Prof. Dr. Simon Emde

Chairholder

Simon Emde

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Office: Raum 4.83, 4. OG

Phone: +49 (0 )3641/9-43310 

simon.emde@uni-jena.de

Office hours: by appointment

  • Career
    • 10/2022 - today: Professor - Chair of Information Systems, esp. Business Intelligence, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

    • 06/2021 - 09/2022: Professor - Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University, Denmark

    • 10/2019 - 05/2021: Associate Professor - Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University, Denmark

    • 02/2017: Habilitation at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena

      Thesis: Modern Optimization Techniques for Problems in Facility and Container Logistics

    • 03/2016 - 09/2019: Junior Professor and Head of the Department of Management Science / Operations Research, Faculty of Law and Economics, Technical University of Darmstadt

    • 04/2014 - 06/2014: Visiting researcher, Université de Montréal, Canada

    • 10/2011 - 02/2016: Postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of ABWL / Operations Management, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

    • 10/2011: Doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.) at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena

      Thesis: Feeding Parts to Mixed-Model Assembly Lines in the Automotive Industry with Tow Trains

    • 06/2008 - 10/2011: PhD student and research assistant at the Chair of Operations Management, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

    • 03/2008: Diploma in Business Informatics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  • Prizes and honors
    • 2025: Springer Nature Editor of Distinction Award 2025 - Author Service Award for contributions to OR Spectrum
    • 2024: Betriebswirte-Ranking of Wirtschaftswoche: current research performance: 72nd place; lifetime achievement: among the 100 top researchers

    • 2024: European Journal of Operational Research Editors' Award for Excellence in Reviewing

    • 2022: Betriebswirte-Ranking der Wirtschaftswoche: current research performance: 25. Place; lifetime achievement: Among the top 100 researchers                         

    • 2021: Hedorf Prize in Transport Research

    • 2020: Wirtschaftswoche business economist ranking: current research performance: 14th place; researcher under 40: 2nd place

    • 2020: European Journal of Operational Research Editors' Award for Excellence in Reviewing

    • 2019: Wirtschaftswoche business economist ranking: current research performance: 26th place; researchers under 40: 11th place

    • 2018: Harold W. Kuhn Award for the paper: “Synchronization in Hub Terminals with the Circular Arrangement Problem” together with Nils Boysen, Konrad Stephan and Markus Weiß

    • 2017: IISE Transactions Scheduling & Logistics Best Application Paper Award for: “Just-in-Time Vehicle Scheduling with Capacity Constraints”, together with Nils Boysen and Dirk Briskorn

    • 2014: Business Economist Ranking of the Handelsblatt: Researcher under 40, among the best 100

    • 2014: OptWare Award for research in the field of “Theory meets Practice” on production and logistics in the automotive industry

    • 2013: IIE Transaction Best Paper Award for “Optimally loading tow trains for JIT-supply of mixed-model assembly lines”, together with Malte Fliedner and Nils Boysen

    • 2012: Doctoral prize of the Alumni Jenensis
  • Editorships