Zäzilia Seibold is a University Professor of KIT for “Intelligent Technical Logistics Systems“ at the Institute for Material Handling and Logistics (Bereich III). After completing her Franco-German double degree in Mechanical Engineering, she earned her doctorate at KIT in 2016 in the field of modular, decentralized material handling systems. Over the following nine years at Robert Bosch GmbH, she took on various leadership roles – ranging from the strategic development of company-wide logistics concepts to operational responsibility in plant logistics and the coordination of intralogistics process experts worldwide. She aims to build on this industry experience to further develop material handling and logistics as integrated, data-driven, and adaptive systems. Future logistics systems should be enabled to not only capture their environment, but also to understand structural relationships by linking available information with local intelligence and to derive actions autonomously.
What she is particularly looking forward to at KIT: Working together with colleagues, staff, and students to create new impulses at the interface between scientific research and industrial application.
Philipp Staudt is a Junior Professor of KIT and Head of the Research Group „Information Systems II – Digital Energy“ at the Institute for Information Systems (Bereich II). He studied Industrial Engineering and Business Mathematics at KIT, where he also completed his PhD in Information Systems, focusing on the digitalization of energy systems. He subsequently led the Smart Grids & Energy Markets research group at KIT and conducted research as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2022 to 2026, he was Junior Professor of Information Systems at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. His research focuses on the digitalization of energy systems and its impact on markets and individuals, as well as the sustainable digitalization of organizations.
What he finds particularly exciting at KIT: The combination of technical expertise and economic scholarship at the Institute for Information Systems and the KIT Faculty of Economics and Business Engineering – and the dedicated students and doctoral researchers in Information Systems (and beyond).
