Matthias Bender graduated from the University of Karlsruhe in 2008 with a diploma degree in Industrial Engineering. The main focus of his studies was Logistics. In his diploma thesis he dealt with robust vehicle routing via evolutionary algorithms.

After his studies he gained over two years of practical experience in Supply Chain Management in the retail sector.

Since July 2011 he has been working at FZI in the department Logistics Systems Engineering within the research division IPE. He mainly works on the research project RAN.