Dr. Pietro Evangelista has won the James Cooper Memorial Cup for the best PhD on a logistics/SCM topic in the UK/Ireland, awarded by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT), UK. His Doctoral research was carried out at NITL and the Logistics Research Centre (LRC) at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh under the supervision of Edward Sweeney and Prof. Alan McKinnon.

The prize, in memory of Professor James Cooper, was inaugurated in 2000. It is awarded annually to students at UK or Republic of Ireland universities for research that makes an original contribution to the field and is directly relevant to the management of the end-to-end supply chain.

Pietro was awarded the prize for his thesis titled: “Dissemination of information and communication technology in supply chain management: the impact on small and medium sized transport and logistics service providers”. He will be presented with a cash prize of £500 and the Memorial Cup at the annual Logistics Research Network (LRN) conference in September.

More information about Dr Evangelista can be found at his website:

http://www.sml.hw.ac.uk/logistics/staff/pevangelista.html