Sven Axsäter

Biography

Master of Science in Technical Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 1965. Tekn lic in Optimization and Systems Theory, 1967. Docent, Linköping Institute of Technology, 1977

Sven Axsäter held a Research Fellowship at Stanford University, 1967-1968. He was a consultant in Operations Research at Datema AB 1969-1970 and at Esselte ARKO AB 1970-1972. He then joined Linköping Institute of Technology as Associate Professor. He was Acting Professor of Optimization, 1977, and Acting Professor of Production Economics, 1978-1979. During 1978-1979 he was Chairman of the Department of Production Economics. He became Professor in Production Economics in 1982. During 1980 he was Visiting Professor at North Carolina State University. In 1984 he left Linköping for a professorship in Transportation and Material Flow Systems at Luleå University of Technology. He became Professor of Production Management at Lund University in 1993. In 2001 and 2004 he served as Visiting Professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and in 2007 and 2008 at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He was Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2009. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

Teaching

Sven Axsäter has been teaching a wide range of courses especially in Production Management, Transportation and Logistics, Operations Research and Optimization.

Research

The main focus of Sven Axsäter's research has been production and inventory control. Past and current interests include: hierarchical production planning, lot sizing, and most recently multi-echelon inventory systems. He has published numerous papers in the leading journals in his research area. Sven Axsäter has also served in an editorial capacity in various journals, including many years of service as Associate Editor of both Operations Research and Management Science.

Sven Axsäter has been President of the International Society of Inventory Research, and Vice President of the Production and Operations Management Society. In 2005 he was awarded the Harold Larnder Memorial Prize by the Canadian Operational Research Society for distinguished international achievement in Operational Research. He received the MSOM Distinguished Fellow Award in 2008.

In addition, he has a vast consulting experience in the inventory management area. He has implemented inventory control in several companies, and has also developed software for commercial inventory control systems.

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E-mail: Sven.Axsater@iml.lth.se

Phone: +46 46 222 33 87

Mobile phone: +46 76 2723734