Prof. Alice Kirchheim becomes new institute director at Fraunhofer IML

Change at the top of the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML: As of April 1, Prof. Alice Kirchheim is taking over the Material Flow Sys-tems department at Fraunhofer IML, along with the Chair of Material Han-dling and Warehousing at TU Dortmund University. Kirchheim, a scientist with outstanding experience in automation in intralogistics, will also be a valuable addition to the institute in Dortmund thanks to her expertise relat-ing to the digital transformation and the use of AI in logistics. She is succeed-ing Prof. Michael ten Hompel, who is retiring after 24 years as the institute director at Fraunhofer IML and the holder of the same chair.

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