Prof. Dr. Kurt Marti is a Professor Emeritus of Engineering Mathematics at the Federal Armed Forces University in Munich, Germany. He is a former Chairman of IFIP Working Group 7.7 “Stochastic Optimization” and a former Chairman of the GAMM Special Interest Group “Applied Stochastics and Optimization”. Professor Marti has published several books, both in German and in English, and more than 160 papers in refereed journals.