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Dr. Luca Urciuoli
Biography
Adjunct Professor of Supply Chain Management
Dr. Luca Urciuoli is Adjunct Professor of Supply Chain Management at the MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program.
He is also Associate Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Industrial Economics and Management (Stockholm, Sweden) and Research Affiliate at MIT CTL. He has a MSc degree in Industrial Engineering, from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, and a PhD from the Engineering University of Lund.
In the past, he has been working at the research unit of the Volvo group as a project manager developing telematics services in the areas of transport and logistics optimization, security, and uptime management and diagnostics. He also led the research of the Cross-border Research Association in Switzerland and collaborated in several consultancy and FP7 research projects. His research and teaching focus on topics like e-Customs, trade facilitation, supply chain security, waste and postal supply chains, risk and resilience, network design, biomass supply chains and digital supply chains.
Dr. Urciuoli's publications have appeared in several prestigious peer-reviewed journals, some of them including Supply Chain Management: an International Journal, Government Information Quarterly, Transportation Research Part E: Policy and Practice, International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics, International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management, International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications etc. He has a patent granted in the US (US8296059B2) related to telematics devices, method and applications to improve security in overland transport. Over the years his research has been awarded in Sweden (ICHCA) and Germany (DB Schenker best five PhDs award in Europe), and has received sponsorship from private organizations as well as governmental institutions, both on a national and a European level.
Dr. Urciuoli has participated to ALICE activities in Europe related to the development and establishment of the Physical Internet initiative, as vice chair of working group for transport sustainability, safety and security. In addition, he has been an invited speaker to several conferences and roundtables organized by international organizations like the World Customs Organization, the World Bank Group, OSCE-UNECE, European Shippers Council, PostEurop etc.
Research Areas
Resilience, SC Security & Risk Management
The Research Group on Resilience, SC Security & Risk Management tackles the challenging question of how to achieve efficient and secure supply chains.
Projects
Safe, ClimAte Resilient Infrastructure
SAFARI’s project aims to develop a generic digital platform for resilient port infrastructure, connected to large port communities, facing extreme weather events, with emergency management modules fed by operational, maintenance and analytical modules. The implementation of the SAFARI project will allow to: Maintain the port operation at 80% of capacity during the disruption periods; Optimize […]
SecureFood adopts an integrated, systems-thinking approach that acknowledges and embraces the complexity of food systems, addressing them as an interconnected network of actors, elements, activities, processes, infrastructures, and essential services related to the production and delivery of food. Based on this approach, it brings together, as consortium partners, multiple actors of the food supply chain […]
The main goal of AGROinLOG is the demonstration of Integrated Biomass Logistic Centres (IBLC) for food and non-food products, evaluating their technical, environmental and economic feasibility. The project is based on three agro-industries in the fodder (Spain), olive oil production (Greece) and cereal processing (Sweden) sectors that are willing to deploy new business lines in […]
Consistently Optimised Resilient Secure Global Supply-Chains
CORE presented at Intermodal Europe 2014 – Press release Newsletter CORE Newsletter - Dic 2014 CORE Newsletter - Aug 2015 Project Description CORE will demonstrate how a powerful and innovative Consistently Optimised REsilient ecosystem implementation, integrating interoperability, security, resilience and real-time optimisation can produce cost effective, fast and robust solutions that will guarantee the efficient […]
Re use and development of Security Knowledge assets for International Postal Supply Chains
Project Description SAFEPOST aims to raise the current level of postal security by integrating innovative screening solutions suitable for an uninterrupted flow of the enormous volume of parcels and letters, with operational postal processes and criminal and customs intelligence work, in a European wide cooperative, distributed model. Starting from the perspective of partner postal operations, […]
Papers
Managerial Publications
Beyond risk management – protecting critical freight infrastructures
By Dr. Mustafa Çagri Gürbüz and Dr. Luca Urciuoli
Every port in a storm
By Dr. Alicia Martinez de Yuso and Dr. Luca Urciuoli
The free buffet is over – Europe focuses on food chain resilience
By Dr. Luca Urciuoli and Dr. Teresa de la Cruz
Can digital ecosystems calm troubled waters?
By Dr. Luca Urciuoli
No bricks without straw – new value chains for crop wastes
By Dr. Luca Urciuoli
Effective trade data – from pipedream to pipeline
By Dr. Luca Urciuoli
Biomass Business Study Uses Logistics as a Measure of Commercial Success
By Dr. Luca Urciuoli
ZLC Report Paves the Way for TIR Transportation in the Black Sea Area
By Dr. Mustafa Çägri Gürbüz, Dr. Milos Milenkovic, Dr. Luca Urciuoli and Dr. Susana Val
Constructing a Shared Space for Pan-European Logistics Collaboration
By Dr. Luca Urciuoli
Automating Supply Chain Resilience Should Be High on Your Digital Agenda
By Dr. Luca Urciuoli
