I have 21 years of academic research, teaching, supervision, mentoring and project management experience at Tallinn University of Technology. After PhD graduation (in 2008), I continued as a Post Doc in the Georgia Institute of Technology (GA, USA) supported by a Fulbright grant. Thereafter I started a research group in collaboration with Georgia Tech, research center UNIDEMI (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and Tallinn University of Technology. The primary focus of the research group was the project "Enhancing Sustainability of Manufacturing Enterprises through reliability engineering”. The goals and funding of the project enabled us to also collaborate with the University of Linköping and several local and international companies (Ericsson, Norma, Densel Baltic) that resulted in joint publications, internships and further research projects.

Later on, I initiated and managed several applied research projects in cooperation with the Mektory organisation for local and international companies and our research team was lucky enough to receive a special award “Applied research work 2013 in collaboration with Tallinn University of Technology and Ericsson”. It followed by Industrial Post Doc in Ericsson Ltd. on the topic of modelling manufacturing business process and measuring the direct product cost in each sub-process of the manufacturing cycle.  

It followed by obtaining the funding for the research project “Collaboration enhancing sustainable conceptual model development and implementation for the SME-s”. In parallel, I designed and developed several national and international courses and focused more resources on pedagogical experience.

In 2015 I accepted the position of Associate Professor and started giving courses in the Department of Logistics. 

Starting from 2016 I have been working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering.  Currently I am teaching seven courses at the School of Engineering, one course at the School of Business and Governance and two courses at the School of Software science and supervising PhD Student. The scientific results were published in international journals, conference proceedings and books. 

Starting from 2020 I joined as Professor TTK UAS and formed the Digital Supply Chain research group.

Starting from 2021 I joined as Associate Professor at University of Tartu.

My primary research field is mainly connected to business operations, lifecycle methodology (modelling and simulating), metrics (efficiency and effectiveness), configuration and management (risk, maintenance and improvement, integration). Particular areas of interest are related to the Collaborative enterprises, Virtual Organisations and implementation of applied science solution ( ICT, Blockchain, digitalisation and visualisation of manufacturing and business processes). 

The number of my publications reaches more than 80 articles. I have supervised 72 MSc and 3 PhD students,  who have successfully defended their degrees. 

Research projects:

Project manager:

• Project I2020-1-EE01-KA203-077939; Digital Skill for future Supply Chain Management 4.0, period 01.12.2020-31.08.2023; budget 135 484 EUR (ERASMUS +)

• Project 4-14/762 Tallinna Toiduveod business Process mapping and customer journey analysis ; period 01.08.2023-31.12.2023; budget 7020 EUR (Tallinna Toiduveod)

• Project LLTAT23344. Participation in the public procurement commitee for Omniva route planning software; period 12.06.23-30.09.2023; budget 4996 EUR (Omniva).

• Project 4-14/336 eCMR process mapping in the framework of a project "developing a model for application of e-waybills; period 22.04.2021-21.06.2021. (Digilogistika keskus OÜ).

• Project ETF9460; period 01.01.2012-31.12.2014; budget 43 200 EUR (ETAG)

• Project VERT17065; period 01.09.2016-01.02.2019; budget 38 488 EUR (ERASMUS +)

• Project B41; period 01.07.2014-01.07.2017; budget 110 000 EUR (Base financing source)

• Project 4-14/762  Tallinna Toiduveod business Process mapping and customer journey analysis 

SubTotal: 342 h EUR

Participation in international research projects:

• Project VIR16048; period 01.09.2018-31.08.2019; budget 234 000 EUR (INTEREG); role - Blockchain Business Process Designer

• Project S376 BPM project (TalTechDigital ); period 02. 2018 31.10.21 budget 96 721 EUR; role - Business process Expert

Total: 657 646 EUR

Applied Research projects:

Project manager:

• Project Lep13052; period 31.01.2013-21.06.2013; budget 49 300 EUR

• Project Lep14040; period 31.01.2014-26.06.2014; budget 28 865 EUR

• Project LEP14042; period 1.01.2014-21.06.2014; budget 26 795 EUR

• Project Lep16064; period 19.05.2016-17.06.2016; budget 4 972 EUR 

• Project Lep16059; period 25.03.2016-17.06.2016; budget 20 000 EUR

• Project SS 451; period 22.08.2018-22.09.2018; budget 3 936 EUR 

• Project 4-14/336 ; period 24.04.2021-21.06.2021; budget 2 280 EUR 

• Projects MLTTI22347 - AIRE projects with Tiksoja Puidugrupp AS (01.03-15.12.2023); budget 120000 EUR

• Project LLTAT23344- Participation in the public procurement committee for Omniva route planning software (12.06.2023−30.09.2023); budget 4 996

• Project 4-14/762  - Tallinna Toiduveod business processes mapping and customer journey analysis (01.08.2023−31.12.2023); budget 7020 EUR

Total 268 164 EUR