Prof. Dr. Frank Brand Professorship for Business

Prof. Dr. Frank Brand
Professorship for Business Mathematics and Statistics
Schöneberg Campus
Room 302
Badensche Straße 50-51
10825 Berlin
T: +49 (0)30 85789-140
E: [email protected]
Summary
University degree in physics. Ph. D. in Operations Research (Technical University
Berlin). Prior to his position as a professor at the Berlin School of Economics and
Law, he had professional experience as a research fellow in a company founded by
Nobel prize winner Prof. Dr. Gerd Binnig. He was subsequently head of financial engineering and optimization group at Visual Analysis, Munich. Major fields of teaching/research: economathematics, statistics, mathematical modelling, computer algebra systems (Mathematica), evolutionary algorithms, analysis and control of complex
dynamical systems. Prof. Brand also has extended experiences abroad, primarily in
Vietnam (Hanoi) and Latin American countries (Columbia)..
Academic and Professional Career
1990: Degree in Physics
1998: Obtained doctorate under Prof. Dr. I. Rechenberg / Technical University Berlin
February 1998 to April 1999: Research fellow at delphi2 Creative Technologies GmbH
in Munich; Head of Research – Prof. Dr. Gerd Binning (Nobel Prize for Physics, 1986)
May 1999 to February 2002: Head of Financial Engineering and Optimization at
Visual Analysis AG in Munich
Since March 2002: Consultant for mathematical modelling
Since October 2003: Professor of Business Mathematics and Statistics
Key Aspects of practise
Portfolio theory and optimization
Analysis, simulation and mathematical optimization of contracts (energy supply contracts)
International contacts (e. g.)
Wolfram Research Inc., Champaign, Illinois, USA
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP/United Nations), Trieste, Italy
Department of Physics, Universidad Nacional, Medellin, Columbia
University of Bielefeld, Faculty of Mathematical Physics
External relations
European Business School, Finanzakademie GmbH, in Oestrich-Winkel
DVFA e.V. (German Association for Financial Analysis and Investment Advice) in
Frankfurt / Dreieich
Scope Advisory GmbH, Berlin
Expert for
Mathematical modelling of economic and technical issues
Computer algebra systems / Mathematica
Operations Research
Evolutionary optimization procedures
Key Aspects in Teaching
Business Mathematics
Statistics
Optimization
Financial Mathematics
Research Projects and Fields
Book project: “Analysis of Complex Systems with Applications in Business and the
Economy”
Book project: “Modelling and Optimization with Evolutionary Optimization Algorithms
under Mathematica”
Planned projects
Book project: Pattern Recognition with Statistical Moments”
Selected, current Publications
Brand, F.; Schaller, F.; Völker, H. (Ed.), Transdisziplinarität, Bestandsaufnahme und
Perspektiven, Beiträge zur THESIS-Arbeitstagung im Oktober 2003 in Göttingen,
2004, 1. Auflage, 208 S., 3-030457-37-7
Brand, F., Transdisziplinarität – Voraussetzung für naturwissenschaftlichen und
mathematischen Erkenntnisgewinn? In: Brand, F.; Schaller, F.; Völker, H. (Ed.),
Transdisziplinarität, Bestandsaufnahme und Perspektiven, Beiträge zur THESIS-Arbeitstagung im Oktober 2003 in Göttingen, 2004, 1. Auflage
Castaneda, R., Garcia-Sucerquia, J., Brand, F., Quality discriptors of optical beams
based on centred reduced moments II: Retrieving of the complex degree of spatial
coherence from the spot moments, Optics Communication 238, Issues 1-3 (2004), p.
191-200
Castaneda, R., Garcia-Sucerquia, J., Brand, F., Quality discriptors of optical beams
based on centred reduced moments I: Spot analysis, Optics Communication 227, Issues 1-3 (2003), p. 37-48