Rudolf Schmidt-Burkhardt Memorial Prize for best Doctor-Thesis of the department Mechanical Engineering, TUM Department for Mechanical Engineering, TUM (2003)
Johannes Fottner (b. 1971) studied mechanical engineering at TUM and received his Ph.D. at the same university in the field of materials handling, material flow, and logistics. From 2002 to 2008, he held a number of managerial positions at the Swisslog Group. In 2008, he took over as managing director of the MIAS Group. Fottner holds the Bavarian state chair and deputy national chair of the Society for Production and Logistics at the Association of German Engineers (VDI). In 2016, he was appointed professor of logistics engineering at TUM.