Dr. Lukas Messmann studied Industrial Engineering at the University of Augsburg between 2011 and 2017. Since April 2017, he has been a research & teaching associate at the Chair of Production & Supply Chain Management and the interdisciplinary research group “Resource Lab” at the Center for Climate Resilience. He successfully defended his dissertation with the title “Strategic Design of Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Supply Networks“ (summa cum laude) in June 2022, which was awarded the „Jacqueline Bloemhof PhD Thesis Award on Sustainable Supply Chains“ in 2023.

His research focuses on sustainable and resilient supply chains, combining methods of Industrial Ecology (esp. environmental and social Life Cycle Assessment) with methods from Operations Research (esp. multi-criteria optimization). His fields of research include, among others, sustainable hospitals, agri-food and bioeconomic value chains, and closed-loop supply chains for WEEE.

In academic teaching, he is or was involved in the lectures “Sustainable Operations”, “Industrial Ecology”, “Resource Efficiency & Resilience”, and “Introduction to Business Administration”, as well as the SAP certification course TS410. He is also responsible for the logistics seminars with IBM ILOG CPLEX.

From October to December 2023 and from April to July 2024, he was a guest researcher at the University of Tokyo and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), respectively.

In January 2025, he assumed responsibility for the university’s climate management at the Green Office.

Awards:

• Jacqueline Bloemhof PhD Thesis Award on Sustainable Supply Chains, awarded 2023 by the EURO Working Group on Sustainable Supply Chains
• Certificate for Teaching in Higher Education of the Bavarian Universities
• SAP Certified Associate – Business Process Integration with SAP ERP 6.0 EhP6

Talks:

• Teah, H.-Y.; Messmann, L.; Amasawa, E.; Taniguchi, N.; Kikuchi, Y.: Screening Social Hotspots of Energy Storage Systems for Application in Japan. 4th Life Cycle Innovation Conference (LCIC 2024), Berlin, Germany, 2024.
• Schlembach, R.; Messmann, L.; Brunner, J.O.; Schiffels, S.; Tuma, A.: Environmental and operational optimization of Central Sterile Supply Departments in Danish and German hospitals. 33rd European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2024), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2024.
• Messmann, L.; Köhler, S.; Cimprich, A.; Young, S.; Assies, F., Linné, R.; Thorenz, A.; Tuma, A.: Organizational LCA of a maximum care university hospital in Germany. Healthcare LCA Symposium, RIVM, Bilthoven, Netherlands, 2024 (online participation)
• Schmid, C.; Messmann, L.; Michalke, A.; Wieck, C.; Feuerbacher, A.: Internalizing the environmental costs of food products: Effects on price-demand equilibria and environmental impacts. 11th International Conference on Life Cycle Management (LCM 2023), Lille, France, 2023.
• Antimisaris, K.; Fieber, R.; Messmann, L.; Köhler, S.; Thorenz, A.; Tuma, A.: Hospital sustainability indicators and actions. Joint 5th SCORAI, 21st ERSCP, and Wageningen University conference (SCORAI-ERSCP-WUR 2023), Wageningen, Netherlands, 2023.
• Schmid, C.; Messmann, L.; Michalke, A.; Wieck, C.; Feuerbacher, A.: Internalizing the environmental costs of food products: Effects on price-demand equilibria and environmental impacts. Joint 5th SCORAI, 21st ERSCP, and Wageningen University conference (SCORAI-ERSCP-WUR 2023), Wageningen, Netherlands, 2023.
• Schmid, C.; Messmann, L.; Michalke, A.; Wieck, C.; Feuerbacher, A.: Internalizing the environmental costs of food products: Effects on price-demand equilibria and environmental impacts. 11th International Conference on Industrial Ecology (ISIE 2023), Leiden, Netherlands, 2023.
• Messmann, L.: Strategic Design of Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Supply Networks. Presentation in the award session for the 2023 Jacqueline Bloemhof PhD Thesis Award on Sustainable Supply Chains at the 4th Conference on Sustainable Supply Chains (SustSC 2023), Hagen, Germany, 2023.
• Bruckler, M.; Wietschel, L.; Messmann, L.; Thorenz, A.; Tuma, A.: Review of metrics to assess resilience capacities and actions for supply chain resilience. 4th Conference on Sustainable Supply Chains (SustSC 2023), Hagen, Germany, 2023.
• Messmann, L.; Wietschel, L.; Thorenz, A.; Tuma, A.: Assessing the Social Dimension in Strategic Network Design: The Case of Bioethanol Production in the EU. 15th Biennial International Conference on EcoBalance (EcoBalance 2022), Fukuoka, Japan, 2022 (online participation).
• Messmann, L.; Wietschel, L.; Thorenz, A.; Tuma, A.: Assessing the Social Dimension in Strategic Network Design: The Case of Bioethanol Production in the EU. 8th International Conference of Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA 2022), Aachen, Germany, 2022.
• Messmann, L.; Wietschel, L.; Thorenz, A.; Tuma, A.: Assessing the Social Dimension in Strategic Network Design: The Case of Bioethanol Production in the EU. 32nd European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2022), Espoo, Finland, 2022.
• Messmann, L.; Wietschel, L.; Thorenz, A.; Tuma, A.: Assessing the Social Dimension in Strategic Network Design: The Case of Bioethanol Production in the EU. 3rd Life Cycle Innovation Conference (LCIC 2022), Berlin, Germany, 2022.
• Wietschel, L.; Messmann, L.; Thorenz, A.; Tuma, A.: Environmental benefits of large-scale second-generation bioethanol production in the EU: An integrated supply network optimization and Life Cycle Assessment approach. Graduate Program in Operations Management (GPOM), 2020 (online event).
• Messmann, L.; Wietschel, L.; Thorenz, A.; Tuma, A.: Social objective functions in optimization models for sustainable supply network design. 7th International Conference on Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA 2020), Gothenburg, Sweden, 2020 (online event).
• Messmann, L.; Zender, V.; Thorenz, A.; Tuma, A.: Quantifying Social Sustainability in OR Models for Supply Network Design. 10th International Conference on Industrial Ecology (ISIE 2019), Beijing, People’s Republic of China, 2019.
• Messmann, L.; Zender, V.; Thorenz, A.; Tuma, A.: Quantifying Social Sustainability in OR Models for Supply Network Design. 30th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2019), Dublin, Ireland, 2019.
• Messmann, L.; Helbig, C.; Thorenz, A.; Tuma, A.: Economic and environmental opportunity costs of regional development in WEEE reverse network design. 13th Biennial International Conference on EcoBalance, Tokyo, Japan, 2018.
• Messmann, L.; Thorenz, A.; Tuma, A.: Integrating environmental parameters into Reverse Network Design: European collection and recovery network for WEEE. OR im Umweltschutz, Ulm, Germany, 2018.
• Messmann, L.; Hutner, P.; Stindt, D.; Thorenz, A.; Tuma, A.: Evaluation of economic and environmental aspects in a European WEEE recovery network: an LCA-based approach. 18th European Roundtable for Sustainable Consumption and Production (ERSCP 2017), Skiathos, Greece, 2017.
• Hutner, P.; Dirr, M.; Messmann, L.; Boldoczki, S.; Thorenz, A.; Tuma, A.: Preparing for Re-Use: Assessment and quantification of potentials for WEEE, textiles and bulky waste. 18th European Roundtable for Sustainable Consumption and Production (ERSCP 2017), Skiathos, Greece, 2017.