Prof. Dr. Gudrun P. Kiesmüller

Academic Career and Research Areas

Prof. Kiesmüller's primary research interests are supply chain management, inventory management, and in particular the management of spare parts inventories. Recent projects also included the planning of maintenance processes and the design of manufacturing systems. In her work also optimization approaches are developed for decision support. Together with different co-authors she has published in leading international journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, IISE Transactions, Production and Operations Management among others.

Prof. Kiesmüller has studied Mathematics at the Julius Maximilians University Würzburg where she also obtained her doctoral degree. Afterwards she joined the Technical University Eindhoven in the Netherlands as a PostDoc and later as an Assistent Professor.  At the Christian Albrechts Universität zu Kiel she was appointed as a full professor for Supply Chain Management, and at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg for Operations Management. Since 2019 she is a Full Professor for Operations Management at the TUM Campus Heilbronn.

Awards

• Honorary doctorate from the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg (2023)
• Service Award of the International Society of Inventory Research ISIR (2022)
• Teaching Award (third prize) for teaching in the Master's program of the Faculty of Economics at the OvGU Magdeburg (2017)
• Reviewer award of the journal OR Spectrum (2017)
• Prize for the best review paper, Association of European Operational Research Societies, (2014)
• Teaching award (first prize, together with Prof. AG de Kok and Prof JC Fransoo) for the lecture “Supply Chain Operations Planning” (Masterprogram, TU Eindhoven) (2008)