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Below you will find a list of potential topics for final theses. These topics are provided by way of example and may also serve as a starting point for developing your own research questions. Should you have your own ideas that differ from those listed, we would be happy to discuss them with you. Please contact Dr Fabian Lindner directly in this regard.

In addition to general topics in the fields of process, production, logistics and supply chain management, which you will develop together with your industry partner, Dr Lindner supervises empirical thesis topics at Bachelor’s and Master’s level in German and English, particularly in the following fields (literature reviews are only possible in exceptional cases):

• Practical teaching/learning scenarios relating to Industry 4.0/5.0 (an affinity for programming is helpful) and supply chain management
• Behavioural economics experiments/designs in operations management (e.g. nudging, cognitive biases, human-AI interaction)
• Visualisations and information representations for decision-making in operations management (decision support systems) and on the shop floor (e.g., AR/VR)
• Modelling and simulation of management decisions in socio-technical systems
• Digital transformation in organisations and human factors/well-being

In addition, the following thesis topics are being supervised in collaboration with industry partners:

• Design of a tool for the technical and economic assessment of logistics trends for SMEs(in German) – internship with subsequent thesis project at LOGSOL GmbH, Dresden