - 03/2013	Bachelor of Science, Industrial Engineering, TU Braunschweig

Scherr N, Reed S, Campbell AM, Thomas BW. Policies for the dynamic same-day delivery problem with walking and parking. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review . 2026 Aug;212:104898. doi: 10.1016/j.tre.2026.104898

Kötschau R, Scherr N , Tilk C , Ehmke JF. Mobile Home Delivery Parcel Lockers. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review . 2025 Jan;193:103867. Epub 2024 Nov 22. doi: 10.1016/j.tre.2024.103867

Päprer P, Joshi K, Scheffler M, Neufeld JS, Ehmke J, Buscher U et al. The rolling stock circulation planning problem: a tutorial with case study. Public Transport. 2025. doi: 10.1007/s12469-025-00408-8

Heitmann RJO, Scherr N, Klawonn F, Ulmer MW, Mattfeld DC. Accelerating value function approximations for dynamic dial-a-ride problems via dimensionality reductions. Computers & Operations Research. 2024 Jul;167:106639. doi: 10.1016/j.cor.2024.106639

Scherr N, Ulmer MW, Mattfeld DC. Balancing resources for dynamic vehicle routing with stochastic customer requests. OR Spectrum. 2024 Feb 15;46(2):331-373. doi: 10.1007/s00291-024-00747-1

Kötschau R, Soeffker N , Ehmke JF. Mobile parcel lockers with individual customer service. Networks. 2023 Dec;82(4):506-526. Epub 2023 Jul 28. doi: 10.1002/net.22173

Heitmann RJO, Soeffker N, Ulmer MW, Mattfeld DC. Combining value function approximation and multiple scenario approach for the effective management of ride-hailing services. EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics. 2023 Jan 24;12:100104. Epub 2023 Jan 24. doi: 10.1016/j.ejtl.2023.100104

Söffker N, Ulmer MW, Mattfeld DC. Stochastic Dynamic Vehicle Routing in the Light of Prescriptive Analytics: A Review. European Journal of Operational Research. 2022 May 1;298(3):801-820. Epub 2021 Jul 16. doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2021.07.014