Shaping Transformation Together
Together with KLU Kühne Logistics University, the Hamburg Logistics Initiative has launched the Hamburg Logistics Professorship (HHLOP). The aim is to promote and intensify networking between academia and industry. To this end, the relevant professors from the Hamburg metropolitan region meet several times a year.
In collaboration with the KLU Kühne Logistics University, the Logistics-Initiative Hamburg has established the Hamburg Logistics Professors' Forum (HHLOP). The goal is to advance and strengthen the networking among scientists themselves and with the business community. Participating professors from the Hamburg metropolitan area meet several times a year to exchange ideas and collaborate.
Topics at the Professorium
The focus of the professorship varies from session to session and is orientated towards current developments and research questions. For example, the following topics have been covered in the past:
- Intelligent Transport Systems & Digital Administration
- Drones in Logistics
- Innovation Programme of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure
- Effects of the transition to electromobility on freight flows within Germany
- Urban Transition
- The Regional Innovation Strategy of the City of Hamburg
- "Hamburg Quantum Innovation Capital" initiative & "Rymax One" project
- Military Logistics - Selected Examples
Since 2024, meetings are no longer held according to a rigid numerical scheme. Instead, the Professorium is opening up to a new, freer format that offers space for spontaneous discussions, creative ideas and innovative approaches.
Participation in the Professors' Forum Participation in the Professors' Forum
Professors from the Hamburg metropolitan region who are involved in logistics in the broadest sense in teaching and/or research are eligible to participate. Invitations are personalised and are issued via LIHH and KLU. External guests are invited by the organisers for individual appointments.
Professors from the Hamburg metropolitan region who are involved in logistics in the broadest sense through teaching and/or research are eligible to participate. Invitations are personal and issued by the LIHH and the KLU. External guests are invited by the organisers for selected sessions.
If you have any questions about the Professors’ Forum, feel free to contact us. As well if there are any professors missing from the list.
Members of the Professorium
Here you can find an overview of all participants in the Logistics Professors’ Forum:

- Operations Research
- Optimization
- Complexity

- Sustainability
- Contract Design
- Behavioral Management

- Ocean Shipping
- Global Logistics/Freight Flow
- Multimodal Transportation


- Operations Research
- Management Science
- Algorithms


- Performance Measurement Systems
- Branding
- Cost Management

- New technologies for supply chain management
- Supply chain analytics
- Human-machine interaction

- Multimodal Transports
- Logistic Systems
- Urban and Maritime Logistics

- Ship Finance
- CSR in Shipping
- Ship Management

- Logistics and SCM
- Digital Transformation
- Artificial Intelligence

- Automation
- Process Management
- Digitalisation

- Scheduling
- Logistics
- Game Theory

- Logistics Management/SCM
- Innovationmanagement
- Changemanagement

- Maritime
- Sustainability
- Financing

- Matheuristics
- Computational Logistics
- Informations Systems

- Decarbonisation of logistics
- Sustainability
- Freight transport

- Supply chain analytics
- Cicular supply chains
- International supply chain development

- Sustainability assessment
- Supply chain network design
- Sustainable mobility