On Tuesday 28 January 2025, Somayeh Torkaman will defend her PhD thesis Product Exploration and Exchange in Omni-channel Retail. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr. Tom Van Woensel, dr....
On Friday 22 November 2024, Ragnar Eggertsson will defend his PhD thesis Advances in Asset Management: Maintenance Optimization under Incomplete Information and Sustainable Technology Selection. This thesis has been supervised...
On Thursday 21 November 2024, Lotte van Hezewijk will defend her PhD thesis Deep Reinforcement Learning For Production and Inventory Management. This thesis has been supervised by dr.ir. Nico Dellaert...
On Wednesday, November 6, 2024, Thibault Delbart will defend his PhD thesis, Capacity planning under uncertainty in synchro modal transport. This thesis has been supervised by prof. dr. An Caris...
You can find the Graduate Program Operations Management and Logistics (GP-OML) course program for the fall of 2024-2025 over here.
On Friday, September 13, 2024, Robert van Steenbergen will defend his PhD thesis Evaluation and Coordination of UAVs in Humanitarian Logistics. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr.ir. Martijn Mes...
On Thursday, 5 September 2024, Bram De Moor will defend his PhD thesis Smart Inventory Control for Sustainable Logistics. This thesis has been supervised by prof. dr. Robert Boute (KU...
On Wednesday, 28 February 2024, Sasan Amini will defend his PhD thesis Constrained Bayesian Optimization with Barrier Functions; impact of heteroscedastic noise on the search and identification phases. This thesis...
On Wednesday, 13 December 2023, Silia Mertens will defend her PhD thesis Logistics decision-making under uncertainty: Real-life applications. This thesis has been supervised by Prof. Kris Braekers (Hasselt University) and...
On Thursday, 7 December 2023, Ruben D’Haen will defend his PhD thesis Heuristic algorithms for the online integrated optimisation of order picking and vehicle routing decisions. This thesis has been...
On 27 November, 2023, Arnoud Wellens will defend his PhD thesis Tree-based Sales Forecasting for Retail Operations. This thesis has been supervised by Prof. dr. Robert N. Boute and Prof....
On Wednesday, 15 November 2023, Sami Özarık will defend his PhD thesis Data-Driven Decision Making in Last-Mile Logistics. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr. T. van Woensel, dr. V....
On Thursday, 23 November 2023, Natasja Sluijk will defend her PhD thesis From Chaos to Control:Effective Approaches for Demand Uncertainty in Vehicle Routing. This thesis has been supervised byprof.dr. T....
On Tuesday, 12 September 2023, Rafael Escamilla will defend his PhD thesis Managing theNanostore Supply Chain: Base-of-the-Pyramid Retail in Emerging Markets. This thesis has beensupervised by prof. Dr. Jan Fransoo...
On Monday, 11 September 2023, Alejandro Morales Hernández will defend his PhD thesis Essays onMachine Learning: Advances in Forecasting and Optimization. This thesis has been supervised byProf. Inneke Van Nieuwenhuyse...
On Friday, 9 June 2023, Joost Goedhart will defend his PhD thesis Inventory Management and Demand Fulfilment in Omni-channel Retail: The Role of the Store. This thesis has been supervised...
On Tuesday, 16 May 2023, Dennis Schol will defend his PhD thesis Extreme-Value Theory for LargeFork-Join Queues. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr. Bert Zwart and prof.dr. Maria Vlasiou.The...
On Tuesday, 9 May 2023, Simon Voorberg will defend his PhD thesis Optimization of InformationAcquisition for Decision-Intensive Processes. This thesis has been supervised by Prof.dr.ir. Geert-Janvan Houtum, dr. Willem van...
On Thursday, 13 April 2023, İpek Dursun will defend her PhD thesis Maintenance optimization andspare parts management in data-integrated environments. This thesis has been supervised byProf.dr.ir. Geert-Jan van Houtum and...
On Thursday February 9th 2023, Wendy Olsder will defend her PhD thesis Optimization Models for Faster and Affordable Access to Rare Disease Treatments. This thesis has been supervised by dr....
Recently, the Operations Research Group of the University of Antwerp joined Beta. The main research topic of the group is the development of optimisation methods to solve a wide range...
On Thursday, 1 September 2022, Nathalie Vanvuchelen will defend her PhD thesis Deep reinforcement learning for inventory control. This thesis has been supervised by Robert Boute. The ceremony will take place...
On Friday, 23 September 2022, Jelle Adan will defend his PhD thesis Operational Decision Making in Semiconductor Manufacturing. This thesis has been supervised by Geert-Jan van Houtum and Alp Akcay....
On June 2-3 the latest edition of the Netherlands Operations Management and Logistics Conference took place. Every other year, Beta co-organizes this two-day conference, which aims to offer networking opportunities...
The GP-OML program of Spring 2024 is online. For more information and registration click on the button below.
On Friday, 18 March 2022, Yesim will defend her PhD thesis Optimal Decision Making under Uncertainty in Biomanufacturing”. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr.ir. Ivo Adan and dr. Tugce...
On Wednesday February 2, 2022, Mirjam Meijer will defend her PhD thesis Optimization and Coordination in High-tech Supply Chains. This thesis has been supervised by Dr. Willem van Jaarsveld and...
On Friday, January 28, 2022, Rik will defend his PhD thesis Performance analysis at the crossroad of queueing theory and road traffic. This thesis has been supervised by prof. dr....
On 31 August 2021, Laurens Deprez will defend his PhD thesis Pricing full-service maintenance contracts. This thesis has been supervised by Prof. dr. Robert Boute and Prof. dr. Katrien Antonio. The...
Beta is glad to announce the second edition of the Beta networking event for its PhD students. The event will take place on Wednesday 24 November at Kontakt der Kontinenten...
On Thursday 25 November 2021, Beta will organize the Beta Symposium at Kontakt der Kontinenten in Soesterberg. The symposium is specifically aimed at the Beta community and offers an interesting...
On Friday, July 5, 2019, Joost de Kruijff will defend his PhD thesis “High-tech Low-volume Production Planning”. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr. A.G. de Kok, dr.ir. C.A.J. Hurkens...
On Thursday, July 4, 2019, Sjors Jansen will defend his PhD thesis “Quantitative Models for Stochastic Project Planning”. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr. A.G. de Kok, prof.dr.ir. I.J.B.F....
On Monday, June 24, 2019, Ramon Eliëns will defend his PhD thesis “Commitment and Decision Making in Product Innovation”. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr. F. Langerak, dr. S.E.C....
On Tuesday, May 14, 2019, Bram Westerweel will defend his PhD thesis “Design and control of capital goods service supply chains with additive manufacturing”. This thesis has been supervised by...
On Tuesday, May 14, 2019, Stela Ivanova will defend her PhD thesis “Emotions, Decisions, Actions: The Psychology of Entrepreneurship”. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr. F. Langerak and dr....
During the Beta Symposium on 11 April the Beta PhD Award 2019 was awarded to dr. Loe Schlicher. The Beta PhD Award 2019 is awarded to the PhD who defended...
On Monday, March 11, 2019, Taher Ahmadi will defend his PhD thesis “Inventory control systems with commitment lead time”. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr. A.G. de Kok, prof.dr.ir....
On Friday, February 15, 2019, Sajjad Rahimi-Ghahroodi will defend his PhD thesis “Integration and Coordination in After-Sales Service Logistics”. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr. W.H.M. Zijm and dr.ir....
On Thursday, January 31, 2019, Nienke Hofstra will defend her PhD thesis “Individual decisionmaking in operations: A behavioral perspective”. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr. W.E.H. Dullaert, prof.dr.ir. S.L.J.M....
On Friday, February 1, 2019, Veerle Timmermans will defend her PhD thesis “Uniqueness and Computation of Equilibria in Resource Allocation Games”. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr. T. Harks...
On Wednesday, January 30, 2019, Joey van Angeren will defend his PhD thesis “Creating and Capturing Value from Digital Products: Implications of Business Model Choice and Product Positioning in the...
On Thursday, January 24, 2019, Erwin van Wingerden will defend his PhD thesis “System-focused spare parts management for capital goods”. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr.ir. G.J.J.A.N. van Houtum...
On Wednesday, January 23, 2019, Mohammad Zolfagharian will defend his PhD thesis “How to study transition problems? Theories, methods and models”. This thesis has been supervised by prof. dr. A.G.L....
On Tuesday, January 15, 2019, Samaneh Bagheri will defend her PhD thesis “Design of a reference model-based approach to support business-IT alignment improvement in co-creation value networks”. This thesis has...
On Tuesday, January 8, 2019, Alireza Hesaraki will defend his PhD thesis “Tactical & operational models for scheduling chemotherapy appointments”. This thesis has been supervised dr.ir. N.P. Dellaert and prof.dr....
In the alternating year of the GP-OML bi-annual Netherlands Conference on OML, Beta organizes a Beta Symposium specifically aimed at the Beta community. Beta offers an interesting program for both...
On Wednesday, December 19, 2018, Nils Knofius will defend his PhD thesis “Additive Manufacturing in After-Sales Service Supply Chains”. This thesis has been supervised Prof.dr. W.H.M. Zijm and Dr. M.C....
On Friday, October 5, 2018, Jochem Jonkman will defend his PhD thesis “Bridging process engineering and supply chain design for agro-food processing chains”. This thesis has been supervised prof.dr. J.M....
On Tuesday, September 11, 2018, Maarten Driessen will defend his PhD thesis “Integrated Capacity Planning and Inventory Control for Repairable Spare Parts”. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr.ir. G.J.J.A.N....
On Tuesday, September 4, 2018, Kati Brock will defend her PhD thesis “New Business Development for Smart Cities: Thinking Outside the Bulb”. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr. F....
On Thursday, July 5, 2018, Maren Vos will defend her PhD thesis “Striking a balance: customization in technology-intensive firms”. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr. E.J. Nijssen, dr. N....
On Thursday, June 28, 2018, Dung Nguyen will defend his PhD thesis “Order Fulfilment and Consumer Behaviour in Online Retailing”. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr. W.E.H. Dullaert, Prof.dr.ir....
On Friday, June 29, 2018, Arturo Pérez Rivera will defend his PhD thesis “Anticipatory Freight Scheduling in Synchromodal Transport”. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr. J. van Hillegersberg and...
On Monday, June 25, 2018, Qianru Ge will defend her PhD thesis “Reliability optimization and system redesign under uncertain failure rates”. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr.ir. G.J.J.A.N. van...
On Thursday, June 21, 2018, Joni Driessen will defend his PhD thesis “Life Cycle Costs Minimization for Capital Goods”. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr.ir. G.J.J.A.N. van Houtum and...
On Monday, May 14, 2018, Madis Talmar will defend his PhD thesis “Designing organizations for innovation in transitioning domains”. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr. A.G.L. Romme, prof.dr. J....
On Thursday, February 22, 2018, Denise Tönissen will defend her PhD thesis “New decomposition methods for two-stage optimization for planning under uncertainty”. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr.ir. G.J.J.A.N....
We would like to announce the PhD course ‘Research Perspectives of Operations Management’. Course details: Date Thursday March 8th and Friday March 9th, 2018 Location Akoesticum, Nieuwe Kazernelaan 2 –...
We would like to announce the PhD course ‘Strategic behavior in service systems’ Course details: Date: Thursday February 22 and Friday February 23 Time: Morning session (2 hours) and afternoon...
