Kees Jan Roodbergen
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Current position
2011 - present | Professor of Quantitative Logistics at University of Groningen (as of Feb. 1, 2011) |
Current side positions
2012 - present | Director of the Center for Operational Excellence |
2010 - present | Member of the College-Industry Council on Material Handling Education (CICMHE) |
2008 - present | Member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the World Food Logistics Organization |
2001 - present | Visiting professor at BEM - Management School Bordeaux, France. |
Past positions
2011 | Member of Jury for electing "The logistics webshop of the year" (more) |
2008 - 2011 | Associate professor at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University |
2007 | Visiting professor at Virginia Tech, department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (May - October). The industrial engineering program of Virginia Tech ranked 8th in the U.S. News & World Report 2007 |
2001 - 2008 | Assistant professor at RSM Erasmus University |
2000 - 2001 | Instructor at RSM Erasmus University |
1999 | Visiting scholar at Georgia Tech, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (October - December) The industrial engineering program of Georgia Tech ranked 1st in the U.S. News & World Report 1999 |
1996 - 2000 | Ph.D. candidate at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam |
Education
2001 | graduated as Ph.D. at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Thesis titled "Layout and routing methods for warehouses", thesis advisors prof. dr. M.B.M. de Koster and prof. dr. ir. J.A.E.E. van Nunen. |
1996 | Graduated as M.Sc. in Econometrics (specialization in Operations Research) at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Master's thesis titled "The symmetric traveling salesman problem, removing the influence of constant matrices on heuristic performances", supervisors prof. dr. G. Sierksma, and dr. E.S. van der Poort. |
Research grants
2012 | Grant from Dinalog (project budget: 625.000 Euro) for multi-channel strategies and IT structures in e-commerce |
2010 | Grant from Dinalog (a government-funded research institute) in 2010 for the project "Cross-chain order fulfilment coordination for internet sales".
Project leader: dr. K.J. Roodbergen. Participating researchers: prof.dr. J. Boter, prof. dr. I.F.A. Vis. Budget: € 1.1 million Consortium partners: University of Groningen, VU University Amsterdam, Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Amsterdam, Neckermann.com, Ctac, Centraal Boekhuis, Scanyours.com, Sectorinstituut Openbare Bibliotheken (SIOB), Vereniging Openbare Bibliotheken (VOB). Project approval: The project was approved and subsidies were allotted May 12, 2010 by the board of Dinalog on the advice of Dinalog's Scientific Advisory Committee (Jo van Nunen, Bernhard Fleischmann, Santiago Kraiselburd, Hau Lee, Don Ratliff, Luk van Wassenhove) |
2007 | Grants of ERIM and "Vereniging Trustfonds" for a visit to the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
1999 | Grant of the Dutch foundation for scientific research (NWO) for a visit to the Georgia Institute of Technology |
Memberships
INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences)VVS (Dutch Society for Statistics and Operations Research)
Address information
prof. dr. Kees Jan RoodbergenUniversity of Groningen
Faculty of Economics and Business
office: 669 (Duisenberg-building)
Address: Nettelbosje 2, 9747 AE Groningen, The Netherlands
Postal address: P.O. Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
Phone: +31-50-3637020
Fax: +31-50-3632032