Aseem Kinra is the Professor for Supply Chain Systems Transitions at Heriot-Watt University. Aseem joined Heriot-Watt from the University of Bremen in Germany where he held the chaired professorship in Global Supply Chain Management and led the International Graduate School (IGS) of Log Dynamics, the Bremen Research Cluster on Logistics. He has previously also worked as a tenured Associate Professor at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark.

Alma mater https://www.linkedin.com/in/aseem-kinra-05835556/?originalSubdomain=uk 

Professional affiliations

• WCTRS – World Conference of Transport Research Society [full member of both the Scientific and Steering committees; Chair, SIG B1 on Supply Chain Management] https://wctrs-society.com
• EurOMA – European Operations Management Association https://www.euroma-online.org
• IFAC TC 5.2. - Management and Control in Manufacturing and Logistics https://tc.ifac-control.org/5/2
• Decision Sciences Institute (DS) https://decisionsciences.org
• LogDynamics, Bremen research cluster for dynamics in Logistics http://logdynamics.de/logdynamics.html?&L=1    

Aseem is an experienced scholar of global supply chains with a focus on complexity, barriers and value in cross- border value chains, especially in relation to logistics and transportation systems.

Aseem’s research is highly interdisciplinary and at Heriot-Watt he works within a group of interdisciplinary scholars ramping up the systems transition lab. Amongst others, his current work within supply chain transitions examines the relationship between (renewable) energy , global supply chains, transportation, logistics and mobility that impacts climate change. The focus is on the development of easy-to-use systems transition approaches for operations planning and decision analysis tasks to counter unsustainable, non-resilient business operations and supply chain behaviors, and practices.

Open calls for research

Guest Issue: “Powering the supply chain: unpacking the role of energy for supply chain management”, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Emerald Publishing https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/powering-supply-chain-unpacking-role-energy-supply-chain-management

Guest Issue: “Theorizing Digital Twins in Operations and Supply Chain Management”, International Journal of Production Economics (IJPE), Elsevier https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/10X2H650625

Open call for papers: Sustainable Transport and Livability Journal, Taylor & Francis https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tstl20

- Horizon EU, ResC4EU Resilient Supply Chains For http://www.resc4eu.comResC4EU/    2024-2027

- EPSRC, 'LIFECHAIN: imagining alternative transport & logistics modes, modalities, and organisational forms under extreme disruptions for sustainable island ecosystems', EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award DLA 2025 – 2029 Strategic Areas Studentship (Workstream 2)

- Innovate UK UKRI, RELIQ, 2026

Current PhD students

• Flóra Gulyás
• Joseph Matemilola
• Maddie Dowek
• M. Abubakar
• A. Dar