Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Stefan Spinler
Dr. Stefan Spinler (born 1970) received a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen. During his studies, he completed a thesis at University College London (UK) and a diploma thesis at the renowned Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ, U.S.A. He is a fellow of both the German Scholarship Foundation and the Bavarian Foundation for Gifted Students. In May 1997, he was awarded the diploma in Electrical Engineering. Subsequently, he joined Infineon Technologies, formerly Siemens Semiconductor, as a lead engineer in process integration.
From October 1999 to August 2002, Dr. Spinler was a doctoral student in the department of Production Management and taught at WHU and Leipzig Graduate School of Management (HHL). His research on options on capacity has been presented at international conferences and leading US Business Schools. Moreover, his research was awarded a number of prizes, most notably the Management Science Strategic Innovation Award (from EURO) as well as the GOR dissertation award.
Upon the completion of his doctoral studies, Dr. Spinler spent a year as a lecturer at the Wharton School, where he taught classes in the MBA and PhD programs and developed a real options class for executives. He continues teaching this latter class in Wharton's Executive Masters of Technology Management and will be teaching a similar class at MIT in the spring of 2006. In 2003, Dr. Spinler was made the acting chair in Production Management at HHL. He was awarded the best guest lecturer award twice at HHL. His habilitation covers aspects of market-based supply chain coordination.
