Research Interests

Anna-Lena’s research interests are in the areas of inventory management, behavioural operations management and the intersection to forecasting. She has developed new methods to solve inventory problems.

She has led and supervised many supply chain-related projects with industrial partners from retailing, automotive, manufacturing, mail services, pharma, FMCG, healthcare, transportation, travel and many more.

Her research is driven by the motivation to solve problems of high practical relevance that have not been solved before. She analyses large datasets from industry and develops novel, quantitative approaches to solve these problems.

Her current research focuses on:

• Multi-echelon inventory problems
• Data-driven inventory management
• Providing decision-support for managers
• Assigning workers to workstations
• Markdown pricing
• Inventory management for spare parts

PhD Supervision Interests

I’m always looking for motivated students who are interested in pursuing a PhD. Candidates should have a strong quantitative background (mathematics, Operations Research, Management Science, statistics, computing) and be interested in solving problems of high practical and academic relevance.