Stefan Minner is a Full Professor for Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the School of Management, Technical University of Munich, Germany. Before, he held positions at the Universities of Paderborn, Mannheim, and Vienna. He studied Business Administration with specialization in Operations Research at the University of Bielefeld, received his doctoral degree from the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg, and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Calgary. His primary research interests are logistics network design under uncertainty, transportation optimization including smart mobility concepts, and inventory management. Recent projects include logistics for the automotive industry, retail operations, and last-mile city logistics. In his consulting work, Stefan Minner has cooperated with several national and international companies from various industries. Stefan Minner serves on several editorial boards of logistics and operations research journals. Currently, Stefan Minner is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Production Economics. His research was published in many peer reviewed journals, including Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, Transportation Research Part B, European Journal of Operational Research and OR Spectrum. In 2014, he was listed among the top 25 most productive researchers in Business Administration in Germany by Handelsblatt. He is a fellow of the International Society for Inventory Research (ISIR), vice-chairman of the scientific advisory board of the German Logistics Association (BVL), a member of the Research Committee of the European Logistics Association (ELA), and the speaker of the research training group “Advanced Optimization in a Networked Economy (AdONE)” at Technical University of Munich.