Dr. Jasmina Holst

Jasmina is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Production and Operations Management (POM) at ETH Zürich and a Hoffmann Fellow of the Word Economic Forum. With her research on Future-ready Sustainable Manufacturing Networks, she advances the understanding on how to implement and manage sustainable practices, processes, and strategies in operations management. The current project focuses on scenarios on future value chain configurations in 2050 across the dimensions integrated sustainability, end-to-end collaboration, and technology adoption.  

Jasmina graduated from Kühne Logistics University in Hamburg with a PhD in Supply Chain and Operations Management. In her doctoral thesis she explored critical capabilities of responsive supply chains to manage uncertainties of the 2020s. Specifically, she examined ad hoc supply chains built during the Covid-19 pandemic, mobile digital factories deployed in highly flexible supply chains, and constraints in agricultural supply chains during the Russia-Ukraine war. These topics reflect her passion for topical research on undertheorized supply chain phenomena and her expertise in case study and qualitative research.

The research project on mobile digital factories was funded by the Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) which engineered a prototype. As part of this research project, Jasmina visited Aalto University in Finland to collaborate with Prof. Jan Holmström specifically on the impact of additive manufacturing on the supply chain value mobile digital factory realize.

In addition, Jasmina has a wide experience in industry. For example, she wrote her master thesis in collaboration with the consumer goods manufacturer Beiersdorf and her bachelor thesis with the shipping owner Hamburg Süd. She also gained working experience with Daimler and Dräger as well as in the shipping industry during her apprenticeship as a shipping manager. Moreover, she spent time in Long Beach, US for an internship in the shipping industry and in Lichfield, UK for an internship at a logistics service provider.