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Johan Woxenius

Professor

Department of Business Administration
Telephone
+46 31-786 14 53
+46 709-69 38 35
Mail
johan.woxenius@gu.se
Visiting address
Vasagatan 1
41124 Göteborg
Room number
B501L
Postal address
Box 610
40530 Göteborg

About Johan Woxenius

Johan Woxenius is professor of Maritime Transport Management and Logistics at University of Gothenburg since 2008. He received the degrees of M.Sc. (Industrial engineering), PhD and associate professor/docent at Chalmers University of Technology. He has served as visiting professor at Lund University, University of Nairobi and Blekinge Institute of Technology.

His main research fields are maritime logistics and resilient supply chains and the research covers sustainability, industrial organisation, production systems, traffic designs and information systems. He also engages in urban freight research. Johan Woxenius has published about 50 research reports and 50 peer reviewed journal articles, 12 book chapters and 30 peer reviewed conference papers (includes work done at Chalmers). Ongoing research in the fields of Maritime logistics, Resilient supply chains and Sustainable logistics.

He teaches the course Maritime Logistics in the M.Sc. in Logistics and Transport Management, contributes with lectures in various other courses and supervises BSc and MSc theses.

He leads the university’s part of the maritime research and education programme Lighthouse and the Area of Advance Transport, and he is engaged in the logistics research centre Northern LEAD, all run together with Chalmers University of Technology. Johan Woxenius is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, on the scientific advisory boards of research funding organisations, associate editor of the journal Transport Reviews, on the editorial boards of journals and he frequently serves the expert evaluator. He is also member of the Scientific Committee of the World Conference on Transport Research Society.

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Research areas

  • Maritime transport
  • Resilient supply chains
  • Transport system sustainability
  • Urban freight transport
  • Logistics

Teaching areas

  • Maritime logistics
  • Shipping
  • Logistics