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Prof. Dr. Patrick Siegfried

Trier University of Applied Sciences
Food Technology
Schneidershof
54293 Trier
Germany
Phone: +49-651-8103-352
Fax: +49-651-8103-413
p.siegfried(at)hochschule-trier.de

CV: Patrick Siegfried

Prof Dr Patrick Siegfried studied Business Administration in Mannheim and Executive MBA at the University of Bradford/UK. He completed his doctorate in 2012 at the University of Economics in Wroclaw/PL with a PhD in "Strategic Controlling in Young SMEs" and in 2014 at the University of Agriculture in Kaposvár/HU with a PhD in "Service Engineering in SMEs". In 2023, he completed his habilitation/Dr. habil. at the Budapest University of Economics/HU with a defence on the topics of "Sustainable Supply Chain Management" and "Service Engineering - Digital Service Industry".

During his 20 years in the private sector from 1987-2008, he worked in the food retail sector as Sales Manager/REWE Leibbrand OHG and as Sales Manager Prokurist/LIDL GmbH & Co. KG. His knowledge of the food industry is rounded off by a position as managing director in food production at Desserts Salate Snacks GmbH and as commercial manager at top Logistik/WIV Wein International AG (Pieroth Wein GmbH). His experience in industry, wholesale/retail, with managerial activities and personnel/budget responsibility in the areas of purchasing, production, sales and logistics is incorporated into the lectures.

He also has 37 years of logistics experience as a reserve officer in the Bundeswehr, currently serving as a retired colonel and head of department at the Bundeswehr Logistics Command in Erfurt.

From 2012-2015, Patrick Siegfried was a Visiting Professor at the Offenburg and Mannheim universities in the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and from 2015-2022, he was Professor of International Management and Head of the Master International Business programme at the ISM International School of Management in Frankfurt. Since 2019, he has held a Guest Professorship for Entrepreneurship at the MATE Agricultural University Budapest/HU Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and was awarded the honorary title of University Professor/Prof. h.c. in 2024.

His scientific papers can be viewed via the following links:

SciPort RLP   Researchgate   ORCID

In October 2022, he took over the professorship "Food Economy, Digitalization and Sustainability in the Food Industry" at Trier University of Applied Sciences.

PROFESSOR SIEGFRIED TEACHES THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS

Bachelor:

• Business Administration
• Food industry

Master:

• Marketing
• Corporate Governance
• International commodity trading
• Production planning systems and logistics

The  following topics are his main areas of research and publication:

• Start-up Concepts
• Service Engineering
• Supply Chain Management
• Concepts of Digitization
• Sustainability
• Publication List

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Bachelor Food Technology (B. Eng.)

Master Food Economy (M. Eng.)

Fact Sheet Food Economy (M. Eng.)

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