Ernst Johannes Prosman
Core Faculty | Junior Assistant Professor
Ernst Johannes (Ernst-Jan) Prosman has a double Msc degree in Supply Chain Management and Operations Management from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). After a year of working in the United Kingdom, he pursued a PhD at Aalborg University (Denmark) where he did research on optimizing the supply chain and operations processes of industrial symbiosis. During this research, he worked at an international cement manufacturer to implement the research findings. Ernst-Jan has been a visiting researcher at Cambridge University at the Institute for Manufacturing. Since joining Politecnico di Milano, Ernst-Jan’s research focuses on sustainable, data-driven, collaborative and circular busi ...
Education
PHD: Supply Chain Capabilities for Industrial Symbiosis in the Process Industry, Aalborg University (Denmark).
Master of Science: Supply Chain Management, University of Groningen (The Netherlands). Operations Research and Operations Management, University of Groningen (The Netherlands).
Current research lines are basd upon two Horizon2020 projects namely 1) Ploutos: rebalancing the agri-food value chain by means of collaborative sustainable business models, data-driven innovations and behaviour innovation and 2) Food Trails: developing sustainable food policies for cities. Besides this, I focus on circular economy in the the agri-food sector and the role of start-ups.
