Franz Josef Radermacher is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 mathematician

Mathematician

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 and economist

Economist

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, Professor of Informatics

Informatics (academic field)

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 at Ulm University. He is one of the co-founders of the Global Marshall Plan

Global Marshall Plan

The Global Marshall Plan is a plan first devised by former American Vice-President Al Gore in his bestselling book Earth in the Balance, which gives specific ideas on how to save the global environment....

 Initiative that suggests a socio-ecological plan to eradicate poverty, increasing global wealth while protecting natural resources.

Scientific career

Radermacher earned a PhD in Mathematics from RWTH Aachen

RWTH Aachen

RWTH Aachen University is a research university located in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with roughly 33,000 students enrolled in 101 study programs....

 in 1974. He earned a second PhD in Economics from the University of Karlsruhe in 1976. From 1983 till 1987, Radermacher was Professor for Applied Computer Science at the University of Passau

University of Passau

The University of Passau is a public research university located in Passau, Lower Bavaria, Germany. Founded in 1978, it is the youngest university in Bavaria and has therefore the most modern campus in the state...

. Since 1987 he is Professor for Artificial Intelligence and Databases at the University of Ulm

University of Ulm

The University of Ulm is a public university in the city of Ulm, in the South German state of Baden-Württemberg. The university was founded in 1967 and focuses on natural sciences, medicine, engineering sciences, mathematics, economics and computer science...

. From 1988 till 1992 he was the President of the Society for Mathematics, Economics and Operations Research. Radermacher is a world-renowned expert in the fields of globalization, innovation, overpopulation and global sustainable development.

He was awarded the Planetary Consciousness Prize in 2004 by the Club of Budapest

Club of Budapest

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Publications

FJ Radermacher: The Importance of Metaknowledge for Environmental Information Systems, Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Advances in Spatial Databases

RH Möhring, R Müller and FJ Radermacher: Advanced DSS for scheduling: software engineering aspects and the role of Eigenmodels, Annals of Operations Research

RH Mohring, FJ Radermacher: Introduction to stochastic scheduling problems, Contributions to operations research

R Kalakota, FJ Radermacher: Electronic commerce: building blocks of new business opportunity, Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce

M Bartusch, RH Mohring, FJ Radermacher: M-Machine Unit Time Scheduling: A Report on Ongoing Research, Lecture notes in economics and mathematical systems

O Günther, FJ Radermacher, WF Riekert: Environmental monitoring: Models, methods, and systems, Environmental Informatics

FJ Radermacher: Global Marshall Plan:: a Planetary Contract, [globalmarshallplan.org Global Marshall Plan]

T Schauer, FJ Radermacher: The Challenge of the Digital Divide: Promoting a Global Society Dialogue, University of Ulm Publishing Group