Education

• 09/2003-05/2007: University of Massachusetts Amherst
  Ph.D. in Business Administration; concentration in Management Science; minor in Environmental and Resource Economics

• 09/1998-09/2002: University of Innsbruck
  Master in International Economic and Business Studies; graduated with honors (degree Mag. rer. soc. oec.)

• Year abroad at Tulane University, New Orleans, USA

Work experience

• since May 2011: WU Vienna - Institute for Transport und Logistics Management
  Professor for Supply Chain Services and Networks

• 08/2007-05/2011: Fogelman College of Business & Economics
  University of Memphis Assistant Professor

• 09/2003-05/20007: Virtual Center for Supernetworks 
  Student research assistant

• 10/2002-08/2003: Food cluster Upper Austrian Chamber of Commerce, WK OÖ
  Project manager

Research Interests

• Supply chain management

• Humanitarian supply chains 

• Closed-loop supply chains

Methodological tools 

• Variational Inequalities

• Game-theory

• Optimization

• Agent-based simulation

Awards

• Fogelman College of Business and Economics
  2008 Best Paper Award in the conceptual/theoretical category

• Fogelman College of Business And Economics
  2008-2009 Dean´s Service Award

• 2006-2007: University of Massachusetts Amherst, Graduate School Fellowship Award for Outstanding Doctoral Students

• 2006 INFORMS Chapters/Fora Committee
  Judith Liebman Award

Publications

Fides Forschungsdatenbank der WU