Prof. Dr. Julia Arlinghaus

Prof. Dr. Julia Arlinghaus is Chair of Logistics and Supply Chain Management and Director of the Institute of Production and Supply Chain Management at the University of St.Gallen. She is also Chair of the Scientific Commission of the German Science Council, the most important advisory body to the German Federal Government on strategic issues concerning the science and higher-education system. Previously, she served for six years as Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF and held the Chair of Production Systems and Automation at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. From 2017 to 2019, she held the Chair of Industry 4.0 Management at RWTH Aachen University – Germany’s first professorship explicitly dedicated to managing the Fourth Industrial Revolution. 
After studying industrial engineering at the University of Bremen and the University of Tokyo, she received her PhD in 2011 from the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. She subsequently worked as a consultant for operational excellence and lean management at Porsche Consulting before accepting a call in 2013 as Professor of Network Optimization in Production and Logistics at Jacobs University Bremen.
Together with her team, she researches—with and for companies—individual, sustainable, and resilient solutions for the efficient design of global value chains. Her research focuses on new technologies and business models in logistics and manufacturing, methods of artificial intelligence, and new approaches to planning and control for digital and circular value creation systems.