Seifert, Lysann, Dr.

Short Bio

Dr. Lysann Seifert is a member of staff at the Strategic Foresight Hub at ETH Zurich, and also supports the HumOSCM Lab of the Chair of Logistics Management as a project assistant. With a professional background and expertise of 10+ years, Lysann combines experiences in supply chain management, innovation management, and humanitarian logistics. On previous engagements, she worked as a Management and Business Intelligence Consultant in the life sciences industry, where she was part of multinational projects, such as the end-to-end supply chain control tower. She also worked as a Humanitarian Aid Assistant at a Swiss NGO to gain practical experience in emergency relief and development aid operations. 

Lysann holds a German Diploma of Languages and Business Administration from University of Applied Sciences Zwickau, Germany and Tongji University Shanghai, China, an MBA degree from Liverpool John Moore University, UK, and a PhD from the University of Kassel, Germany. 

During her doctoral program she focused on sustainable humanitarian operations in refugee camps, spent an exchange year at University of Sussex in Brighton, UK, and taught the module Management of Innovation. Her research interests include humanitarian supply  chain and operations management, lean and innovation management.