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René de Koster
Professor of Logistics and Operations Management |
Title of presentation as a keynote speaker
Warehouse robotization, state of the art and research opportunities
Short CV
René de Koster is professor of Logistics and Operations Management at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. His research interests are warehousing, terminal, and behavioural operations. He is author/editor of 8 books and 160 papers in journals, including TS, JOM, POM, IISE Transactions, IEEE TEM, IJOPM, IJPR, EJOR etc. He is associate editor or member of the editorial boards of 11 academic journals, including Transportation Science (AE), Operations Research (AE), and Journal of Operations Management (until 2015). He is member of several international research advisory boards (ELA: European Logistics Association, BVL: Germany (www.bvl.de), AIRL: France, University of Pisa, Aalto University), chairman of Stichting Logistica (www.logistica.nl, and founder of the Material Handling Forum (www.rsm.nl/mhf). He holds the Francqui chair for Hasselt University in 2018.
His research has received several awards (IIE Transactions 2009, 2016; Journal of Operations Management finalist 2007), Academy of Management best paper finalist 2013).
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Dr. Leonidas Ntziachristos
Associate Professor, |
Title of presentation as a keynote speaker
Trends in Transportation – Environmental Impacts on Supply Chain Management
Short CV
Leonidas Ntziachristos is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the Aristotle University Thessaloniki and Adjunct Professor at the Physics Department of the Tampere University of Technology. He is also one of the founding members of EMISIA SA, a spin-off company of Aristotle University. His research interests include pollutants formation and control, exhaust aerosol sampling and characterization, and emission models and projections development. Currently, he works on the development of aerosol instrumentation and sensors for diesel exhaust aerosol as well as models for the calculation of air pollutants and greenhouse gases from road transport. He obtained his PhD in Aristotle University and conducted post-doctoral research at the University of Southern California. He is responsible for the development of COPERT software, on behalf of the European Environment Agency and the EU Joint Research Centre. He co-chairs the transport expert panel of the UNECE Task Force on Emission Inventories and Projections and he is member of the steering committee of the European Research Group on Mobile Emission Sources. He has more than 110 international peer review journal publications (h-index: 35, >3200 citations) and a large number of contributions in conference proceedings and book chapters.
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Pietro Evangelista – PhD
Senior Researcher in Logistics and SCM |
Title of presentation as a keynote speaker
Environmental management in logistics service providers: current practices and future developments
Short CV
Pietro Evangelista is Senior Researcher at the Research Institute on Innovation and Services for Development (IRISS) of the Italian National Research Council,Naples (Italy).He was awarded a Ph.D. in logistics and supply chain management by Heriot-Watt University (UK) in 2009. He won the James Cooper Memorial Cup 2010 from the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (UK) for the best Ph.D. Logistics Dissertation successfully completed in the UK and Republic of Ireland universities in 2010. His current scientific interest is focused on the impact of environmental sustainability in the logistics service industry. Pietro was contract professor in Business Economics and Management at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Naples Federico II. He is now Adjunct Professor in logistics at the Department of Management and International Business of the Lappeenranta University of Technology (Finland). He is a member of the Research & Developing committee of the European Logistics Association (ELA). Pietro assists the EU Commission as an independent expert in the evaluation of project proposals in the field of transport and logistics.
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TILL RIEDEL
Lab leader of TECO research group at the University of Karlsruhe |
Title of presentation as a keynote speaker
Why Industrie 4.0 needs more data driven innovation
Short CV
Till Riedel is lab leader at TECO at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Smart Data Innovation Lab, one of Germany’s Big Data competence centers. After studying Computer Science at the University of Karlsruhe, he pursued his PhD at KIT. He co-authored more than 100 publications mostly in the area of the Internet of Things and a book on “Smart Data Analytics”. Currently his diverse research interest focus on creating innovation from real world data through analytics. He is coordinating the interdisciplinary “SmartAQnet” project looking into novel sensing infrastructures following a data driven research approach to improve air quality in the urban environment.