Draft:Alexander Scherrer

Alexander Scherrer studied mathematics at Technical University of Kaiserslautern, graduated with a diploma in 2001 and obtained his doctorate in 2006^[1]. Since 2001, he works at Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM in various positions and conducts research in applied mathematics, mainly for the life sciences, and also in process engineering^[2]. In 2006, he was a visiting postdoctoral researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital, and from 2006 until 2007 he was an associate lecturer at the Faculty of Mathematics at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern. In 2011, he was a lecturer at the Felix Klein Center for Mathematics^[3][4]. In 2025, he was appointed to a full professorship at the Heidelberg University Faculty of Medicine in Mannheim and took up this position in 2026^[5].

At Fraunhofer ITWM, Alexander Scherrer initially conducted research into the optimization of radiation therapy plans^[6]. The methods developed at ITWM were put into clinical use by Varian Medical Systems in the form of an innovative medical software for radiotherapy planning^[7]. He was honoured as a member of the respective project groups for research projects on radiotherapy by the Donors' Association for the Promotion of Sciences and Humanities in Germany and the European Association of Research and Technology Organisations (EARTO)^[8][9]. He also conducted research into process optimisation in chemical engineering^[10][11]. His recent research at ITWM deals with AI for data analysis und decision support systems in the life sciences^[12][13][14]. Here, he was a member of a research group whose project in digital medicine was recognised in a national innovation competition^[15][16]. Another of his projects on AI in nursing reached the final round of an innovation competition organised by the Robert Bosch Foundation^[17][18]. At Heidelberg University, Alexander Scherrer teaches, researches and develops applied AI in radio-oncology at the Mannheim Institute for Intelligent Systems in Medicine and in the environment of the University Hospital Mannheim^[19].

• Alexander Scherrer: Adaptive approximation of nonlinear minimization problems - The adaptive clustering method in inverse radiation therapy planning. Dissertation, Dissertation, Faculty of Mathematics, Technical University of Kaiserslautern. Shaker, 2006. ISBN 978-3-8322-5610-4
• Karl-Heinz Küfer, Michael Monz, Alexander Scherrer, Philipp Süss, Fernando Alonso, Ahmad Saher Azizi Sultan, Thomas Bortfeld, Christian Thieke: Multicriteria Optimization in Intensity Modulated Rediotherapy Planning. In: H. Edwin Romeijn, Panos M. Pardalos (Ed.): Handbook of Optimization in Medicine, Ch. 5, pp. 123-167, Springer, 2009. ISBN 978-0-387-09770-1, DOI:10.1007/978-0-387-09770-1_5
• Alexander Scherrer, Ilka Schwidde, Andreas Dinges, Patrick Rüdiger, Sherko Kümmel, Karl-Heinz Küfer: Breast cancer therapy planning – a novel support concept for a sequential decision making problem. Health Care Management Science, Vol. 18, pp. 389–405. Springer, 2015. ISSN: 1386-9620, DOI:10.1007/s10729-014-9302-2
• Tobias Seidel, Anna Hoffmann, Michael Bortz, Alexander Scherrer, Jakob Burger, Norbert Asprion, Karl-Heinz Küfer, Hans Hasse: A novel approach for infeasible path optimization of distillation-based flowsheets. Chemical Engineering Science: X, Vol. 7, 100063, 2020. ISSN: 2590-1400, DOI:10.1016/j.cesx.2020.100063
• Alexander Scherrer, Tobias Zimmermann, Sinan Riedel, Stefanos Venios, Sotirios Koussouris, Maria Plakia, Sotiris Diamantopoulos, Sotiris Athanassopoulos, Paris Laras, Fihmi Mousa, Robert Zifrid, Hartmut Tillil, Isa Wasswa Musisi, Thanos Kosmidis, Joaquim C. Reis, Markus H. Moehler, Gabrielle Oestreicher, Ilias Kalamaras, Konstantina Pantelidou, Konstantinos V. Votis, Charalampos Vassiliou: A hybrid artificial intelligence solution approach to aftercare for cancer patients. Neural Computing and Applications, Vol. 35, pp. 21381–21397. Springer, 2023. ISSN: 0941-0643, DOI:10.1007/s00521-023-08765-w

• Forschung im Verbund – Wissenschaftspreis des Stifterverbands: Interaktive mehrkriterielle Strahlentherapieplanung. Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft 2016
• European Association of Research & Technology Organisations: Radiotherapy – Targeting better cancer care. Innovation Award, Category Impact delivered 2019
• Land der Ideen Management GmbH: Deutschland - Land der Ideen - DECIDE - telemedizinische Bewegungstherapie - Preisträger in der Kategorie Gesundheit 2023
• Bosch Health Campus der Robert Bosch Stiftung: Gesundheitspreis Ideas for Impact, Otto Mühlschlegel Preis - Finalist project ViKI pro 2026