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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 by dr.ir. Rob Basten and prof.dr.ir. Geert-Jan van Houtum. Continue reading →

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 and dr. Willem van Jaarsveld. The ceremony will take Continue reading →

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 and prof. dr. Kris Braekers. The ceremony will take Continue reading →

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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 and dr.ir. Wouter van Heeswijk. The ceremony will take Continue reading →

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 Leuven) and prof. dr. Stefan Creemers (IÉSEG School of Continue reading →

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 has been supervised by Professor Dr. Inneke Van Nieuwenhuyse. Continue reading →

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 Prof. An Caris (Hasselt University). The ceremony will take Continue reading →

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 supervised by Prof. Kris Braekers (Hasselt University) and Prof. Continue reading →

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. dr. Maximiliano Udenio. The ceremony will take place at KU Continue reading →

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. Lurkin and dr. L.P. Veelenturf. The ceremony will take Continue reading →

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 by
prof.dr. T. van Woensel and dr. J. Kinable. The Continue reading →

On Tuesday, 12 September 2023, Rafael Escamilla will defend his PhD thesis Managing the
Nanostore Supply Chain: Base-of-the-Pyramid Retail in Emerging Markets. This thesis has been
supervised by prof. Dr. Jan Fransoo and dr. Prisca Brosi. The ceremony will Continue reading →

On Monday, 11 September 2023, Alejandro Morales Hernández will defend his PhD thesis Essays on
Machine Learning: Advances in Forecasting and Optimization. This thesis has been supervised by
Prof. Inneke Van Nieuwenhuyse (Hasselt University), Prof. Koenraad Vanhoof (Hasselt University), Continue reading →

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 by prof.dr.ir. Sander de Leeuw, dr. Renzo Akkerman and Continue reading →