Oehmen, Josef
LAI Research Scientist
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Dr. Josef Oehmen's main research interest is in risk management in the value chain, with a special focus on lean product development. Risk management allows companies to design and achieve the optimal risk-return balance in their portfolio of activities, successfully take entrepreneurial risks, increase their performance, and focus their attention where it is needed most.
Josef is also involved in a collaborative project between the King Fahd University in Saudi Arabia and MIT; the project is focused on product development and risk management research. He is a member of the supervisory board of Climate InterChange, a company developing and implementing projects for the reduction of carbon emission. Before joining LAI, he was the Director for Supply Chain Management at the ETH Center for Enterprise Sciences (BWI) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich).
He wrote his PhD thesis at ETH Zurich on supply chain risk management with a focus on China. In his research, he investigated and optimized the integration and cooperation between Swiss companies and their Chinese suppliers.
Josef worked as Assistant to the CTO of SIG Holding AG and in parallel pursued an international MBA at the Collège des Ingénieurs in Paris. He was intensely involved in corporate-wide technology and innovation management and was responsible for technology projects. He studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich, majoring in Product Development and Production Management. He wrote his diploma thesis at LAI on Risk Management in Product Development.
Josef’s homepage at MIT, including his list of publications, can be found at http://oehmen.mit.edu.
You can connect with Josef on LinkedIn, XING, Twitter and his private homepage http://www.josef-oehmen.com/.
If you are looking for background information on Josef’s Fukushima-email that he send to his family in Japan and that then later went viral, read the articles in New Scientist and the MIT newspaper The Tech.
