Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Clausen

Born 1964 in Düsseldorf

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Clausen is director of the Institute for Transport Logistics at TU Dortmund University and director of Fraunhofer-Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML. From July 2002 until July 2005 he was dean of the faculty of mechanical engineering at TU Dortmund University and from July 2005 until August 2008 he was vice dean of the very same faculty.

He studied computer sciences at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) and graduated at TU Dortmund University.

After having worked as scientific employee, he became head of the Traffic Logistics department at Fraunhofer IML. Subsequently, he worked for Deutsche Post AG as project manager for logistics and later on as managing director of the subsidiary IPP Paketbeförderung GmbH in Austria. In July 1999, he joined Amazon.de in Bad Hersfeld and, finally, he became European Operations Director at Amazon.com before he returned to Fraunhofer IML on February, 1, 2001 as one of the directors of the institute.

• Member of the Association of German Engineers, GPL Logistics Systems and Management, VDI, e. V.,
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Association of German Transport Companies (VDV), since 2002,
• Member of the Committee for Transport and Logistics of the Dortmund Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK Dortmund), since 2006,
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Logistics Association (BVL) e.V., since 2010,
• Representative of Fraunhofer in the European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI)
• since 2005 (including member of the Executive Board from 2013 to 2016),
• Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the European transport journal “Internationales Verkehrswesen” since 2012,
• Series Editor, “Lecture Notes in Logistics” (Springer) since 2012,
• Member of the Round Table on Rail Freight Transport at the Federal Ministry of Digital and Transport (BMDV) since 2016,
• Member of the Executive Board of the Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Circular Plastics Economy since 2018,
• Full Member of the National Academy of Science and Engineering acatech since 2020.
• Chairman of the Fraunhofer Transport Alliance, from 2003 to 2024
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Association for Combined Transport (SGKV) e. V., from 2011 to 2024
• Member of the Supervisory Board of LKZ GmbH, from 2012 to 2024
• Member of the International Expert Commission for the Elite Network of Bavaria, from 2020 to 2022
• Member of the editorial board of the European Transport Research Review, from 2008 to 2019
• Principal Lecturer in the logistics management degree program at the University of St. Gallen, from 2008 to 2018.
• Member of the Advisory Board of House of Logistics & Mobility (HOLM) GmbH, from 2011 to 2016
• Member of the Senate Commission for Finance, from 2011 to 2013
• Member of the “Systems Engineering” review board for the subject “Traffic and Transport Systems, Logistics, Quality Management” of the German Research Foundation (DFG), from 2004 to 2012
• Visiting Professor at Sun Yat-Sen University, Canton (Guangzhou, China), from June 2007 to June 2010
• Vice Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at TU Dortmund University, from July 2005 to August 2008
• Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at TU Dortmund University, from July 2002 to July 2005