In his research, Fontaine focuses in particular on the development of solution methods for problems in the areas of mobility, supply chain management, production and logistics. He and his team are currently working on increasing resilience in the supply chain with the help of machine learning, improving dial-a-bus systems and planning urban logistics concepts, among other things.
Two other WFI professors made it to successful places in the "Scientific Lifetime Achievement" category: Prof. Dr. Heinrich Kuhn, holder of the Chair of Supply Chain Management and Operations, is ranked 100th among economists from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Kuhn's work focuses on issues relating to the design and operation of production and logistics systems, most recently researching the optimization of store logistics in the retail sector. Prof. Dr. Thomas Mählmann, holder of the Chair of Finance and Banking, was ranked 228th. His research interests include risk management in banks, the regulation of financial institutions and applied econometrics.
Both Mählmann and Kuhn as well as Fontaine were able to build on successful placings in previous years with this result. The data source is the bibliometric web portal "Forschungsmonitoring", which is operated by the Economic Research Institute KOF at the ETH Zurich. The current ranking refers to publications in business journals from 2020 to 2024 inclusive; the lifetime achievement rating takes into account all articles ever published. For the evaluation, the journals were weighted according to their reputation. Data from 413 scientists were included in the evaluation in the U-40 category, and data from 4958 scientists in the lifetime achievement category.