Chairholder
Prof. Dr. Alena Otto
(HK 12) Room 118
Dr.-Hans-Kapfinger-Straße 12
94032 Passau
Tel.: +49 851 509-2520
Email: Prof. Dr. Alena Otto
Office hours: by appointment
Alena Otto holds the Chair of Management Science/Operations and Supply Chain Management at the University of Passau.
Alena Otto’s research interests focus on operations management in companies that are undergoing digital transformation. The advent of new technologies and a growing sophistication in customer demands have significantly increased the complexity of production and logistical processes. This may, for instance, involve connecting robots, machines and humans in a network, to allow them to closely interact with each other and at least partially adjust their actions in real time. Alena Otto elaborates suitable data-driven operations-planning and optimisation approaches. Her research is interdisciplinary, carried out in cooperation with experts in engineering and data analytics.
Alena Otto has authored numerous publications, which have been published in renowned, highly-ranked academic journals. She is an associate editor for OMEGA – The International Journal of Management Science and regularly organises streams and sessions at prominent international conferences in operations research. For her research, she has received a number of prestigious academic and business awards.
Professor Otto gained her postdoctoral Habilitation qualification at the University of Siegen, where she previously worked as a postdoctoral fellow and managed the Chair of Business Administration/Quantitative Planning in an interim professor capacity. Alena Otto obtained her doctorate in Management Science with highest honours at the University of Jena. Before starting her doctoral studies, she spent several years in strategic consultancy working on different projects in the Ukraine, Germany and Russia. She received her master’s degree in economics at the EERC in Kyiv (Ukraine) and her bachelor’s degree in economics at the Belarusian State University in Minsk (Belarus), focusing on quantitative methods during her studies.
Alena Otto comes from Belarus, and is married with two children.
| Date | Milestones |
|---|---|
| From Oct. 2019 | Professor of the Chair of Management Science/Operations and Supply Chain Management at the University of Passau |
| Jan. 2019 | Postdoctoral Habilitation qualification at the University of Siegen |
| Jul. 2019 - Aug. 2019 | Visiting scholar at the France-Merrick Chair in Management, University of Maryland, USA |
| May 2019 - Jun. 2019 | Visiting scholar at the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Data Science for Real-Time Decision-Making, University of Montréal, Canada |
| Oct. 2016 | Visiting scholar at the ISAE-SUPAERO, University of Toulouse, France |
| Oct. 2014 - Mar. 2015 | Interim Full Professor (W3) of the Chair of Business Administration / Quantitative Planning at the University of Siegen |
| May 2014 | Visiting scholar at the Chair of Industrial Optimization, University of Jyväskylä, Finland |
| Oct. 2012 - Sep. 2019 | Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Chair of Management Information Science at the University of Siegen |
| Jun. 2012 | Doctorate (Dr. rer. pol., summa cum laude) awarded at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena |
| Apr. 2009 - Mar. 2012 | Graduate student at the Graduate School "Human Behavior in Social and Economic Change", Friedrich Schiller University of Jena |
| Scholarships and Awards |
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Open access for |
One-month open access as "The Article of the Month" for |
Nomination for the VHB Best Paper Award by the Scientific Committee for Operations Research of the VHB e.V. of |
| “Best Reviewer for 2017” of OMEGA – The International Journal of Management Science |
| Research travel scholarship of the Economics Department (Fakultät III) of the University of Siegen |
| Dissertation award of the Operations Research Society (GOR e.V.) |
| Optware Research Award of the „Initiative Wissenschaft und Automobilindustrie“ (IWA e.V.) |
| Dissertation award of the Economics Department, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena |
| Scholarship of the Graduate Academy of the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena |
| ProChance scholarship of the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena |
| Scholarship from the Federal Programme "ProExzellenz" of the Free State of Thuringia |
| Scholarship of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency und the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
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