Summer School

Arne Heinold is Assistant Professor for Transportation with a focus on Maritime Logistics at Kühne Logistics University (KLU). Before joining KLU, he was a substitute professor for Operations Management at the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg. He studied Economics (in Kiel) and Global Logistics (at KLU) and received his doctorate from the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. After his Master's and before his PhD, he worked for Gebr. Heineman for three and a half years, most recently as SAP Requirements Manager.
His research focuses on green logistics and methods for the (optimal) solution of complex transportation problems. His research results have been published in several international journals, including Transportation Science, Journal of Industrial Ecology and Transportation Research Part D and E. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the prestigious Science Award Logistics 2022 and the Jacqueline Bloemhof Award on Sustainable Supply Chains 2023.

Leonard Heilig is co-founder and CTO at driveMybox, research project leader in the project TwinSim, and leads a data science team at EUROGATE. In those roles, he oversees the development and research in the areas of digitalization, application development, simulation-based optimization, machine learning and cloud computing.

He holds a B.Sc. (University of Münster, Germany) and a M.Sc. (University of Hamburg, Germany) in Information Systems and received his PhD at the University of Hamburg. He spent some time at the University of St Andrews (Scotland, UK) and at the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia. In the last years he published more than 60 scientific articles and books in the areas of maritime logistics, operations research and cloud computing, served as guest editor in several peer-reviewed journals, were involved in the acquisition of large amounts of research funding, and worked as consultant in international projects.

As entrepreneur and practitioner, he has gained a deep understanding of logistics and supply chains in recent years, especially with respect to the maritime industry.

Jingjing Yu holds a PhD from the University of Hamburg, focusing especially on shore-side electricity. Recently, she has been working as a research associate within a smart college / smart city project at the University of Hamburg. In October 2024 she starts an Assistant Professor position at the Universidad Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain.

Stefan Voß is professor and director of the Institute of Information Systems at the University of Hamburg. Moreover, he served as dean of the Hamburg Business School (School of Business Administration) in 2020-2022. Previous positions include full professor and head of the department of Business Administration, Information Systems and Information Management at the University of Technology Braunschweig (Germany) from 1995 up to 2002. He holds degrees in Mathematics (diploma) and Economics from the University of Hamburg and a Ph.D. and the habilitation from the University of Technology Darmstadt. His current research interests are in quantitative / information systems approaches to supply chain management and logistics including public mass transit and telecommunications. He is author and co-author of several books and several hundred papers in various journals. In the German Handelsblatt ranking he is continuously within the top 20 professors in business administration within the German speaking countries. The most recent Wirtschaftswoche rankings list him among the top 10. Stefan Voß serves on the editorial board of some journals including being Editor of Public Transport. He is frequently organizing workshops and conferences. Furthermore, he is consulting with several companies.