Katja Windt

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Katja Windt (born June 4, 1969 in Bonn ) has been a member of the management team at SMS group GmbH , a system provider of systems, machines and services for the production and processing of steel, aluminum and non-ferrous metals , since April 1, 2018 In Dusseldorf. The professor for Global Production Logistics was previously President of Jacobs University Bremen . She has received several awards for her scientific achievements.

biography

Windt completed her degree in mechanical engineering with a focus on production technology at Leibniz University in Hanover . She spent a year as a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA . In 2000 she received her doctorate in engineering. at the Institute for Factory Systems and Logistics (IFA) in Hanover and then moved to the University of Bremen . There she worked as a department head at the Institute for Production and Logistics (BIBA) and as a sub-project manager in the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 637 , self-control of logistical processes .

In February 2008 she was appointed professor for the Global Production Logistics chair in the international course International Logistics Engineering and Management at the private Jacobs University Bremen in Bremen . Her teaching area included logistics as the holistic planning and control of logistical processes. In her research, she dealt with the development of planning and control methods for the production of industrial goods in global network structures, with a focus on the entire value chain from the procurement of raw materials through production to the delivery of the products to customers, especially in automobile production stands.

Since May 2011 she has been a member of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Post AG and since May 11, 2012 a member of the Supervisory Board of Fraport AG .

In 2013, Windt moved up to the management of Jacobs University as Provost and Vice-President, in order to manage the university together with Heinz-Otto Peitgen . In 2014, she succeeded Peitgen as President of Jacobs University. In January 2018 she moved to SMS group GmbH.

Windt is married and has three children.

Awards

In 2004, Katja Windt and Jörg Müssig were the first engineers to be appointed to the Young Academy of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . In 2006 she was the spokesperson for the Junge Akademie.

In July 2008 she was awarded the Alfried Krupp Prize for Young University Lecturers from the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation in Essen . The prize, endowed with one million euros , which serves to promote their research and is distributed over five years, was presented to Windt in February 2009.

In November 2008, she was from the German Association of University Professors for high school teacher of the year named.

Windt is also a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (Acatech) . In March 2016 she was elected a member ( matriculation number 7684 ) of the Leopoldina .

Publications (selection)

literature

  • Leopoldina Newly Elected Members 2016, Leopoldina, Halle (Saale) 2017, p. 51 ( PDF )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank Hethey: President Windt assigns . ( weser-kurier.de [accessed on March 29, 2018]).
  2. ↑ a b "Alfried Krupp Award 2008 for Katja Windt" ( Memento from December 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), press release from the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation of July 2, 2008 (accessed on February 5, 2009).
  3. ↑ academic leadership: Katja Windt is appointed as Provost and Vice President of Jacobs University ( Memento from November 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), press release from Jacobs University (accessed on November 6, 2012)
  4. ↑ "Jacobs Uni is repositioning itself" Weser-Kurier, March 14, 2014
  5. ↑ "High distinction: Katja Windt and Jörg Müssig appointed to 'Die Junge Akademie'" , press release of the University of Bremen on July 2nd, 2004 (accessed on February 5th, 2009).
  6. ^ "Alfried Krupp-Förderpreis 2008 for Jacobs University professor" ( Memento of October 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), press release of the Jacobs University Bremen of July 4, 2008 (accessed on February 5, 2009).
  7. ↑ "German University Association appoints Katja Windt as 'University Lecturer of the Year 2008'" , press release from Jacobs University Bremen, in: idw - Informationsdienst Wissenschaft of November 27, 2008 (accessed on February 5, 2009).
  8. ↑ “A woman, a plan” , article by Nicolas Büchse in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , No. 15, April 2, 2009 (accessed on May 16, 2009).
  9. ↑ Member entry by Katja Windt at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 3, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Windt, Katja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scientist in the field of mechanical engineering and logistics
DATE OF BIRTH 4th June 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn