Markus Leitner is an Associate Professor at the Department of Operations Analytics at the School of Business and Economics, VU Amsterdam.

Markus Leitner received his PhD (Dr. techn.) in Computer Science from the Vienna University of Technology in 2010 and his habilitation (venia docendi) in Operations Research from the University of Vienna in 2016. Before joining VU Amsterdam, he was employed as a fixed term Assistant Professor (University Assistant) at the University of Vienna. Prior to that he was a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at Vienna University of Technology, University of Vienna and Université libre de Bruxelles. He was also a visiting researcher at the Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT) in Montreal, Canada.

Markus is an Associate Editor of the INFORMS Journal on Computing (Area: Nework Optimization), Omega (Area: Production Management, Scheduling and Logistics), and Networks. He is also serving as a Member of Council of the INFORMS Section on Telecommunication and Network Analytics. He is also regularly involved in program committees of scientific conferences such as, e.g., ISCO 2023, INOC 2022, EURO 2019, INOC 2019, or the TSL Workshop 2019.