13th PhD Candidates Workshop

Bundesvereinigung Logistik (BVL) will soon be staging its PhD Candidates Workshop for up-and-coming researchers and scientists for the thirteenth time. The interdisciplinary doctoral candidates' workshop on the firt day of the Logistics Forum Duisburg offers participants the opportunity to talk about the business management and engineering aspects of supply chain management, to establish contacts with international scientists from various specialist fields and to further their own research from both a content-based and methodological point of view.

The workshop will take place on Wednesday, March 16, 2011 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.. The event will be held in German. Professor Dr. ir. René de Koster, Professor, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands and Univ.-Professor Dr. Stefan Spinler, Head, Chair of Logistics Management, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar will be the joint moderators for the workshop. For PhD candidates, attendance at the workshop also includes free participation in the 13th Logistics Forum Duisburg.

Now is the time to enter your doctoral thesis project for the PhD Candidates Workshop; send your application documents to us by e-mail by Januar 9, 2011 at the latest. The submitted documentation (max. three pages) in German or English should contain the following information:

• Topic of dissertation
• Start and scheduled completion of doctoral project
• Supervising professor
• Brief description of project (theoretical backround, methodology, actual insights, initial outlook)
• Short vita with full contact details