Research and Teaching Awards
2025 EURO Award for the Best EJOR Paper in the Theory and Methodology category (selected among 1044 papers published in the EJOR journal in the calendar years 2022 and 2023).
2024 Groundbreaking Scientist Award, Eindhoven University of Technology Science Awards.
2024 INFORMS Health Applications Society Mehrotra Research Excellence Prize, Finalist.
2024 Decision Sciences Institute Best Paper Award, First prize.
2023 IE&IS Valorization (Translational Research) Prize at Eindhoven University of Technology to recognize excellence in the practice of operations research.
2022 Finalist for INFORMS Franz Edelman Prize in collaboration with Merck Animal Health.
2022 Best Teacher in the Operations Management and Logistics Master's Program (Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Science).
2021 INFORMS Innovative Applications in Analytics Award, Second Prize.
2021 Article featured in the Industrial Engineer Magazine of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) to highlight the impact of industrial engineering research on professional practice (February 2021).
2021 Best Teacher in the Operations Management and Logistics Master's Program (Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Science).
2020 MSCA Presidency Awards by the European Commission, Finalist in Category III: Impact of intersectoral and interdisciplinary mobility and transfer of knowledge.
2019 Best Teacher in the Operations Management and Logistics Master's Program (Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Science).
2019 INFORMS Decision Analysis Society Excellence in Practice Award, Finalist.
2019 EURO Excellence in Practice Award, Finalist.
2018 Talent Award for Excellence in Teaching (Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Science).
2017 INFORMS TIMES Best Dissertation Award, First Prize.
2016 INFORMS George B. Dantzig Dissertation Prize, Honorable Mention.
2016 POMS Applied Research Challenge, First Prize.
2016 Article featured in the Industrial Engineer Magazine of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers to highlight the impact of industrial engineering research on professional practice.
2015 M&SOM Student Paper Competition, Finalist.
Research Grants
Innovational Research Incentives Scheme VIDI. Granted by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, NWO (EUR 929,359 for 2024-2029).
Innovational Research Incentives Scheme VENI (Equivalent to the NSF CAREER Award). Granted by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, NWO (EUR 246,978 for 2018-2022).
Advanced Manufacturing Logistics, Provincie Noord Brabant (EUR 2,134,159 for 2018-2021).
Acquired industry sponsorship for one Ph.D. project at MSD Animal Health (for 2022-2026).
Internal funding provided by Eindhoven University of Technology (EUR 240,000 for 2020-2024).
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship granted by the European Commission, Horizon 2020 (EUR 177,598 for 2016-2018).
Control and Optimization of Biomanufacturing Systems. Funded by the National Science Foundation. Jointly conceptualized and written with Ananth Krishnamurthy and Christos Maravelias ($325,000 for 2013-2016, CMMI-1334933).
Editorial
Associate Editor of Operations Research (since 2023).
Associate Editor of Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Practice-Based Research Competition (2024-2025), Data-Driven Research Challenge (2024-2025).
Associate Editor of the Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal (since 2020).
Co-chair of the Healthcare and Life Sciences track at the Winter Simulation Conference (2023, 2024, 2025).