Prof. Dr. Jutta Geldermann was appointed to be professor for Business Administration and Production Management at the University of Duisburg-Essen in 2018. After her diploma degree in industrial engineering, obtaining her doctorate and postdoctoral lecturing qualification at the University of Karlsruhe (now KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), she was Chair Holder and Professor of Production and Logistics at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen from 2007 to 2018. Her research focuses on the modelling and optimisation of production and logistics systems, including the use of methods for multi-criteria decision support and life-cycle assessment (LCA). She has successfully conducted more than 40 research projects funded by industry, DFG, Volkswagen Foundation, the European Union (EU) and various ministries. She is editor of the EURO Journal on Decision Processes and EURO representative of the German Society of Operations Research (GOR). She was also Visiting Researcher/Professor at the following institutions: Manchester Business School, University of Perugia, University of Auckland, Universidad de Concepción, Tongji University (Shanghai), City University of Hongkong, etc.