Programme PhD Presentations 2026
12 January 2026
| Room Steyl: Healthcare Operations | |
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| 14:30–15:00 | Anne-Fleur Dijkhorst, Erasmus University
Resource allocation in hospitals and ambulances to decrease time to care in EMS systems in LMICs Discussant: Dr. Meike Reusken |
| 15:00–15:30 | Giulia Montagna, Erasmus University
Information design for volunteer emergency response Discussant: Dr. Ymro Hoogendoorn |
| 15:30–16:00 | Roby Cremers, Erasmus University
Wanted, dead or alive: Leveraging deceased donors for enhanced patient outcomes in kidney exchange Discussant: Dr. Ad Ridder |
| Room St. Janzaal: Algorithmic & Solver Innovations | |
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| 14:30–15:00 | Denise Graafsma, University of Twente
Refining the Complexity Landscape of Speed Scaling Discussant: Prof. Dr. Tjark Vredeveld |
| 15:00–15:30 | Cédric Roy, Eindhoven University of Technology
A framework for handling and exploiting symmetry in Benders' decomposition Discussant: Prof. Dr. Monique Laurent |
| 15:30–16:00 | Maarten Flippo, Delft University of Technology
Exploiting cutting planes reasoning in constraint programming solvers Discussant: Dr. Antonios Antoniadis |
13 January 2026
| Room Steyl: Health and Logistics | |
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| 11:15–11:45 | Victor R. Ploeg, University of Twente
When pandemic allocation meets regular care: stability analysis of a multi-hospital regular care queueing network via fluid limits Discussant: Prof. Dr. Ger Koole |
| 11:45–12:15 | Sten Wessel, Eindhoven University of Technology
Fair policies for sequential resource allocation Discussant: Dr. Ruben Hoeksma |
| 12:15–12:45 | Ugur Guler, Maastricht University
A fair and efficient way of cost sharing in collaborative VRP Discussant: Dr. Tim Oosterwijk |
| Room Angola: Real-time Operations, Recovery & Capacity Management | |
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| 11:15–11:45 | Danny Zhu, Erasmus University
Real-time rolling stock rescheduling with dynamic and uncertain disruption information Discussant: Dr. Ahmadreza Marandi |
| 11:45–12:15 | Philip de Bruin, Utrecht University
Integrated airline fleet and crew recovery through local search Discussant: Dr. Alessandro Zocca |
| 12:15–12:45 | Gijs Bakker, University of Groningen
A dynamic overbooking model for parcel locker systems Discussant: Dr. Bodo Manthey |
| Room Congo: Spatial Dynamics in Optimization and Control | |
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| 11:15–11:45 | Jiayun Wang, University of Twente
Dynamic resource flow optimization in hubs for circularity (H4C) Discussant: Dr. Stella Kapodistria |
| 11:45–12:15 | Maike de Jongh, University of Twente
Preventing large-scale avalanches in the two-dimensional Abelian sandpile model through strategic interventions Discussant: Prof. Dr. Nelly Litvak |
| 12:15–12:45 | Britt van Veggel, University of Amsterdam
Heatmaps for maximum coverage facility location optimization Discussant: |
| Room Steyl: Variation, Robustness & Sequential Decision Trade-offs | |
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| 14:30–15:00 | Alban Kryeziu, University of Groningen
A unified variation error bounds for expected value functions with application to two-stage recourse models Discussant: Prof. Dr. Bernd Heidergott |
| 15:00–15:30 | Sina Shahri Majarshin, Eindhoven University of Technology
A robust age-based replacement problem Discussant: Dr. Bart Van Parys |
| 15:30–16:00 | Kjell Raaijmakers, Eindhoven University of Technology
The speed–accuracy trade-off: optimizing congestion, testing speed, and diagnostic precision Discussant: Prof. Dr. Richard Boucherie |
| Room Angola: Supply Chain Resilience & Inventory Under Uncertainty | |
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| 14:30–15:00 | Busra Gultekin, Wageningen University & Research
Reverse stress testing for supply chains Discussant: Prof. Dr. Remy Spliet |
| 15:00–15:30 | Tjum van Dijck, Tilburg University
Inventory planning in capacitated high-tech assembly systems under non-stationary demand Discussant: Prof. Dr. Wilco van den Heuvel |
| 15:30–16:00 | Casper Loman, Utrecht University
A two-stage stochastic programming algorithm for creating robust freight train schedules Discussant: Dr. Markus Leitner |
| Room Congo: Queuing, Pricing & Inventory Interaction | |
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| 14:30–15:00 | Ekaterina Kosarevskaia, Leiden University
Two-product make-to-stock systems: strategic joining and optimal inventory levels Discussant: Dr. Anne Zander |
| 15:00–15:30 | Bas Verseveldt, Tilburg University
Robust randomized pricing with purpose Discussant: |
| 15:30–16:00 | Camiel Koopmans, Leiden University
To control or not to control: reducing average cost when control comes at a price Discussant: Dr. Eyal Castiel |