Leena Suhl (born 1953) is a retired Finnish-German

operations research Operations research () (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a branch of applied mathematics that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve management and ...

er specializing in

transport scheduling A public transport timetable (also timetable and North American English schedule) is a document setting out information on public transport service times. Both public timetables to assist passengers with planning a trip and internal timetables ...

and

logistics Logistics is the part of supply chain management that deals with the efficient forward and reverse flow of goods, services, and related information from the point of origin to the Consumption (economics), point of consumption according to the ...

. She was a professor of

business informatics Business informatics (BI) is a discipline combining economics, the economics of digitization, business administration, accounting, internal auditing, information technology (IT), and concepts of computer science. Business informatics centers arou ...

at Paderborn University and the president of the German Operations Research Society.

Early life and education

Suhl was born in 1953 in

Kuopio Kuopio ( , ) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of North Savo. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Kuopio is approximately , while the Kuopio sub-region, sub-region has a population of approximately . It is the mos ...

, Finland. After earning a diploma in industrial mathematics in 1979 from the Helsinki University of Technology and then working in industry, she returned to graduate study and completed a doctorate at the Helsinki University of Technology in 1988. Continuing as a postdoctoral researcher at the

Helsinki University of Technology Helsinki University of Technology (TKK; ; , HUT in international usage) was a technical university in Finland. It was located in Otaniemi, Espoo in the Helsinki metropolitan area, and it was one of the three universities from which the modern d ...

, she earned a

habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in Germany, France, Italy, Poland and some other European and non-English-speaking countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excelle ...

in 1993.

Career and later life

Suhl became a professor at Paderborn University in 1993, where she held the chair for business informatics and headed the Decision Support & Operations Research Lab until her retirement in 2018. Her doctoral students at Paderborn included Natalia Kliewer. She was elected president of the German Operations Research Society in 2014, serving as president for 2015 and 2016.

Recognition

In 2018, the German Operations Research Society named Suhl as an honorary member.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Suhl, Leena 1953 births Living people People from Kuopio Finnish computer scientists Finnish women computer scientists German computer scientists German women computer scientists Operations researchers Aalto University alumni Academic staff of Paderborn University