Academic Degrees and Career Summary

• 1988 - 1992 studies in Business Administration at the University of Duisburg, Germany (diploma with honors)

• Scholarship for the dissertation thesis of the country North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

• Industry assignment in satellite communications

• 1994 – 1996 lecturer of the Europaeische Verkehrs-Akademie, Duisburg, Germany

• 1995 - 1996 research assistant at the University of Duisburg, Germany

• 1996 - 2004 research assistant and assistant professor at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria

• 1998 Dr. rer. oec. at the University of Duisburg, Germany (summa cum laude)

• 1999 awarded the Schmalenbach-Preis for the book "Unternehmung ohne Grenzen"

• 2004 habilitation at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria, and granting of the venia docendi for Business Administration

• 2004 appointment to associate professor for Production/Operations Management, Business Logistics and Environmental Management at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria

• 2005 visiting professor for Production/Operations Management and Business Logistics at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria

• Partner & Consultant Hamburger Logistik Institut GmbH

• since November 2004 full professor for Business Administration, especially Information Management in Business Logistics, at the Department of Business Logistics and General Management at the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany, and the Kühne School of Logistics and Management, Germany
   

Main Research Interests

• Business Logistics / Supply Chain Management

• Production/Operations Management

• Manufacturing Strategies and Production Concepts

• Mass Customization

• Information Management / Industrial Information Systems

• Strategic Management / Business Strategies

• Complexity Science and Variety Management

• Virtual Organizations and Networks

• Green Manufacturing

Publications
 

Presentations
 

Scientific and Professional Services

• Editor-in-Chief of the book series "Operations and Technology Management"
  (Co-Editors: George Q. Huang, The University of Hong Kong, and Fabrizio Salvador, Instituto de Empresa) and "Business Informatics and Application Systems" (together with Gerhard Friedrich, University Klagenfurt)

• Member of the editorial board of international scientific journals, e.g. International Journal of Mass Customisation (IJMassC)

• Guest-editor for special issues of international scientific journals, e.g. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (IEEE-TEM)

• Founding member of the international conference series "International Mass Customization Meeting (IMCM)" and "Hamburg International Conference of Logistics" (HICL)

• Chair of several international conferences, e.g. International Mass Customization Meeting 2005 (IMCM'05), International Mass Customization Meeting 2006 (IMCM'06), International Conference on Economic, Technical and Organisational Aspects of Product Configuration Systems 2006 (PETO'06), Hamburg International Conference of Logistics (HICL'06), Hamburg International Conference of Logistics (HICL'07)

• Reviewer, member of the program committee and/or track chair for several international conferences, e.g. 2^nd Interdisciplinary World Congress on Mass Customization and Personalization (MCPC’03), 2^nd International Conference “An Enterprise Odyssey: Building Competitive Advantage", 14^th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2006), 2^nd International Conference on Mass Customization 2006 (ICMC-02), 12^th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2006), 12^th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems In Manufacturing (INCOM'2006), 15^th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2007), World Conference on Mass Customization & Personalization (MCPC 2007), Logistik-Management 2007 (LoMa 2007)

• Reviewer for international scientific journals, e.g. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (IEEE-TEM), International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems (IJFMS), International Journal of Operations and Production Management (IJOPM), Journal of Information Science and Technology (JIST), International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management (IJITM), Electronic Markets (EM), Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications (CERA), Production and Operations Management (POMS), Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing (JIM), International Journal of Electronic Business (IJEB), Management Decision (MD)

• Ad-hoc reviewer for several scientific publishers, e.g. Thompson Learning Ltd., Idea Group Publishing Hershey - London

• Reviewer and Evaluator for the Austrian Ministry of Transportation, Innovation and Technology

• Reviewer of Piedmont Region of Italy for Industrial Research Evaluation Process – Logistics

• Reviewer for Dutch Technology Foundation STW

• Reviewer and Evaluator for the EU 6^th and 7^th Framework Programme, e.g. in the context of Information Technologies (IST), Production/Operations Management, Transportation and Logistics

• 2005-2008 Representative for young scientists of the Production/Operations Management Division of the German Association of University Professors of Management

• Chair of the special interests group "Future Logistics", Hamburg Logistics Initiative
  (leaflet - German)