Katja Windt

Katja Windt is a researcher and professor of global production logistics and president of Jacobs University Bremen.

Windt received her doctorate in 2000 from the Institut für Fabrikanlagen und Logistik IFA (Institute of Production Systems and Logistics). During her studies she attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, for one semester.

Windt held a position as departmental manager at the Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik BIBA, (Bremen Institute for Production and Logistics) of the University of Bremen, where she worked in the field of autonomous cooperating logistic processes funded by the German Research Foundation.

On the staff of Jacobs University since 2008, Windt founded the university's Global Production Logistics Workgroup. In 2008 she won the Alfried Krupp Prize, a grant for young lecturers. She was named "Professor of the year 2008" by the German Association of University Professors and Lecturers.

In 2012, Windt was appointed as provost and vice-president of Jacobs University. In 2014 she became president of the same institution, and has been overseeing a financial restructuring of the institution.

Windt was a member and later a spokesperson of the Young Academy, a joint project of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina. Most recently she became member of the executive board of the German Logistics Association (BVL).

Windt is married and has three children.