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Düsseldorf/Vallendar, November 2, 2015. Two new professors have begun teaching at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management on November 1. Professor Dr. Nadine Kammerlander has assumed the Chair of Family Business. Professor Dr. Liji Shen has been appointed to the newly created Chair of Operations Management.
"We are very pleased to have been able to win two new faculty members for our business school, Professor Dr. Nadine Kammerlander and Professor Dr. Liji Shen. With their international reputations, they will strengthen WHU's position and contribute to the faculty’s diversity," said Professor Dr. Markus Rudolf, Dean of WHU.
Professor Dr. Nadine Kammerlander joins WHU from the University of St. Gallen, where she previously held an assistant professorship in general business administration, specializing in family businesses. After studying Physics in Munich and Lund she completed her PhD at the Otto-Friedrich University in Bamberg.
After completing her studies Professor Dr. Kammerlander worked as senior consultant at McKinsey & Company in Munich. She brings with her international experience having taught at the University of Cagliari and the University of Bergamo. Her work focuses on family businesses, innovation and entrepreneurship in family businesses as well as succession and governance structures. Professor Dr. Kammerlander’s work has been recognized numerous times. In 2013 she received the Award for the best dissertation on family businesses from the Family Firm Institute (FFI), followed by the Hans-Löwel dissertation award from the Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg in 2014 and the Latsis Research Award from the University of St. Gallen.
Professor Dr. Liji Shen last taught at TU Dresden, where she was Director of the research group Operations Research. Born and raised in China she studied at Shanghai Maritime University and consequently worked at Sinotrans Shipment Agency in Shanghai. She then studied International Management at the Technical University of Dresden, where she also completed her PhD and in 2015 completed her habilitation. She was a visiting researcher at École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, Gardanne.
Professor Dr. Shen’s work has been recognized with several academic awards, including the Award for Diploma Theses from the German Operations Research Society (GOR) in 2007, the DAAD-Award for Best Foreign Students and the Prize for the Best Graduates 2006 of the Department of Business and Economics at the TU Dresden. For her doctoral thesis she was award the Dr. Feldbausch Prize for Excellent Doctoral Theses in 2010. In 2013 she received the research grant "Support the Best" for outstanding scientists from DFG and TU. Professor Dr. Shen‘s special research interests include the areas of metaheuristic methodologies, combinatorial optimization problems as well as the interface between operational research and artificial intelligence
Prof. Dr. Nadine Kammerlander
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Prof. Dr. Liji Shen
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