Alexandre Dolgui

Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Fellow of IISE, IMT Atlantique, France

Dr. Alexandre Dolgui is an IISE Fellow, Distinguished Professor and the Head of Automation, Production and Computer Sciences Department at the IMT Atlantique, campus in Nantes, France. His research and teaching activities focus on decision aid in manufacturing line design, production planning, scheduling and supply chain optimisation, especially his recent work is dedicated to resilience issues in supply chains. He is the co-author of 5 books, the co-editor of 32 books or conference proceedings, the author of over 320 refereed papers in international journals. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Production Research, an Area Editor of Computers & Industrial Engineering. He is an Active Fellow of the European Academy for Industrial Management, Member of the Board of the International Foundation for Production Research, former Chair (Vice-Chair now) of IFAC TC 5.2 Manufacturing Modelling for Management and Control, Member of IFIP WG 5.7 Advances in Production Management Systems, IEEE System Council Analytics and Risk Technical Committee, he has been Scientific Chair of many leading scientific conferences and received several international distinctions. He is one of Highly Cited Researchers in the field of Engineering awarded by Clarivate in 2021, 2022, 2023.

Research interests: manufacturing line design, production planning and supply chain optimization; 5 authored books, 25 edited books or conference proceedings, over 300 refereed journal papers, 32 editorials and 34 book chapters as well as over 400 papers in conference proceedings.

Stefan Minner

Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management, TUM School of Management, Germany

Stefan Minner is a Full Professor for Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the School of Management, Technical University of Munich (TUM) and a core-member of the Munich Data Science Institute (MDSI). His research interests using methods of operations research, artificial intelligence and machine learning are in global supply chain design, transportation optimization and inventory management. His work was published in many peer reviewed journals, including Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, Transportation Science, Transportation Research Part B, and European Journal of Operational Research. He serves on several editorial boards of logistics and operations research journals. Currently, Stefan Minner is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Production Economics. Stefan Minner is a fellow of the International Society for Inventory Research (ISIR) and is currently vice-chairman of the scientific advisory board of the German Logistics Association (BVL), and a member of the Research Committee of the European Logistics Association (ELA).

Pascal Zammit

Associate Professor in Supply Chain & Logistics at Paris Panthéon-Assas University, France

Associate Professor in Supply Chain & Logistics at Paris Panthéon-Assas University, France

He has more than 20 years of experience in the supply chain, logistics and business management domains. He has extensive know-how in growing new businesses, particularly digital businesses, supporting the management of rigorous decision-making methods, improving the operational efficiency of teams and value creation.