Lara Pomaska joined the Kühne Logistics University as a PhD candidate under the primary supervision of Prof. Dr. Gordon Wilmsmeier in November 2022. Her research focuses on the decarbonization of the maritime industry. Before joining the PhD program, she worked as a research fellow at the Hapag-Lloyd Center for Shipping and Global Logistics (CSGL) at KLU, where she was involved in the Wind Assisted Ship Propulsion (WASP) project.
Lara received her M.Sc. in Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management from KLU in 2020. In her thesis, she built a capital budgeting model to assess the economic feasibility of the use of hydrogen as an alternative fuel in shipping. In 2018, Lara completed her B.A. in Business Administration with a specialization in supply chain management and logistics at Flensburg University of Applied Sciences. During her studies, she spent semesters abroad in Carlow, Ireland at the Institute of Technology and in Gothenburg, Sweden at Chalmers University of Technology.

In addition to her studies, Lara worked at Hapag-Lloyd and gained multiple practical experiences in the field of logistics and supply chain management during internships in the shipping and automotive industry.