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vor 5 Monaten


Karlsruhe, Deutschland Karlsruher Institut für Technologie Vollzeit

Job description

Smart technical logistics systems are major constituents of the chain of values added. They represent important links between the society, product development, and mobility systems and undergo major changes as a result of digitalization. The professorship represents an important expertise area and makes decisive contributions to the “KIT Mobility Systems Center”, the KIT Center Information Systems Technologies (KCIST), and the Innovation Campus “Future Mobility”.

The professorship will focus on the development and operation of smart technical logistics systems, including sustainable, robotic systems. Work will cover the design of control systems, modeling and performance analysis of large and complex logistics systems, and analysis of their resource efficiency. Major applications will be the use of AI and robotics in future production and distribution logistics as well as autonomous urban logistics. The future holder of the post is expected to represent methods of mathematical modeling, simulation, and optimization as well as the design of mechatronic systems in research and academic education. The professorship will be characterized by this mix of methods and by both theoretical and experimental work.

In the area of academic education, it will be the main task of the professor to impart to future engineers methods and solutions of smart technical logistics systems in research and application. Main lectures should be offered in both English and German for KIT’s Bachelor’s and Master’s Programs of Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering International, Mechatronics and Information Technology, and Business Engineering. Modern teaching formats and concepts (based on the Mechatronics Learning and


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