Scientific Advisory Board
By providing a scientific and research perspective, the Scientific Advisory Board supports BVL in the formulation and positioning of logistics issues in society, politics and industry as well as in the definition of recommendations for action. The members of this board are university lecturers, heads of institutes and experts responsible for research and development. They define relevant research fields and provide support during the initiation of research projects.
The Scientific Advisory Board comprises a network of scientists from different disciplines, universities and research institutions and creates a bridge between industry and science, thereby helping to establish logistics as an independent interdisciplinary field of knowledge. In June 2010, the Scientific Advisory Board published a position paper on logistics as a scientific discipline and in March 2017 the position paper: Logistics as a Science – Central Research Questions in the
Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Chairman
Chairman
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kai Furmans
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Institute for Material Handling and Logistics
Director of the Institute
Deputy Chairman
Prof. Dr. Stefan Minner
TUM School of Management, Technische Universität München
Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Full Professor
Deputy Chairman
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ludger Overmeyer
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Institute for Transport and Automation Technology
Head of Institute
Members
Prof. Dr. oec. Julia C. Arlinghaus
Chair for Production Systems and Automation, Institute of Ergonomics, Manufacturing Systems and Automation, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF, Magdeburg
Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Bauernhansl
Head of Institute of Industrial Manufacturing and Management IFF University of Stuttgart
Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, Stuttgart
Prof. Dr. Nils Boysen
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Chairholder, Chair of ABWL/Operations Management
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Clausen
Head of Institute of Transport Logistics, TU Dortmund University
Director, Fraunhofer-Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML, Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Ralf Elbert
TU Darmstadt
Departmental chairperson, Department of Law and Economics
Head of the Chair of Management and Logistics, Awardee Science Award for SCM 2005
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Johannes Fottner
Technical University of Munich
Institute for Materials Handling, Material Flow, Logistics
Chair of Logistics Management
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Freitag
University of Bremen
BIBA - Bremer Institut fuer Produktion und Logistik
Director
Prof. Dr. Margaretha Gansterer
University of Klagenfurt
Head of Division, Operations Management and Logistics
Head of Department, Department of Operations, Energy and Environmental Management
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Hellingrath
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Department of Information Systems
Chair for Information Systems and Supply Chain Management
Prof. Dr. Kai Hoberg
Kühne Logistics University – KLU
Associate Professor of Supply Chain and Operations Strategy
Prof. Dr. Alexander Hübner
TU München
Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability
Chair of Supply and Value Chain Management
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Kersten
Hamburg University of Technology
Institute of Business Logistics and General Management
Head of the Institute, Chairman of Jury Science Award for SCM
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alice Kirchheim
Associate Prof. Dr. Matthias Klumpp
Politecnico di Milano
School of Management
Italy
Prof. Dr. ir. René de Koster
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Rotterdam School of Management
Professor of Logistics and Operations Management
Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Anne Lange
Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
Professur für Allgemeine BWL, insbesondere Logistik mit besonderem Schwerpunkt Luftverkehr
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Thorsten Schmidt
Technische Universität Dresden
Institute of Material Handling and Industrial Engineering
Director
Prof. Dr. - Ing. Robert Schulz
University of Stuttgart
Chair of Mechanical Handling, Intralogistics and Technical Logistics and
Head of the Institute of Mechanical Handling and Logistics (IFT)
Prof. Dr. Sandra Transchel
Kühne Logistics University
Professor for Supply Chain & Operations Management
Prof. Dr. Stephan Wagner
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)
Chair of Logistics Management
Director HumOSCM Lab
Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Carl Marcus Wallenburg
WHU –Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar/Düsseldorf
Kühne Institute for Logistics Management
Director, Chair of Logistics Management, Awardee Science Award for SCM 2004
Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hartmut Zadek
University Magdeburg “Otto-von-Guericke”
Institute of Logistics and Material Handling Systems (ILM)
Department of Logistics, Faculty for Mechanical Engineering (FMB)