Every two years, the research institute KOF at ETH Zurich in collaboration with the Düsseldorf Institute of Competition Economics ranks all researchers in Business Administration in three categories: research output in the last 4 years, top scientists under 40 years, and lifetime research achievement. The ranking is published in Wirtschaftswoche, opens an external URL in a new window.

Markus Sinnl (age 34) of the Institute of Production and Logistics Management at JKU is ranked at position 12 for researchers under 40 years of age in the German speaking countries Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and number one considering researchers with only an Austrian affiliation. He is also ranked at position 34 in the general ranking without age restriction.

His research has been published in the leading journals of the field, like Management Science, Operations Research and Omega. His main research interests are in the development of efficient algorithms for hard optimization problems arising in (vehicle) routing, facility location, (social) network analysis, districting, network design, telecommunications or systems biology. He has been awarded the Dissertation prize of the Austrian Operations Research Society and the INFORMS Section on Location Analysis. He is currently the principal investigator of an FWF-project. Previously, he was the principal investigator of an LIT young career project and a JKU Business School seed-project within the interdisciplinary high-impact research call.