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