Seifert, Lysann

Short Bio

Lysann is a Project and Research Assistant at the HumOSCM Lab of the Chair of Logistics Management. With a professional background expertise of 10+ years, Lysann combines experiences in supply chain management, innovation management, and humanitarian logistics. On her 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 as well as an MBA degree from Liverpool John Moore University, UK. Besides her work at the HumOSCM Lab, she pursues a PhD in Business Economics at the University of Kassel, Germany, focusing on sustainable humanitarian operations in refugee camps. During her doctoral program she 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.