Professor Wolfram Wiesemann takes over as Head of the Department of Analytics, Marketing & Operations

Professor Wolfram Wiesemann has been appointed to succeed Professor Andreas Eisingerich as Head of the Department of Analytics, Marketing & Operations 

Wolfram Wiesemann, Professor of Professor of Analytics & Operations at Imperial College Business School, will head up the Department of Analytics, Marketing & Operations from September.

Professor Wiesemann serves on the editorial board of several journals, including Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and Operations Research. He has also been the Academic Director of the School’s MSc Business Analytics (on-campus) programme and an Associate Director of Imperial’s Centre for Process Systems Engineering.  

His research interests include exploring how quantitative methods can assist prudent organisational decision-making in a world where choices are frequently based on uncertain or incomplete information, such as future customer demands, raw material prices or exchange rates. Many of his research projects are motivated by problems faced in operations management, energy systems and financial engineering, and they are frequently inspired by and carried out in collaboration with industrial partners.

He has received funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the UK Cabinet Office, Imperial Business Analytics, the Imperial College Research Fellowship scheme and various industrial collaborators.

His recent research on elective care prioritization in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic has been featured in the Daily Mail, Financial Times and on France24.

Professor Wiesemann obtained a Joint Masters Degree in Management and Computing at Darmstadt University of Technology followed by a PhD in Operations Research at Imperial. He has been a visiting researcher at several respected institutions, including the Institute of Statistics and Mathematics at Vienna University of Economics and Business, the Computer-Aided Systems Laboratory at Princeton University, and the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department at Columbia University.

Professor Eisingerich will continue in his role as Professor of Marketing at Imperial College Business School.