Luqi Ke is a research associate and PhD student at the chair of Maritime Economics since March 2018. For her bachelor study, she majored in Logistics Management with a focus on International Shipping Management at Ningbo University in China and successfully completed the degree in 2015. From 2015 to 2017, she studied Logistics, Infrastructure and Mobility (M.Sc.) at the Hamburg University of Technology and she wrote her master thesis with the topic “A simulation analysis of ocean container freight rates using a system dynamics model”. During and shortly after her study, Luqi Ke has worked in a global freight forwarding company for 2 years.