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About me
Academic researcher, developing and evaluating sustainable solutions in logistics.
Since April 2022, my current position is Professor of Sustainable Logistics.
My previous position was Senior Research Fellow in Freight, Logistics and Sustainable Distribution at the University of Westminster, from May 2007 to March 2022. My research areas included freight transport, logistics, and supply chain.
From 2006 to 2007, my position was Researcher at The French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research (now University Gustav Eiffel) in Paris, France, working on freight transport policies and supply chain surveys.
From 1998 to 2005, I was advisor to the Federal Government as Referent of Prof Dr Hartmut Graßl at the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology and German Advisory Council on Global Change in Hamburg, Germany. Main research area was environmental policies.
Teaching
Professor for the MSc in Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
Module leader of 7TRAN010w "Freight Transport and Logistics Services", 7TRAN014w "Logistics and External Environment" and 7TRAN026w "Sustainable Supply Chains With Focus on Freight Transport".
MSc dissertation supervisor for 7TRAN020w: between 2 and 21 dissertations per year since 2019.
Main topics of my lectures are logistics, freight transport, supply chains, surveying transport operations, energy use and sustainability aspects, survey methods, data and reporting, GHG emissions calculation methods.
In 2024, guest Professor at Mines Paris – PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris).
Since 2021, external Professor at the engineering school HEIG-VD in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland.
It was a very rewarding experience to be a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Kyoto, Dept of Transport Systems, in 2008 in Japan.
Since 2008, an additional position is external Lecturer at EIGSI, a French engineering school based in La Rochelle, for a Course on sustainable logistics. This takes place within the general engineering degree curriculum, called "Dominante Energie and Environnement".
From 1996 to 2005, I was Lecturer in the Seminar "Global Environmental Change' with Prof Dr Gerhard Lammel at the Institute for Geography and the Institute for Meteorology of the University of Hamburg, Germany.
Research
GeoSence was completed in August 2024. Recently, projects included CIVITAS DESTINATIONS, CITYLAB (EU H2020), Agile Logistics (Greater London Authority), SMARTFUSION, BESTFACT, SUGAR, Green Logistics, Supply Chain Energy, Fideus and Transforum. Publications can be downloaded for free on my ResearchGate profile.
External Activities and Consultancies
International Advisory Board member for the SENATOR research project 2020-2025.
2019-2022, I was supporting the German GIZ and the Ministry of Transport of China on the National Programme on Green Urban Logistics.
In 2018, I was supporting the German GIZ activities in the Greater Mekong Region, in Indonesia and in China.
2016-2019, I was Advisory Board member for the EC Interreg project SULPITER.
Many past consultancies, notably for OECD, TfL, GLA, EC.
Publications
For details of all my research outputs, visit my WestminsterResearch profile.