Kunskapsförmedlingen LOVIS4C – Logistic Visibility for Circularity
LOVIS4C – explore supply chain visibility as enabler of circularity
2022 – 2023
Professor in Production logistics
E-mail: magwik@kth.se
Affiliation: Royal Institute of Technology
Academy: Production Academy
Design, modelling and performance prediction of production logistics.
Magnus Wiktorsson is a Professor within Production logistics at KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, in Södertälje, Sweden. He is also head of department for the department of Production Engineering (IPU) at KTH in Stockholm and Södertälje. His research interest concerns operations management and production logistics. Connected technologies and digital tools as enablers for analysis and development of sustainable production, are common themes in his research.
He has a background as senior lecturer, associate professor and professor at Mälardalen university during 2008 – 2017. After his PhD in 2000 he worked as a management consultant at IBM and smaller partner-based consulting companies, focusing on operations management. He also worked as a Program Manager at VINNOVA, the Swedish governmental agency for innovation systems, funding research projects within product realisation. He graduated from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm with an MSc in Systems Engineering (1995) and a PhD in Manufacturing Engineering (2000).
With an academic background in applied mathematics and systems engineering, and an industrial background in operations management, Magnus analyse production logistic systems with respect to efficiency, sustainability and performance.
LOVIS4C – explore supply chain visibility as enabler of circularity
2022 – 2023
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