Julia Schleier
Office: 160
Kackertstr. 7
52072 Aachen
Office Hours
By appointment, registration via e-mail.
Research Focus
- Sustainable Supply Chains
- Circular Economy
- Chemical Recycling of Plastics
Projects
- SCI4climate.NRW
Funding: Ministry of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalization and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia - Catalaix – Catalysis for a Circular Economy
Funding: Werner Siemens-Stiftung
Teaching
| ST 2024 | Project Module: Operations Management |
| WT 2022/23 | Production and Logistics |
| WT 2021/22 | Production and Logistics |
| WT 2020/21 | Production and Logistics |
| WT 2019/20 | Production and Logistics |
| WT 2019/20 | Project Module: Sustainable Operations |
| WT/ST | Mentoring of students in the context of scientific theses |
Supervised theses
| Type | Title | |
|---|---|---|
| BT | Implementation of a flow oriented manufacturing line for mist eliminators in a conventional job shop environment for the joint venture of RPT GmbH and Evergreen Technologies | |
| BT | Plastics in the Automotive Industry – An analysis of the capability of innovative measures in a circular economy to close material cycles in Germany | |
| BT | Environmental Assessment of Alternative Recycling Options for EPS from External Thermal Insulation Composite Systems | |
| BT | Ecological assessment of alternativ recycling paths for EPS-based thermal insulation composite systems | |
| MT | Development and Implementation of a Job Scheduling System to Optimize Production Planning in a Research-Related Environment | |
| MT | Integrative ecological and economic evaluation of selected chemical recycling processes for plastic waste | |
| MT | Modelling and analysis of the economic viability of agrivoltaic concepts concerning the use case Germany | |
| MT | Multi-criteria Optimization of a Reverse Logistics System for EPS from ETICS | |
| MT | Potenzialanalyse einer zirkularen Wertschöpfungskette für den Grundstoff Zement in der Bauindustrie in Nordrhein-Westfalen | |
| MT | Socioeconomic and environmental assessment of sustainable plastic waste management based on a Cambodian case study | |
| MT | Techno-economic analysis of chemical recycling of mattresses – opportunities and challenges for Germany’s circular economy | |
| MT | Voraussetzungen für die Implementierung einer Circular Economy – Eine Anforderungsanalyse im Kontext der Automobilindustrie |
Publications
Refereed journals
Schleier, J.; Walther, G. (2024): Strategic Network Design for Recycling of EPS Insulation Material - Insights from a German Case Study In: International Journal of Production Research, Pages 5878-5904. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2024.2302041
Merchan, A.L.; Fischöder, T.; Hee, J.; Lehnertz, M.; Osterthun, O.; Pielsticker, S.; Schleier, J.; Tiso, T.; Blank, L.; Klankermeyer, J.; Kneer, R.; Quicker, P.; Walther, G.; Palkovits, R. (2022): Chemical recycling of bioplastics: technical opportunities to preserve chemical functionality as path towards a circular economy In: Green Chemistry, Volume 24, Issue 24, Pages 9428-9449. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D2GC02244C
Schleier, J.; Simons, M.; Greiff, K.; Walther, G. (2022): End-of-Life treatment of EPS-based building insulation material - An estimation of future waste and review of treatment options In: Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Volume 187, Pages 106603. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2022.106603
Talks (selection)Schleier, J.; Walther, G. (2024): Robust reverse logistics network design for polystyrene-based building insulation under uncertainty. Annual conference of the Society for Operations Research in Germany (GOR e.V.), 03. September - 06. September 2024, München, talk on 05. September 2024
Schleier, J.; Walther, G. (2023): Designing reverse logistic networks for expanded polystyrene waste from building insulation. Annual conference of the Society for Operations Research in Germany (GOR e.V.), 29. August - 01. September 2023, Hamburg, talk on 01. September 2023
Schleier, J.; Simons, M.; Greiff, K.; Walther, G. (2021): Economic Optimization and Analysis of Reverse Logistics Systems for EPS from ETICS. 3rd Conference on Sustainable Supply Chains, 22. July - 23. July 2021, Virtual