Dr. KANNAN GOVINDAN

DIAS - Chair of Engineering,

Chair Professor of Operations & Supply Chain Management,

Head, Centre for Sustainable Supply Chain Engineering, 

Department of Technology and Innovation, University of Southern Denmark,

Odense, DENMARK. Mail ID :kgov@iti.sdu.dk

Contact number : 0045-65503188 (Mobile & Office)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Professor and Center Head of Centre for Sustainable Supply Chain Engineering, Department of Technology and Innovation, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), April 2017 – current,

Professor and Center Head of Centre for Engineering Operations Management, Department of Technology and Innovation, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), November 2015 – March 2017,

Professor (MSO) of Department of Business and Economics, SDU, October 2014 –October 2015,

Associate Professor of Department of Business and Economics, SDU, August 2008 –September 2014.

Senior Lecturer of Dept. of Production Engg., National Institute of Technology, July 2007- July 2008.

Lecturer of Dept. of Production Engg., National Institute of Technology, March 2006 – June 2007.

Visiting Scholar, Clark University, USA,   April 2011- June 2011, Feb 2012- June 2012.

Visiting Professor of UNESP, Bauru, Brazil,   July 2012 –Aug 2012, June 2013, May 2014 – June 2014, May 2015. Visiting Professor of Luangwa University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, Dec 2013- Jan 2014, Dec 2014.

Visiting Scholar of  Dalian University of Technology, China,  July 2011, Aug 2013

Visiting Professor and Visiting Scholar of  Dalian Maritime University, China,  Aug 2012- Sep 2012, Dec 2012 – Jan 2013, April 2013- May 2013, April 2014- May 2014.

Adjunct Professor of Beijing Jiaotong University, China, Dec 2016 – Dec 2019,

Tianjin Distinguished Professor, Tianjin Province, China, Jan 2016- June 2019.

Adjunct Professor of School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China, Dec 2018 – Dec 2021.

TEACHING INTEREST

• Green Supply Chain Management
• Sustainability
• Blockchain for Business
• Operation Management
• Logistics & Supply Chain Management (SCM)
• Supply chain links and ERP
• Supply chain Inventory & Production Planning
• Service Operation Management
• Quantitative Methods for Decision Making
• Industrial Engineering
• Multi attribute decision making

• Circular Economy
• Sustainable Operations Management
• Sustainable Circular Economy
• Industry 4.0 with Sustainable Supply Chain focus 
• Circular Supply Chain
• Blockchain applications in Supply Chain Management
• Sustainable Manufacturing
• Smart Manufacturing
• Green Supply Chain Management
• Reverse Logistics
• Closed Loop Supply Chain
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Corporate Sustainability
• Sustainable Consumption and Production
• Extended Producer Responsibility
• Industry 4.0 with Sustainable Supply Chain focus 
• Resource and energy efficient supply chain / manufacturing 
• Supply Chain Network Design
• Supply Chain Risk Management
• Supply Chain Decision Making and Optimization
• Optimizations Methods
• Decision Analysis
• Multi Attribute Decision Making methods (Multi Criteria Decision Making and Multi Objective Decision Making)
• Analytical Modelling Fuzzy and Grey Set Theory
• Quality Engineering

RESEARCH STATEMENT

My research is primarily in sustainable operations, logistics, technology, and supply chains. For more than ten years, I have worked with the construction of global logistics and supply chain networks. My research is based on the development of decision-making models and toolkits for sustainable and intelligent manufacturing. Most of my theoretical models are driven and validated by case studies. In collaboration with Danish and global companies the goal is to increase environmental and social sustainability and to promote reuse of resources, minimize waste, save raw materials, and share the resources available. My interest in sustainability drives me as a researcher to become a global leader/researcher in the area of sustainable operations. In the future, I would like to explore the potential opportunities of global sustainability with the focus of supply chain partners contributing to the sustainability and towards achieving the circular loop. Another global issues that will be threatening to the supply chain will be migration, sharing resources, resilient supply chains, reuse of (raw) materials, green, environmentally friendly production which I will also focus in next few years. 

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Cleaner Logistics and Supply Chain, Elsevier 

International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling, Inderscience Publishers, Switzerland

International Journal of Advanced Operations Management, Inderscience Publishers, Switzerland

EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Journal of Cleaner Production (JCLP) (Aug 2020 – till date)

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Journal of Cleaner Production (JCLP) (Aug 2015 – Aug 2020)

EDITOR

Annals of Operations Research (ANOR) (Sep 2018 – till date)

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Transportation Research Part E  (Aug 2020 – till date)

SENIOR EDITOR

Industrial Management & Data Systems (June 2020 – till date)

 AREA  EDITOR

Information Systems and Operational Research (INFOR) (June 2016 – till date)

RESEARCH IMPACTS (Google Scholar / Scopus / WOS)

• Published over 385 peer-reviewed research articles in journals, conferences and books.
• h-index of 97
• Total citation 30440+ (until 10 May 2021)
• Field-Weighted Citation Impact 6,38 (> 6 times average)
• Number of first and corresponding authorships: 250+
• Highly Cited and hot papers: 37 (Web of Science)