Viola Rühlin

Personal profile

Position at the ZHAW

Research Assistant

www.zhaw.ch/de/engineering/institute-zentren/ine/

Expertise and research interests

Sustainable supply chain management, sustainable city logistics, life cycle assessment

Educational background

Master of Science in Sustainable Development, 2017-2019, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (Major) and Environmental Science (Minor), 2014-2017, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Professional milestones

Environmental management in the rail vehicle industry, 2019-2020
Research assistant in the field of sustainable resource use and material flow analysis (part-time during studies), 2018-2019
Research assistant in the field of material and energy resource use in Switzerland (part-time during studies), 2016-2017

Membership of networks

• Linkedin
• Euroma

Projects

• Smart UMH: Smart urban multihub concept: Sustainable and liveable cities with low logistics visibility / Team member / Project ongoing
• Wissenschaftliche Begleitung Paketboxen Zürich / Deputy project leader / Project ongoing
• Frigero - Towards energy autonomous temperature-controlled supply chains / Team member / Project ongoing
• Transformation der Textilindustrie von Push- zu Pull-Produktion durch Digitalisierung / Team member / Project ongoing
• Motivationssteigerung für die Nutzung von Paketboxen durch Gamification / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• Nachhaltigkeit im Handel: der Effekt von E-Commerce und stationärem Handel auf Nachhaltigkeit / Team member / Project completed

Publications

• Rühlin, Viola; Del Duce, Andrea; Scherrer, Maike,

  2023.

  The impact of spatial aspects on the supply chain and mobility demand of pharmaceutical products in e-commerce and brick-and-mortar shopping.

  Sustainability.

  15(14), pp. 11058.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/su151411058

• Doege, Patrick; Rühlin, Viola; Scherrer, Maike,

  2023.

  Digitalization-enabled supply chain redesign for more sustainability in the apparel industry [paper].

  In:

  10th International EurOMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains Forum, Hamburg, Germany, 20-23 March 2023.

• Rühlin, Viola; Scherrer, Maike,

  2023.

  Distribution of power as moderator between supply chain integration and environmental performance [paper].

  In:

  10th International EurOMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains Forum, Hamburg, Germany, 20-23 March 2023.

• Scherrer, Maike; Steiner, Albert; Rühlin, Viola,

  2022.

  Greening urban logistics : introducing a method to evaluate optimised decoupling hub locations [paper].

  In:

  9th Transport Research Arena (TRA), Lisbon, Portugal, 14-17 November 2022.

• Rühlin, Viola; Scherrer, Maike,

  2022.

  Towards net zero-emission logistics cold chains [paper].

  In:

  9th Transport Research Arena (TRA), Lisbon, Portugal, 14-17 November 2022.

• Rühlin, Viola; Scherrer, Maike,

  2022.

  Identifying environmental improvement potentials in temperature-controlled supply chains through advanced value stream mapping : a case study in the vegetables and fruits industry [paper].

  In:

  29th International Annual EurOMA Conference, Berlin, Germany, 1-6 July 2022.

• Rühlin, Viola; Del Duce, Andrea; Scherrer, Maike,

  2022.

  Assessment of environmental impacts of online and physical retail channels in medicine trades [paper].

  In:

  9th EurOMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains Forum, Zagreb, Croatia, 21-22 March 2022.

• Doege, Patrick; Rühlin, Viola; Scherrer, Maike,

  2022.

  Beyond the carbon footprint : a holistic sustainability assessment of trade across online and offline retail channels [paper].

  In:

  9th EurOMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains Forum, Zagreb, Croatia, 21-22 March 2022.

• Scherrer, Maike; Steiner, Albert; Rühlin, Viola,

  2022.

  Decoupling hubs for sustainable urban logistics : introducing a method to define optimal locations [paper].

  In:

  6th World Conference on Production and Operations Management (P&OM), online, 23-25 August 2022.

• Scherrer, Maike; Rühlin, Viola,

  2021.

  Design principles for energy autonomous logistics cold chains [paper].

  In:

  8th EurOMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Forum, online, 22-23 March 2021.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

Moretti, C., Corona, B., Rühlin, V., Götz, T., Junginger, M., Brunner, T., ... & Shen, L. (2020). Combining biomass gasification and solid oxid fuel cell for heat and power generation: An early-stage life cycle assessment. Energies, 13(11), 2773.

Other publications

Scherrer, M., Rühlin, V. 2021. Design principles for energy autonomous logistics cold chains. 8th EurOMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains Forum, La Rochelle, France.

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