Supervisor list from Department of Economics and Business Economics Bachelor’s Thesis in Economics and Business Administration

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Supervisor list from

Department of Economics and Business Economics

Bachelor’s Thesis in Economics and Business Administration

On 1 December at the latest, you must register your thesis topic and thesis supervisor on your study portal. If you do not register your thesis by the deadline, you will have limited opportunity to influence the choice of supervisor. Please note that we always reserve the right to allocate the best suited supervisor to you.

Accounting

Name E-mail

Language of

supervision Topics in spring/autumn 2022 Finn Schøler fsc@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Værdiansættelse

• Regnskabsanalyse

• Eksternt årsregnskab

• Valuation

• Financial statement analysis

• Corporate governance in a financial accounting perspective

Leonidas Enrique de la Rosa

delarosa@econ.au.dk Danish and English

• Cost accounting and decision making

• Performance evaluation, incentive systems, motivation

• Management systems and organization

• Disclosure of private information

• Psychological biases Marie Herly mherly@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Financial statement analysis and valuation

• Banks and financial institutions

• Empirical corporate finance Palle Nierhoff info@nierhoff.dk Danish • Financial statement analysis

• The analytical income statement and balance sheet

• Profitability analysis

• Liquidity risk analysis

• Credit analysis

• M&A

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Name E-mail

Language of

supervision Topics in spring/autumn 2022

• Valuation

• IPO/private equity/venture capital Qing Liu qingl@econ.au.dk English • Financial accounting

• Financial statement analysis Steen Nielsen sni@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Moderne økonomistyringsværktøjer (BSC, ABC, Lean m.fl.)

• Budgetmodeller

• Simulation i økonomistyring og eksternt regnskab

• Økonomistyring i det offentlige

Thomas Krog tk@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Eksternt årsregnskab

• Regnskabsanalyse

• Værdiansættelser Yuan Li yuanli@econ.au.dk English • Financial accounting

Business Intelligence

Name E-mail

Language of

supervision Topics in spring/autumn 2022 Bjarne Taulo

Sørensen

bjarne.taulo@econ.au.dk Danish and English

• Analysis of scanner data

• Segmentation

• Customer satisfaction

• Positioning

• Consumer behaviour

• Market research analyses in general

• Marketing

• Employee satisfaction analysis John Kennes jkennes@econ.au.dk English • The market for CEOs

• Customer markets

• Mortgage markets

• Housing markets

• Job amenities Jorge Hansen jorge@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Forecasting with machine learning methods

• Forecasting with Google trends

• Text mining

• Forecasting accounting/financial variables

• Forecasting macro variables

• Time series analysis Mads Brink Hansen mcbh@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Business Intelligence

• Data warehouse

• Big data

• Performance management

• Machine Learning

• Design thinking & data-driven innovation

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Language of

• Data visualization Mogens Dilling-

Hansen

dilling@econ.au.dk Danish and English

• Case studies

• Brancheanalyser/industry studies

• Analyse af konkret virksomhed/firm performance

• Strategiske analyser/strategic analysis

• Industriøkonomiske emner/industrial organization

• Innovation/Research & Development

• Markedsanalyser/market research

• Kundetilfredshedsanalyser/customer satisfaction

• Kvantitative analyser generelt/

quantitative analysis in general

Pierluigi Vallarino pv@econ.au.dk English • Return forecasting with machine/deep learning

Steen Andersen sta@econ.au.dk Danish and English

• Market research

• Factor analysis

• Applied statistics Steen Nielsen sni@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Performance measurement and management (private and public companies)

• Modern management accounting models (e.g. balanced scorecard, activity-based costing, stress analysis, etc.)

• Stochastic budget simulation

Econometrics

Name E-mail

Language of

supervision Topics in spring/autumn 2022 Bjarne Taulo

Sørensen

bjarne.taulo@econ.au.dk Danish and English

• Analysis of scanner data

• Segmentation

• Customer satisfaction

• Positioning

• Consumer behaviour

• Market research analyses in general

• Marketing

• Employee satisfaction analysis Mathias Danielsen

Plovst

mpo@econ.au.dk Danish and English

• Modelling, forecasting, and analysing future longevity

Mathias Sjøgreen Krogh

msk@econ.au.dk Danish and English

• Forecasting macroeconomic variables

• Forecast evaluation

• Forecast combinations

• Non-linear time-series models

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Name E-mail

Language of

supervision Topics in spring/autumn 2022 Mogens Dilling-

Hansen

• Case studies

• Brancheanalyser/ Industry studies

• Strategiske analyser/strategic analyses

• Innovation/Research & Development

• Markedsanalyser/market research

• Kundetilfredshedsanalyser/customer satisfaction

quantitative analyses in general

Pierluigi Vallarino pv@econ.au.dk English • Time series econometrics: score-driven models

• Dynamic models for (multiple) quantiles with a view towards financial risk management

• Financial econometrics

Economics

Name E-mail

Language of

supervision Topics in spring/autumn 2022 Ahmad Hassani ahass@econ.au.dk English • Real estate economics

• Urban economics

• Housing economics Alexander Koch akoch@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Experimental economics

• Behavioural economics

• Behavioural economics applied in Citizen Science games

• Applied micro theory

• Organisational economics

• Personnel economics Allan Sørensen allans@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• International economics

• International trade

• Industrial economics & Industry dynamics

• Economics of globalization Anna Piil Damm apd@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Økonomiske analyser af boligmarkedet, indvandring, kriminalitet,

arbejdsmarkedet, uddannelse / Economic analyses of housing markets,

immigration, crime, the (Danish) labour market, education

Astrid Würtz Rasmussen

awr@econ.au.dk Danish and English

• Family economics and family friendly policies

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Language of

• Population economics

• Labour economics and evaluation of labour market policies

• Education

Bastian Schulz bastian.schulz@econ.au.dk English • Gender differences in the labour market

• Household decision making (labour supply, risk sharing, marriage/divorce)

• Social insurance

• Wage inequality

• Job search Carsten B. Andersen candersen@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Social mobility

• Health economics

• Non-market valuation

• Wind turbines and the housing market Christian Bjørnskov chbj@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Economic growth

• Political economy

• Foreign aid Claes Bäckman claes.backman@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Housing and mortgage markets

• Wealth inequality

• Consumption and savings

• Household debt

• Debt Daniel Borup dborup@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Predictability in natural gas markets (returns, volatility, etc.)

• Text mining (e.g. news media, surveys, Google Trends) for commodities markets

• Forecasting of macroeconomic (labour market, business cycle, inflation variables, etc.) or financial variables (asset returns, volatility, etc.)

• Machine learning applications in finance and macroeconomics

Daniele Nosenzo daniele.nosenzo@econ.au.dk English • Experimental economics

• Behavioural economics Elena Mattana emattana@econ.au.dk English • Economics of education

• Labour economics

• Family economics

• Urban economics (school integration)

• Macroeconomics (inequality, student debt)

Eva Rye Johansen erjohansen@econ.au.dk Danish and English

• Education economics

• Risky health behaviour Frederic Warzynski fwa@econ.au.dk English • Industrial economics

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Language of

• Economics of strategy (in particular how to align organizational structure with strategy)

• Personnel economics (analysis of careers and wages within firms)

• Estimation of productivity growth

• Mark-ups and the effect of competition on efficiency (e.g. the dynamics of competition in new EU member states)

• Outsourcing and efficiency Giovanni Pellegrino gpellegrino@econ.au.dk English • Monetary economics

• Applied macroeconometrics (structural vector autoregressions and effects of macroeconomic shocks)

• Uncertainty

• International macroeconomics Hanna Fromell hanna.fromell@econ.au.dk English • Development

Ilya Manuylov imanuylov@econ.au.dk English • Industrial economics

• Automation and Innovation

• International trade

• Globalisation and integration

• Economic growth

Ina Charlotte Jäkel inaj@econ.au.dk English • Globalization and trade policy

• Firm internationalization

• International migration

• European integration

• Firm performance: productivity, product quality, outsourcing etc.

Jackie M. L. Chan jmlchan@econ.au.dk English • Globalization and international trade

• Foreign direct investment (FDI)

• Multinational firms

• Chinese and Asian economies Jan Bentzen jb@econ.au.dk Danish • Bæredygtighed og miljøindikatorer

• Havvindmøller, energiforbrug og transport

• Danmarks olie- og gasudvinding

• Energiforbrug og CO2-udledninger John Kennes jkennes@econ.au.dk English • Matching teachers to schools

• Marriage markets

• Market design

• Teams

• Unemployment Jonas Maibom maibom@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Job search and unemployment

• Labour market models/policies

• Labour economics

• Economics of the welfare state

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Language of

• Wage inequality Jonas Søndergaard

Sørensen

jss@econ.au.dk Danish and English

• Housing economics

Jos Jansen jjansen@econ.au.dk English • Industrial economics and strategic interaction of firms

• Regulation, competition policy and anticompetitive strategies

• Strategies for the digital economy and innovation

• Microeconomic analysis of marketing

• Information and markets Julia Nafziger jnafziger@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Incentives in organisations

• Industrial organization Lars Skipper lskipper@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Labour market policy evaluation

• Applied microeconometrics

• Firm-based training and productivity

• Health economics Leonidas Enrique de

la Rosa

• Information economics

• Game theory (e.g. signalling, screening)

• Psychology and economics

• Principal-agent models (hidden action, hidden information)

• Incentives and motivation Luca Macedoni lmacedoni@econ.au.dk English • Trade policy

• Firms in international trade Marie-Louise Vierø mlv@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Decision theory

• Microeconomic theory

Mark Weder mweder@econ.au.dk English • Macroeconomics; business cycles and monetary policy

• Topics – MACRO

• Topics in Monetary Economics, Expectations and Macroeconomics Martin Paldam mpaldam@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Udviklingsøkonomi/Development economics

• Public Choice Mathias Sjøgreen

Krogh

• Empirical effects of monetary policy

• Structural vector autoregressions (SVAR)

• Time-series methods in macroeconomics Mette Trier

Damgaard

mdamgaard@econ.au.d k

Danish and English

• Behavioural economics/adfærdsøkonomi

• Nudging/adfærdsdesign

• Industrial Economics/industriøkonomi

• Cartel formation/karteldannelse

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Name E-mail

Language of

supervision Topics in spring/autumn 2022 Michael Christensen mic@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Personal economics

• Macroeconomics

• Monetary theory and policy

• Finance

Michael Koch mkoch@econ.au.dk English • Labour market effects of globalization

• Firms in international trade Michael Svarer msvarer@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Housing economics

• Labour economics Mogens Dilling-

Hansen

• Case studies

• Brancheanalyser/industry studies

• Strategiske analyser/strategic analysis

• Innovation/research & development

• Markedsanalyser/market research, Kundetilfredshedsanalyser/customer satisfaction

quantitative analysis in general Nabanita Datta

Gupta

ndg@econ.au.dk Danish and English

• Health and the labour market

• Gender differences in the labour market

• Childcare and educational investments

• Retirement, ageing and social security

• Labour markets in developing countries Nickolas Gagnon nickolasgagnon@econ.au.dk English • Experimental economics

• Economics of discrimination Nicola Maaser nmaaser@econ.au.dk English • Applied game theory

• Industrial organization

• Political economy Nicoline Josephine

Bach

njb@econ.au.dk Danish and English

• Family economics and family friendly policies

• Economics of gender

• Labour economics and evaluation of labour market policies

• Education Niels Nannerup nna@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Applied microeconomics

• Energy economics Niels Peter Mols nmols@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Transaction cost theory

• Resource-based view of the firm

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Language of

• Foreign entry mode

• Make-or-buy analysis

• Economic analysis of contracts Niels Skipper nskipper@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Health economics Peter Jensen pje@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Economics of education Philipp Schröder psc@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Industrial economics and firm strategies

• Globalisation/trade/FDI/migration

• Global firms and internationalization

• European economic issues

• Competition policy

• Economic policy (euro, fiscal, debt, reforms)

• Country studies

• Sector studies Rui Zhang rayzhangrui23@econ.au.dk English • International trade

• Firms in the global economy

• Quantitative spatial economics

• Chinese economy Rune Majlund Vejlin rvejlin@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Search and matching models

• Topics in labour economics

• Unemployment durations and labour market policies

• Wage inequality

Sarah Schroeder sschroeder@econ.au.dk English • Globalisation, trade and FDI

• Firms and workers in the global economy

• Multinational firms

• Artificial Intelligence and labour markets Simon Ravnsbæk

Bruun

srb@econ.au.dk Danish and English

• Policy evaluation

• Environmental economics Steen Nielsen sni@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Performance measurement and management (private and public companies)

• Design and simulation of accounting models (both within management and financial acc., e.g. balanced scorecard, activity-based costing, stress analysis)

• Stochastic budget simulation Timo Hener thener@econ.au.dk English • Environmental economics

• Family and population economics

• Health and labour economics

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Language of

• Economics of crime, public policy and evaluation

Timo Trimborn tt@econ.au.dk English • Fiscal policy

• Economic growth

• Population economics

• Environmental economics

• Housing economics Tor Eriksson tor@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Asian economies (esp. China, Japan)

• Personnel economics (economic analysis of wage and HRM politics within firms and organizations)

• Understanding differences in performance between individuals or firms or countries

• International labour markets

• Corporate performance differences: what explains them?

• Incentive systems in firms and

organizations: what works, what not and why?

• Corporate performance differences Trine Skriver Høholt

Jensen

tshj@econ.au.dk Danish and English

• Educational economics

• Economics of migration and immigration

• Applied microeconomics Valdemar Smith vsmith@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Strategiske analyser af

virksomheder/Strategic analyses

• Industriøkonomiske emner, karteldannelser, fusioner og

virksomhedsovertagelser osv./Industrial economics and firm strategies

• Analyser af brancher, konkurrence, globalisering og vækst/Sector studies, globalisation, competition

• Konkurrencepolitik og konkurrencebegrænsende

strategier/Competition policy and anticompetitive strategies

• Boligmarkedet/The housing market Valerie Smeets vas@econ.au.dk English • International trade and firms’

organization

• Automation and skills

• Retraining

• Economic consequences of COVID-19

• Firm growth and productivity Ying Dai yingdai@econ.au.dk English • International trade

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Name E-mail

Language of

• Global value chains (GVCs)

• Industrial organization

Finance

Name E-mail

Language of

supervision Topics in spring/autumn 2022 Anders Merrild

Posselt

amp@econ.au.dk Danish and English

• Derivatives

• ETFs

• Asset pricing Anil Kumar akumar@econ.au.dk English • Corporate finance

• Real estate finance

• Real estate indices

• Real option

• Return comovement Carsten Tanggaard ctanggaard@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Equity financing of small enterprises

• Speculation in financial instruments

• Securities lending, short-selling and dividend tax-arbitrage

• Measurement of transactions costs

• Topics in markets in financial instruments

Christoph Merkle cmerkle@econ.au.dk English • Personal finance

• Behavioural finance

• Financial forecasting

• Experimental finance/economics

• Financial technology Daniel Borup dborup@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Predictability in natural gas markets (returns, volatility, etc.)

• Text mining (e.g. news media, surveys, Google Trends) for commodities markets

• Forecasting of macroeconomic (labour market, business cycle, inflation variables, etc.) or financial variables (asset returns, volatility, etc.)

• Machine learning applications in finance and macroeconomics

Einar Kjenstad einar.kjenstad@econ.au.dk English • Financial intermediation

• FinTech

• Strategic interaction and corporate policy

• Corporate finance Erik Christian

Montes Schütte

christianms@econ.au.dk Danish and English

• Forecasting

• Return predictability

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Language of

• Machine learning methods in finance Jan Bartholdy jby@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Corporate finance: M&A, IPO, capital structure, dividend policy etc.

• Behavioural corporate finance

• ESG and sustainable finance

• Banking Jingying Zhou Lykke jzlykke@econ.au.dk English • Asset pricing

• Pricing of derivatives

• Equity valuation using free cash flow method

John Kennes jkennes@econ.au.dk English • Household finance

• CEOs

• Monetary exchange

• Application of matching theory to finance

• Market design Jonas Nygaard

Eriksen

jeriksen@econ.au.dk Danish and English

• Empirical asset pricing

• Monetary policy and risk premia

• Forecasting in economics and finance Jorge Hansen jorge@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Interest rate modelling

• Textual analysis in finance

• Fixed income modelling and forecasting Ken Gamskjaer kg@hemonto.com Danish and

English

• Investeringsforeninger/mutual funds

• Resultat af MFID II for investor/MFID II from an investor perspective

• Etiske investeringer/sustainable investing

• Porteføljeoptimering/portfolio optimization

• Porteføljeteori/portfolio theory

• Behavioural finance (home bias, anomalies etc.)

Leonidas Enrique de la Rosa

• Behavioural finance

• Contract theory

• Incentive design

• Governance structures

• Financial regulation and supervision

• Bank liquidity and capital requirements (e.g. Basel Accords)

Leyla Yusifzada leyla.yusif@econ.au.dk English • Corporate finance

• Empirical corporate finance

• Banking

• Financial stability Mads Markvart Kjær mads.markvart@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Forecasting financial variables (returns, volatility, etc.)

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Name E-mail

Language of

• Interest rate modelling Magnus Bjørn

Frische

mfrische@econ.au.dk Danish and English

• Green finance Malene Kallestrup-

Lamb

mkallestrup@econ.au.dk Danish and English

• Longevity risk

• Pension and Retirement

• Mortality modelling

• Health Marie Herly mherly@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Financial statement analysis and valuation

• Banks and financial institutions

• Empirical corporate finance.

Martin Møller Andreasen

mandreasen@econ.au.dk Danish and English

• Fixed-income modelling

• Consumption-based asset pricing

• Asset Pricing Mathias Danielsen

Plovst

mpo@econ.au.dk Danish and English

• Longevity risk

• Pension products Mathias Sjøgreen

Krogh

• Stock return predictability

• Cross-sectional asset pricing Matthias Lassak lassak@econ.au.dk English • Rating agencies

• Financial analysts

• Price informativeness

• Real effects of financial markets

• Real effects of financial accounting Michael Christensen mic@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Personal economics

• Macroeconomics

• Monetary theory and policy

• Finance Niels Strange

Grønborg

ngroenborg@econ.au.dk Danish and English

• Empirical finance

• Mutual fund performance

• Portfolio theory Nikolaj Niebuhr

Lambertsen

nkniebuhr@econ.au.dk Danish and English

• CEO overconfidence

Olga Balakina olga.balakina@econ.au.dk English • Financial literacy and stock market investment

• Mutual funds regulation and performance

• Algorithmic trading and market efficiency

Palle Nierhoff info@nierhoff.dk Danish • Financial statement analysis

• The analytical income statement and balance sheet

• Profitability analysis

• Liquidity risk analysis

• Credit analysis

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• M&A valuation

• IPO/private equity/venture capital Peter Løchte

Jørgensen

plj@econ.au.dk Danish and English

• Derivatives

• Asset management

• Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) and ESG

• Financial regulation

• Risk management and measures Pierluigi Vallarino pv@econ.au.dk English • Option pricing

• Asset pricing

• Risk management Ran Xing ran.xing@econ.au.dk English • Empirical asset pricing

• Mutual fund performance

• Quantitative investment strategies

• Profitability of technical analysis Stig Vinther Møller svm@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Asset pricing

• Empirical finance

• Time-varying risk premia and the macroeconomy

• Economic forecasting Thomas Kokholm thko@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Credit risk

• Derivatives pricing

• Fixed income securities

• Volatility modelling and volatility derivatives

• Asset allocation Tom Engsted tengsted@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Empirical analysis of price and return determination in stock and bond markets

• Empirical analysis of return

predictability in stock and bond markets Torben Smith

Pedersen

tsp@jyskebank.dk Danish and English

• Pricing strategy

• Customer insight and analytical CRM

• Portfolio theory

• Risk management

• Risk modelling and quantitative analysis Wasiem Husain whu@stark.dk Danish and

English

• Corporate valuation

Yuan Li yuanli@econ.au.dk English • Stock return predictability in cross- section

• Market efficiency

• Accounting based valuation

• Financial earnings’ forecasts Yue Xu yuexu@econ.au.dk English • Empirical asset pricing

• Mutual funds

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Language of

• Hedge funds

• Corporate finance Özge Serbest ozgeserbest@econ.au.dk English • Volatility modelling

• Integration of financial markets

• Emerging markets

• Forecasting

• Machine learning

Operations and SCM

Name E-mail

Language of

supervision Topics in spring/autumn 2022 Ata Jalili Marand atajalili@econ.au.dk English • Service operations management

• Service/queue pricing

• Operations management

• Supply chain management

• Operations-marketing coordination Christian Larsen chl@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Inventory control

• Production planning and control

• Simulation

• Optimization Erland Hejn Nielsen ehn@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Operations and supply chain

management (SCM), in particular demand management as well as LEAN/production management

• Dynamic systems analysis, in particular stochastic queuing systems and system dynamic

Hartanto Wijaya Wong

hwong@econ.au.dk English • Supply chain design and management

• Inventory management

• Production planning

• Simulation

Hongyan Jenny Li hojl@econ.au.dk English • Operations and supply chain management

• Business process modelling and improvement

• Optimization and simulation

• Multiple criteria decision making

• Revenue and price optimization Jens Lysgaard lys@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Routing

• Distribution planning

• Heuristics

• Optimization methods Jesper Bang

Mikkelsen

jbmikkelsen@econ.au.dk Danish and English

• Green vehicle routing

• Fleet optimization

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Language of

supervision Topics in spring/autumn 2022 Julian Georg Simon

Baals

juba@econ.au.dk English • Optimization and heuristics in just-in-time logistics

Lars Relund Nielsen larsrn@econ.au.dk Danish and English

• Optimization

• Simulation

• Production planning and control

• Scheduling, routing, distribution and transportation

• Multi criteria optimization Marcel Turkensteen matu@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Sustainability and logistics (e.g.

environmental impact of products)

• Transportation, location and routing

• Network design Michael Malmros

Sørensen

mim@econ.au.dk Danish and English

• Decision analysis

• Distribution and transportation

• Logistics & supply chain management

• Optimization modelling

• Simulation modelling Sanne Wøhlk sanw@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Distribution and transportation

• Optimization and heuristics

• Transport and planning related to waste collection

• Waste and recycling

• Optimization in project planning Simon Niklas Emde siem@econ.au.dk English • Scheduling

• Optimization methods

• Supply Chain Management (SCM)

• Transportation Steen Nielsen sni@econ.au.dk Danish and

English

• Supply chain costing

• Performance management in supply chains

• Profitability analysis and performance of distribution channels

• Statistical performance (e.g. using data mining and machine learning)

Sune Lauth Gadegaard

sgadegaard@econ.au.dk Danish and English

• Optimization

• Scheduling and workforce planning

• Vehicle routing

• Facility location

• Production planning

Supervisor list from Department of Economics and Business Economics Bachelor’s Thesis in Economics and Business Administration