Beata Mrugalska

Human perspective on sustainable logistics 4.0: trends, challenges, methods and best practices

Beata Mrugalska is an Associate Professor and head of the Division of Applied Ergonomics, Institute of Safety and Quality Engineering, Faculty of Management Engineering, Poznan University of Technology in Poland. She holds an M.Sc. (2001) in Management and Marketing from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Management at the Poznan University of Technology, and a PhD (2009) in Machine Construction and Operation from the Faculty of Computer Science and Management at the Poznań University of Technology. She was awarded D.Sc. (dr habil.) degree in Mechanical Engineering by the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Poznan University of Technology, Poland (2019). 

Since 2018, he has been a board member of the Center for Registration of European Ergonomists (CREE). She is responsible for promoting the professional title of EuroErgonomist in the international scientific and industrial environment. She is also a board member of the Polish Ergonomics Society, a member of the commission of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Ergonomics Committee at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Branch Poznan.  She has over 120 publications focused on human factor in modern organizational management concepts. She is an editor or co-editor of 15 books. She serves as a member of 8 editorial boards of international journals, a Guest Editor of 3 special issues of journals. 

Beata Mrugalska was honored with the Top Peer Reviewer by Publons for her contribution to the preparation of reviews of papers. 

Tuğrul Daim

Policies for Emerging Technologies

Prof. Tuğrul Daim is a Professor of Engineering and Technology Management and the Associate Director of Research National Academic Center of Excellence for Cybersecurity at Portland State University. He leads a research group on Technology Evaluations and Research Applications. His group has had more than 35 PhD graduates. A bibliometric review of 50 years of research published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change listed one of his papers as the fifth most influential paper and him as the third most influential author . A second paper identified his work at PSU as one of the roadmapping schools of thought next to Cambridge and others. His research group has been supported by National Science Foundation, National Cooperative Highway Research Program, Energy Trust of Oregon, US Dept of Energy, Bonneville Power Administration, Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance, EPRI, Biotronik, Ford Motor Corporation, Intel Corporation, US Aid, Fullbright, Saudi Arabia Cultural Mission, Libyan Ministry of Education, CAPES Brazil, Maseeh Foundation, Oregon BEST, TUBITAK Turkey, Chinese Scholarship Council, FAPESP Brazil, Oregon Health and Science University, and University of Bremen. Professor Daim has published over 200 refereed journal papers, more than 20 special issues and more than 20 books. He made more than 200 conference presentations. Professor Daim gave several keynote lectures at conferences, companies, universities and research centers around the world including Iamot, Euromot, Samsung, Helmut Schmidt University, Kuhne Logistics University, Seoul National University, Bogazici University, Koc University, University of Gaziantep, Izmir Institute of Technology, University of Pretoria, Tampere University of Technology, STEPI, EPIC at UNCC, Cambridge University, National Taiwan University, Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Friedrich Alexander University, Chinese Academy of Engineering and Office of Naval Research. He has been frequently invited to be an external examiner for promotions of many colleagues and for dissertations of doctoral students in universities around the world. Professor Daim is the fifth Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. Under his leadership, submissions to the journal more than doubled, the impact factor improved more than 50% and the journal was ranked among the top journals in leading citation indices. Prior to that Professor Daim had led the International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management for a decade and made it a well known journal in the field. In addition he had served as an Associate Editor for other journals including Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Technology in Society, Engineering Management Journal and Foresight. He has been on the editorial boards of many leading journals in our field. He also has been a part of the leadership team for conferences including PICMET and IEEE TEMSCON. 

Prior to joining PSU, Professor Daim worked at Intel Corporation for over a decade in varying management roles including the management of product and technology development. During his tenure at PSU, he had worked very closely with Bonneville Power Administration to develop a research and technology management framework run by technology roadmaps. He is a member of the R&D Advisory Board for TUPRAS, the largest industrial firm in Turkey. He also consulted to many other international, national and regional organizations including Elsevier, ETRI, Koc Holding, Arcelik, Tofas, Kirlangic, Siemens, Mark and Spencer, and Castrol. Professor Daim has been teaching in summers at the Northern Institute of Technology at Technical University of Hamburg, Harburg for over a decade. He was given the Research Publication Award by the International Association of Management of Technology (IAMOT) and Fellow Award by the Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET) both in 2014. He was awarded Leading Research Fellowship at National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow in 2018 and Honorary Chair Professor title by Chao Yang University of Technology in 2019. At PSU he was given David E Wedge Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2017, Outstanding Engineering Researcher Award given by the Columbia-Willamette Chapter of Sigma Xi Research Honorary in 2011 and Distinguished Alumni Award by PSU College of Eng’g and Comp Sci in 2003. Dr. Daim was the President of Omega Rho, International Honor Society in Operations Research and Management Science (of INFORMS) between the years of 2014 and 2016. He founded the PSU Chapter of Omega Rho as the founding President and has been the Faculty Adviser for 20 years. 

Markus A. Launer

International Technology Management

Prof. Dr. Markus A. Launer is a full professor for business administration and service management at the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences at the Campus Suderburg. He also teaches master students in the ZWIRN Center in Sustainability and Risk Management. His areas of expertise are International Management, eBusiness, Controlling, Finance, Corporate Communication and Investor Relations as well as Scientific Methods. Before, he was visiting lecturer at the Wolfenbüttel University of Applied Sciences, Fresenius University, Hamburg School of Management (HSBA), and International School of Management (ISM).

He researches in the area of digitalization, e-learning, compliance management, and intuition. His EU-funded EFRE research projects were “Digital Trust and Teamwork (DigVert)” and Intuition (RHIA)”. He also managed the global follow-up project “Digital Trust @ the Workplace” with 30 co-researchers in 13 languages in 30 countries (n=5570). In cooperation with 14 ministries of education in Germany, he researched e-learning at vocational schools. Together with Intersoft Consulting Services AG, he researched "Compliance Management". He publishes academic articles in journals and runs a lab for IT- and Media Technology. Markus organizes a yearly, academic International Service Management Congress with over 50 speakers bringing global experts in digitalization together. The results are published as conference proceedings and in journal articles.

He has over 20 years of experience in financial and corporate communications in various capital market measures as well as marketing and corporate controlling, nine of which are in the USA.