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Prof. Dr. Martin Grunow
Head of Production and Supply Chain Management Group
Professor TUM School of Management, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)89 289 24870
Room: 1534 (building 0505)
Employment
| 2010 - present | Professor in Production and Supply Chain Management Department of Operations and Technology, TUM School of Management, Technical University of Munich Vice Dean TUM School of Management |
| 2006 - 2010 | Professor in Operations Management Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark Head of Operations Management Section Head of FoodDTU Research area "Catering, convenience, freshness and chain approaches" |
| 1993 - 2006 | Researcher and Assistant Professor Department of Production Management, Technical University of Berlin |
| 2000 - 2001 | Researcher Department Supply Chain Development, Process Technology & Engineering, Degussa AG (Evonik AG) in Hanau, Germany |
Education
| 2005 | Habilitation |
| 1999 | PhD, summa cum laude |
| 1993 | Master of Industrial Engineering Technical University of Berlin |
| 1987 - 1988 | Management Dublin City University, Ireland |
Publications / Services / Projects
Journals
- Papers in journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, IISE Transactions, International Journal for Production Economics, International Journal for Production Research, Production and Operations Management
- Editorial board of journals OR Spectrum (Assistant Editor 2001-2007, Editor 2008-2021), Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal (Area Editor 2010-2016, Associate Editor 2017-2023), Business Research (2008-2020)
- Editor of special issues in OR Spectrum and in Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal
- Referee for more than 20 different journals
A publication list is available at the bottom of this page.
Books
- Co-editor of textbook book on Advanced Planning in Supply Chains
Service
- Member of organization and program committees for more than 30 international conferences
- Organizer of conference streams
- Project evaluator for German Research Foundation DFG, Austrian Science Fund, Academy of Finland, Danish Agency for Science and Technology and others
- Reviewer of scientific performance at Wageningen University, The Netherlands
- External examiner of the bachelor programme Production Management at the University of Limerick, Ireland
Projects
- Projects (co-)funded by Danish Food Research Programme, German Research Foundation DFG, German Academic Exchange Service DAAD, EU, Danish Globalization Fund, China Scholarship Council CSC and others
Grants / Awards
- Finalist Best Working Paper Behavioural Operations, INFORMS 2020 (with Frank Hage and Sebastian Schiffels)
- Honourable Mention for the Best Application Paper in 2020 IISE Transactions on Design and Manufacturing (with Daniel Tonke and Renzo Akkerman)
- Two edX MOOCs (“Lean Production”, “Six Sigma: Define and Measure”) in the top 10 list of online classes in Class Central 2020, more than 350,000 MOOC participants (with Holly Ott)
- Honourable Mention for the Best Paper Award IISE Transactions 2019 (with Phillip Kriett)
- Comisión Nacional de Investigatción Científica y Tecnológica, Chile (2019)
- Innovation in Teaching Award 2015 TUM School of Management for new MOOC on Quality Engineering and Management on edX (with Holly Ott)
- Associate Member of the International Academy for Production Engineering (2009)
- Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (2007)
- Taiwanese National Science Foundation (2006)
- National Science Foundation USA (2004)
- Konrad-Mellerowicz-Award (2001)
- Hermann-Schlosser-Foundation (2000)
Scientific organizations
- Head of working group Supply Chain Management of the German Operations Research Society (since 2018)
- Member of Scientific Advisory Board Kompetenzzentrum Mittelstand, Verband der Bayerischen Metall- und Elektroindustrie
- Member of the Programme Committee Health, Food and Welfare, Strategic Research Council Denmark (Det Strategiske Forskningsråd, 2010-2014)
- Membership in INFORMS, MSOM, Production and Operations Management Society, European Operations Management Association, German Operations Research Society