Clemens Gróf

Clemens is a Research Associate and Doctoral Student at the Chair of Production and Operations Management (POM) of ETH Zürich. He joined the POM team from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Hamburg, Germany, where he was conducting research on the optimization and digitalization of aviation MRO operations. Before joining the research community, Clemens had been working at an aviation maintenance and asset management organization in Tallinn, Estonia. There, he was responsible for the development, implementation and execution of an organization-wide business process management system. Furthermore, he supported in strategic IT and M&A projects. During his studies, Clemens worked for several months in the Corporate Development Center at MTU Aero Engines in Munich, Germany.

Clemens holds a Master’s degree from RWTH Aachen University in Business Administration and Mechanical Engineering, where he specialized in Aerospace Engineering. During a research visit at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, he studied platform-based and value-driven product development. The research visit was supported by the IDEA League research grant. In his Master’s thesis project, he developed a modelling- and simulation-based decision support for design of additive manufactured aircraft engine components considering lifecycle implications when applying additive manufacturing as manufacturing method. His Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering - Management, Clemens attained from the Vienna University of Technology.