This page provides an overview of the current Beta PhD research projects.
For a brief summary of the main research issue,  click on the title of the research project.

• After sales service logistics subject to new challenges
  Kaveh Alizadeh – UT
• Aggregate planning of assembly lines with reconfigurable cells
  Mehmet Uzunosmanoglu – UGent
• AI-Based Replenishment & Order Fulfilment Strategies for Supply Chains
  Bartu Arslan – TU/e
• AI for sustainable manufacturing
  Erik Boom – Maastricht University
• Artificial Intelligence for sustainable manufacturing
  Luuk Verkleij – Maastricht University
• Anticipatory order picking
  Son Tran – Maastricht University
• Applications of Game Theory and Location Theory to Counter-Terrorism
  Lotte van Aken – TU/e
• Artificial Intelligence for Datadriven Logistics
  Tarkan Temizoz – TU/e
• Big Data for Resilient Logistics (DATAREL)
  Martijn Koot – UT
• Complexity in supply chains
  Dennis Schol – TU/e
• Connected Automated Transport And Logistics Yielding SustainabiliTy (CATALYST)
  Matteo Brunetti – UT
• Context Matters: optimizing shared decision making in real-world forecasting and inventory management
  Kees Maton – TU/e
• Data-driven logistics
  Silia Mertens – Uhasselt
• Data-Driven Optimization for Planning and Scheduling in Flexible Manufacturing Systems
  Reza Ghorbani Saber – UGent
• Data-driven Optimization for a Vital Elderly Care System in the Netherlands
  Rebekka Arntzen – CWI
• Data-Driven Real-Time Decision Making in Supply Chains and Logistics
  Sami Ozarik – TU/e
• Data-driven robust optimization and behavioral approach in inventory management
  Alireza Yadzdani Esfidvajani – TU/e
• Data-driven warehouse optimization A focus on maverick picking
  Aïcha Leroy – Uhasselt
• Dealing with uncertainty in logistics applications
  Riccardo Lo Bianco – TU/e
• Design and Optimization of Automated Warehouse Processes
  Bhoomica Nataraja – TU/e
• Design of healthy, acceptable and sustainable menu plans using mathematical optimization and machine learning techniques
  Dominique van Wonderen – WUR
• Designing and optimizing sustainable food supply chains for healthy diets in China
  Yijun Li – Wageningen University
• Detecting road state and predicting traffic congestion using cooperatively collected probe vehicle data
  Emiliano Heyns – VU Amsterdam
• Developments in the supply chain of nanostores
  Simone Balvers – UvT
• Dynamic rebalancing problem for car-sharing systems
  Dawei Chen – TU/e
• DynaPlex – Deep Reinforcement Learning for Data-Driven Logistics
  Fabian Akkerman – UT
• Efficient planning of fire fighter services
  Guido Legemaate – CWI/ VU Amsterdam
• Efficient Performance Analytics for Large-Scale Logistics Networks
  Oscar Felipe Carrasco Heine – KU Leuven
• Exact and Heuristic Methods for the Capacitated m-Ring-Star Problem (CMRSP)
  Mozhgan Assari – VU Amsterdam
• Excellent Maintenance Planning & Prediction Optimized With Effective Rescheduling
  Michael Geurtsen – TU/e
• Finding the right balance between automation and manual planning in the manufacturing companies
  Maryam Azani – TU/e
• Fork to Farm to Fork
  Maike van Rooijen – Wageningen University
• Generalizable and Understandable Self-Learning Approaches for Dynamic, Large-Scale Resource Management Optimization Problems
  Robbert Reijnen – TU/e
• Green Transport Delta
  Bilgenur Erdogan – TU/e
• ‘Greenmap’ for future sustainable food supply chain networks
  Junhan Zhang – WUR
• Human and Machine [Learning] interaction in Supply Chain Management
  Seyyed Iman Moosavi – Tilburg University
• Hyperparameter tuning using Bayesian optimization
  Alejandro Morales Hernandez – UHasselt
• Improving Human-System Interaction in a Condition-Based Maintenance Setting
  Bas van Oudenhoven – TU/e
• Improving logistics performance in e-commerce by integrating warehouse and delivery operations
  Ruben D’Haen – UHasselt
• Installed Base Forecasting in Inventory Networks
  Annalena Fenkner – UM
• Integral Capacity Management at the Diakonessenhuis, Utrecht
  Hayo Bos – UT
• Integrated Master Planning and Control
  Jeroen Didden – TU/e
• Integrated passenger and freight railway transportation
  Krissada Tundulyasaree – TU/e
• Integrated Planning of Asset Use, Maintenance and Resources for a Fleet of Maritime Assets
  Metehan Dilaver – TU/e
• Integration of agents using Semantic Web Technologies (SWT) in a smart (multi-agent) manufacturing environment
  Mark van der Pas – TU/e
• Integrating tactical and operational decision-making in home health care services
  Arne Delaet – Uhasselt
• Intelligent management of marine mining robotics systems
  Ronald Ponguillo Intriago – UGent
• Intersecting static and dynamic optimization for transport and logistics
  Miguel Chastre – TU/e
• Inventory Management in Times of Environmental Uncertainty
  Nele Helena Thomson – KU Leuven
• Last Mile Delivery Methods using Smart Logistics Concepts in Omni-channel Retailing
  Albina Galiullina – TU/e
• Last-mile Drone Logistics for Humanitarian Aid (AIRLIFT)
  Robert van Steenbergen – UT
• Learning About Customers: Demand Implications of Logistics-Related Decision-Making in B2B
  Tolunay Alankaya – TU/e
• Logistic Models Towards Smart and Sustainable Farming Practices
  Edhem Sakarya – TU/e
• Logistic Optimization in Retail: Smart Algorithms in Inventory Management
  Arnoud Wellens – KU Leuven
• Machine learning in production and inventory control
  Lotte van Hezewijk – TU/e
• Mathematical optimization for decision-making under decision-dependent uncertainty
  Tjalling Veenstra – VU Amsterdam
• Micro Hub Solutions for City Logistics
  Aria Dahimi – TU/e
• Micro-hub solutions for city logistics
  Saba Siadati – TU/e
• Mid- and long-term flexibility planning in innovation-driven, low-volume, high-tech manufacturing supply chains
  Tijn Fleuren – Tilburg University
• Models for predicting the effects of subway stations on multimodal connections and neighborhoods in urban areas
  Jullian van Kampen – CWI
• Multimodal Transportation for On-Demand Delivery
  Arya Zamal – TU/e
• Multi-objective optimization using Gaussian Processes
  Sasan Amini – UHasselt
• Omnichannel retailing in the fashion industry
  Joost Goedhart – WUR
• Optimal multi-stage job scheduling in the animal food production industry
  Wouter Berkelmans – CWI/VU Amsterdam
• Optimising the design of a hybrid urban mobility system
  Seyedehsima Madani – VU Brussel
• Optimization for Urban Delivery in Megacities (VRP)
  Chen Wang – VU Amsterdam
• Optimization of the capacity planning and scheduling within the court by applying Operation Research and or Management Methods
  Ieke Schrader – UT
• Optimization problems in synchromodal transportation
  Thibault Delbart – UHasselt
• Optimizing the World’s Largest Retail Channel: Drivers of the Digital Transformation in the Nanostore Supply Chain
  Rafael Escamilla Gonzalez Aragon – TiU
• Performance analysis of automated warehousing systems
  Tim Engels – TU/e
• Pioneering the Digital Future for Omnichannel Retail Managers
  Somayeh Torkaman – TU/e
• Planner 2.0 – Future of Customer Supply Chain Management
  Joan Stip – TiU
• Predictive Maintenance for Agricultural Hightech Equipment
  Ipek Kivanc – TU/e
• Pricing dynamic and experience-based maintenance contracts
  Stijn Loeys – KU Leuven
• Quantitative approaches for collaborative transport operations
  Vincent Karels – TU/e
• Quantitative evaluation of the valorization potential of available feedstocks at supply chain level
  Emmanuel Anom – WUR
• Real-time Data-driven maintenance logistics
  Simon Voorberg – TU/e
• Real-time data driven maintenance logistics
  Peter Verleijsdonk – TU/e
• Recommender System of Assembly System Configurations
  Daniel Guzman Vargas – UGent
• Redesign and integration of food and biobased supply networks
  Jim Groot – WUR
• Resilient and AI-based Supply Chain Management via Analytics for Retailers
  Ilgin Efe Senyuva – TU/e
• Robust data-driven spare parts inventory management under uncertain demand/failure
  Zhao Kang – TU/e
• Robust data-driven sustainable food supply chain
  Marloes Remijnse – TU/e
• Robust Optimization in Safety Stock Placement problem for Multi-Echelon Supply chains
  Cheshmeh Chamani – UGent
• Routing and scheduling algorithms for integrated mobility systems with dynamic and stochastic characteristics
  Soukaina Bayri – VU Brussel
• Routing and scheduling in Supply Chain Networks
  Farzaneh Rajabighamchi – UM
• Routing problems with location selection and inventory restrictions
  Inez Puttemans – UHasselt
• Selective assembly for complex products in a dynamic production environment
  Andrea Mencaroni – UGent
• Smart data-driven maintenance and service logistics
  Ragnar Eggertsson – TU/e
• Smart decision support for maintenance logistics
  Naim Al Khoury – Ugent
• Smart Logistics: Taking Inventory Optimization to the Next Level
  Bram De Moor – KU Leuven
• Smart Multimodal Urban Logistics
  Giovanni Campuzano – UT
• Socially Responsible Supply Chains
  Ayten Beyza Emre – TU/e
• Solving cooperative games for sustainable supply chain
  Fabio Mercurio – TU/e
• Stochastic Optimization Models for Allocation of Quality Inspection in Flexible Assembly
  Sajjad Hedayati – UGent
• Stochastic processes driven by non-convex resource allocation problems
  Mark Christianen – TU/e
• Strategic location of public-access defibrillators
  Robin Buter – UT
• Studies on alternative waste-reduction strategies for online supermarkets
  Laura Sprenkels – TU/e
• Sustainable Supply Chain Management in Healthcare
  Sara Charaf – TU/e
• Synchromodal transport and smart replenishment
  Hannah Yee – KU Leuven
• Synchromodal Transportation Simulation and Modelling
  Shafagh Alaei Jordehi – VU Brussel
• The Economic Value of Soil Quality: Optimizing the land use and soil quality in Dutch arable and dairy farming
  Maarten Kik – WUR
• The Feature-Based Network Fitting Framework: an approach for fitting structural features in networks
  Christian Franssen – VU Amsterdam
• The Impact of Logistics Performance on Cross-Border E-Commerce Sales: An empirical study
  Faranak Khooban – TU/e
• The integration of human factors in order picking planning problems
  Thomas De Lombaert – Uhasselt
• Theoretical vs. real-life Vehicle Route Planning
  Marieh Kadivar – TU/e
• Time window assignment and vehicle routing problems with stochastic travel time
  Sifanur Celik – TU/e
• Towards Physical Internet as a Novel Logistic Paradigm
  Shiqi Sun – VU Brussel
• Towards the development of a smart and sharing industrial campus
  Nitish Singh – TU/e
• Transportation cost minimization
  Luuk van Rijthoven – UM
• Use Machine Learning to solve stochastic vehicle routing problems
  Natasja Sluijk – TU/e
• Vaccine distribution supply chains in developing countries
  Kim De Boeck – KU Leuven