The Section Modeling, Simulation and Optimization (Applied Mathematics) is part of the Department of Mathematics, which belongs to the Faculty of Science of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.

• Chair of Applied Mathematics Prof. Dr. Peter Knabner (AM 1)
  (Prof. Dr. P. Knabner, Prof. Dr. W. Borchers, Prof. Dr. G. Grün, Prof. Dr. N. Marheineke, Prof. Dr. W. Merz)
• Chair of Applied Mathematics Prof. Dr. Günter Leugering (AM 2)
  (Prof. Dr. G. Leugering, Prof. Dr. W. Achtziger, Prof. Dr. J. Jahn, Prof. Dr. M. Stingl, Prof. Dr. M. Gugat)
• Chair of Applied Mathematics Prof. Dr. Eberhard Bänsch (AM 3)
  (Prof. Dr. E. Bänsch, Prof. Dr. D. Kuzmin)
• Chair Economics, Discrete Optimization, Mathematics 
  (Prof. Dr. Alexander Martin, Prof. Dr. Frauke Liers, Prof. Dr. Sebastian Pokutta)