Stefan Spinler

Prof. Dr. Stefan Spinler holds the Chair of Logistics Management at WHU ‐ Otto Beisheim School of Management. He received a master's degree in electrical engineering from Friedrich‐Alexander University in Erlangen, with research stays at University College London and Bell Labs (USA). In 1997, he was awarded the diploma in electrical engineering. Subsequently, he joined Infineon Technologies with responsibilities in process integration, quality, and supply chain management. From October 1999 to August 2002, Prof. Spinler was a doctoral student in the department of Production Management and taught at WHU and Leipzig Graduate School of Management (HHL).
His research on options on capacity has been presented at international conferences and leading US business schools. Moreover, his research was awarded several prizes, most notably the Management Science Strategic Innovation Award (from EURO) as well as the GOR dissertation award. Upon the completion of his doctoral studies, Prof. Spinler spent a year as a lecturer at the Wharton School, where he taught classes in the MBA and PhD programs and developed a real options class for executives. He has been invited to teach the real options class at MIT as a guest professor in their Leaders for Manufacturing Program. He was awarded the best guest lecturer award twice at HHL. His postdoctoral degree (Habilitation) covered aspects of market‐based supply chain coordination and was completed in September 2008. In January 2009, Prof. Spinler was appointed to the Chair of Logistics Management at WHU, which until 2021 was sponsored by the Kühne Foundation.