Dr. KATHARINA BERENDES






Short CV






  • 2025

    Industrial Engineer, Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg



  • 2025

    Doctorate in Economics (Dr. rer. pol.), Georg-August-University Göttingen



  • 2022-2025

    Research Associate, Chair of Marketing and Innovation Management, in particular within the Retail Logistics and Innovation Lab, Georg-August-University Göttingen



  • 2021

    M.Sc. in Technology-oriented Management, Technical University of Braunschweig



  • 2019-2020

    Study abroad, Universitat Politècnica de València, València, Spain



  • 2017

    B.Eng. in Industrial Engineering, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfsburg















PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE




  • Project staff member in various industry projects within the Retail Logistics and Innovation Lab

  • Freelance Lecturer in the Industrial Engineering Programme (Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences Wolfsburg)

  • Industrial Engineer in the Field of Production and Logistics (Volkswagen AG Wolfsburg)

  • Dual Student in the Field of Production and Logistics (Volkswagen AG Wolfsburg)



AWARDS




  • Commended Paper Award, 11th IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modeling, Management and Control, Trondheim, 2025

  • Best Presentation Award, BVL - The Supply Chain Network, International Scientific Symposium on Logistics, 2023



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PRESENTATIONS




  • Trade-off or Balance? Illuminating the Tension between Resilience and Efficiency in Retail Supply Chains. 31th European Operations Management Association (EurOMA) Conference, Barcelona, 03.07.2024.

  • Achieving Efficient Resilience Through Human Adjustments of Algorithm Prescriptions — A Retail Management Application, Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Paphos, 18.06.2024.

  • The Price of Resilience: A Model for Capturing Efficiency Losses from Pre- to Post-Disruptions Periods, International Working Seminar on Production Economics (IWSPE), Innsbruck, 18.02.2024.

  • The Price of Resilience: A Method Concept to Support the Resilience-Efficiency Trade-off Challenge, Research Workshop "Retail Systems and the Triple Challenge: Efficient, Resilient, Sustainable", Technische Universität Darmstadt, 12.07.2023.

  • How Human-AI Interaction Impacts Operational Cost of Resilience in Retail Stores. 28th PhD Candidates Workshop, International Scientific Symposium on Logistics (ISSL), Dresden, 19.06.2023.












Portrait photo of Katharina Berendes. She is wearing a white and blue striped shirt and a dark blue blazer.