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Humanitarian Research Group

Team - Humanitarian Research Group

Core team

Visiting scholars

Thomas Breugem 
Assistant Professor, Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

Harwin De Vries 
Associate Professor at Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Nathan Kunz 
Professor of Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainability, Berne University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

Iman Parsa 
Assistant Professor at Stockholm School of Economics, House of Innovation, Sweden

Alfonso Pedraza-Martinez 
Greg and Patty Fox Collegiate Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations, University of Notre Dam, USA

Xihui Wang
Professor, School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, China

External scholars

Jason Acimovic 
Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Karca Aral 
Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management, Syracuse University, USA 

Maria Besiou 
Professor of Logistics, Kühne Logistics University, Germany

Tina Comes 
Professor of Decision Theory and ICT, TU Delft, The Netherlands

Charles Corbett 
Professor of Operations Management and Sustainability; IBM Chair in Management, University of California, USA

Karen Donohue 
Professor and Curtis L. Carlson Endowed Chair in Supply Chain Operations, University of Minnesota , USA

Andre du Pin Calmon 
Associate Professor of Operations Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA 

Mahyar Eftekhar 
Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management, Arizona State University, USA

Aline Gatignon 
Assistant Professor of Management, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Andreas K. Gernert 
Assistant Professor for Sustainable Operations, Kühne Logistics University, Germany

Dan A. Iancu 
Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Technology, Stanford University, USA

Marianne Jahre 
Professor of Accounting, Auditing and Business Analytics, BI Norwegian Business School, Norway

Joakim Kembro 
Associate Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Lund University, Sweden  

Gonzalo Romero 
Associate Professor of Operations Management and Statistics, University of Toronto, Canada 

Stefan Spinler 
Kühne Foundation Endowed Chair for Logistics Management, WHU–Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany 

Lea Stadler 
Associate Professor of Strategic Management, Grenoble Ecole de Management, France

Kim van Oorschot  
Professor of Project Management & System Dynamics, BI Norwegian Business School, Norway

Scott Webster 
Professor & Bob Herberger Arizona Heritage Chair, Department of Supply Chain Management, Arizona State University, USA

Executives in residence

Maximilian Burkhardt 
Director of Supply Chain, Lekkerland, Germany

Sarah Dewilde 
Associate, McKinsey & Company, Belgium

Sean Rafter 
Managing Director, HELP Logistics, Kuehne Foundation, Switzerland

Carsten Voelz 
CEO  Zentrum/Center ÜBERLEBEN gGmbH, Germany

Sean Rafter 
Managing Director, HELP Logistics, Kuehne Foundation, Switzerland

Visiting researchers

Louzanne Bam 
Senior Lecturer, Industrial Engineering Department, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Kim De Boeck 
Researcher, Access-To-Medicines Research Centre, KU Lueven, Belgium

Catherine Decouttere 
Senior Researcher, Access-To-Medicines Research Center, KU Leuven, Belgium

Yu Fan 
Researcher, Department of Management Science, University of Science and Technology of China, China

Lina Frennesson 
PhD Student in Engineering Logistics, Lund University, Sweden

Sarah Schaumann 
PhD Student, Chair of Logistics Management, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Lisanne van Rijn 
PhD Student in Logistics and Information Systems, Erasmus School of Economics, The Netherlands  

Mette Wagenvoort  
PhD Student in Logistics and Information Systems, Erasmus School of Economics, The Netherlands