14th PhD Candidates Workshop

Bundesvereinigung Logistik (BVL) will soon be staging its PhD Candidates Workshop for up-and-coming researchers and scientists for the fourteenth time. The interdisciplinary doctoral candidates' workshop on the day before the International Supply Chain Conference 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 Tuesday, October 18, 2011 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.. The event will be held in English. Prof. Dr. Robert de Souza, Executive Director, The Logistics Institute - Asia Pacific/ NUS, Singapore, and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heike Flämig, Professor of TU Hamburg-Harburg will be the joint moderator for the workshop. For PhD candidates, attendance at the workshop also includes free participation in the 28th International Supply Chain Conference.

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 August 31, 2011 at the latest. The submitted documentation (max. three pages) in English should contain the following information:

• Short vita with full contact details
• Topic of dissertation
• Supervising professor
• Start and scheduled completion of doctoral project
• Brief description of project (1. Knowledge status; 2. Innovations expected to result from the PhD thesis; 3. Methodology; 4. Initial insights)

All applicants will be notified by e-mail by October 5, 2011. For further information, please contact Tino Grosche by email grosche@bvl.de or by phone +49 (0) 421 173 84 25.