Bart van Rossum

I am a postdoctoral fellow in Operations Research at the Operations, Planning, Accounting & Control (OPAC) group at Eindhoven University of Technology, advised by dr. Rolf van Lieshout. 

My research interests include railway crew planning, fairness-oriented optimisation, and combinatorial optimisation in general. I apply a wide range of mathematical programming techniques, with a strong focus on large-scale column generation. 

In May 2025, I obtained my PhD at the Econometric Institute of Erasmus University Rotterdam, supervised by dr. Twan Dollevoet and prof.dr. Dennis Huisman. My doctoral dissertation features a close collaboration with Netherlands Railways, the largest passenger railway operator of the Netherlands. I was a finalist for the EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2026. 

From September to December 2025, I visited prof.dr. Alexandre Jacquillat at MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From February to June 2023, I visited prof.dr. Andrea Lodi and dr. Rui Chen at Cornell Tech in New York City.