Prof. Dr. Charlotte Köhler

Charlotte Köhler's research focusses on data-driven decision-making processes at the interface of operations research and business analytics. She develops models and methods to support planning in the field of home delivery and to improve and economically evaluate digital health applications. Her research is application-oriented and interdisciplinary and addresses challenges in logistics, e-commerce and digital medicine. She is co-founder of the research network co-minded, which focusses on digital health solutions for mental illness in a global context.

• Köhler, C., Campbell, A. M., & Ehmke, J. F. (2024). Data-driven customer acceptance for attended home delivery. OR Spectrum, 1-36. [link]
• Köhler, C., Bartschke, A., Fürstenau, D., Schaaf, T., & Salgado-Baez, E. (2024). The Value of Smartwatches in the Health Care Sector for Monitoring, Nudging, and Predicting: Viewpoint on 25 Years of Research. Journal of Medical Internet Research [link]
• Petropoulos, F., Laporte, G., Aktas, E., Alumur, S. A., Archetti, C., Ayhan, H., ... & Zhao, X. (2024). Operational Research: Methods and Applications. Journal of the Operational Research Society [link]
• Burian, M., Köhler, C., Ehmke, J.F., Campbell, A.M. (2024). Service Time Window Selection for Attended Home Deliveries – A Case Study for Urban and Rural Areas. European Journal of Transportation and Logistics. [link]
• Kuhn, E., Saleem, M., Klein, T., Köhler, C., Fuhr, D. C., Lahutina, S., ... & Böge, K. (2024). Interdisciplinary perspectives on digital technologies for global mental health. PLOS Global Public Health. [link]
• Köhler, C., Ehmke, J. F., Campbell, A. M., & Cleophas, C. (2023). Evaluating pricing strategies for premium delivery time windows. EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics, 100108. [link]
• Waßmuth, K., Köhler, C., Agatz, N., & Fleischmann, M. (2023). Demand management for attended home delivery–a literature review. European Journal of Operational Research. [link]
• Gerling, C., Meier, P., & Köhler, C. (2022). AI meets Digital: A Critical Review on Artificial Intelligence in Digital Entrepreneurship. [link]
• Köhler, C., Ehmke, J. F., & Campbell, A. M. (2020). Flexible time window management for attended home deliveries. Omega, 91, 102023. [link]
• Köhler, C., & Haferkamp, J. (2019). Evaluation of delivery cost approximation for attended home deliveries. Transportation Research Procedia, 37, 67-74. [link]

Charlotte Köhler (born 1991 in Hilden) has been Junior Professor of Business Administration, in particular Business Analytics, at the European University Viadrina since 2022. There she was a member of the 16th Senate and Chair of the Senate Commission for Digital Infrastructures (2023-2025). After completing her Bachelor's and Master's degree in Business Administration and Business Informatics at the Free University of Berlin (graduated in 2016), she worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Business Analytics at the Free University of Berlin, at the European University Viadrina and at the Chair of Management Science at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. In 2019, she completed a research stay at the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. In 2020, she received her doctorate from the Free University of Berlin. She then worked on a research project at Freie Universität Berlin. From 2021 to 2022 she worked in a digital start-up in Berlin. From 2023 to 2025, she worked part-time as a data scientist for a Berlin-based digital consultancy alongside her professorship. She is a member of the Steering Committee of GLOHRA (since 2022) and Communication Chair of the INFORMS Transportation Science & Logistics Society (since 2024).