Academic education:
1971, January: Doctor of Business Administration in Tilburg, cum laude
Dissertation title: “Variance reduction techniques in simulation”
Supervisors: professors Max Euwe (Tilburg) and Henk Lombaers (Delft Technical University)
1964: Master's (“doctoraal”) in Tilburg, cum laude
1961, June: Bachelor's (“candidaats”) in Tilburg, cum laude
1958, October: Start of study in Business Administration and Economics, majoring in Operations Research (“bedrijfseconometrie”) in Tilburg
Employment history in the Netherlands:
2013, December – now: Emeritus Professor of Simulation and Information Systems, at Tilburg University
2005, December – 2013, December: Part-time Professor of Simulation and Information Systems (40%, 2005-2010; 20%, 2010- 2013)
2005, January –- 2005, December: Part-time (50%) Professor of Operations Research in Wageningen (Netherlands) at Wageningen University and Research Centre; member of the “Operations Research and Logistics” group and the "Mansholt Graduate School of Social Sciences"
1980, October – 2005, December: Professor of Simulation and Information Systems
1965, November – 1980, October: Assistant Professor ("universitair docent, UD") and Associate Professor ("universitair hoofddocent, UHD") at Tilburg University, first with Professor Max Euwe and then with Professor Gert Nielen
1965, February – 1965, November: Research Associate at the Economic Institute Tilburg (EIT)
Employment and education history in the United States:
2003, April: Visiting Stanford University, Department of Statistics; host: Professor Art Owen
2002, April: Visiting Naval Postgraduate School, Department of Operations Research; hosts: professors Tom Lucas and Susan Sanchez
1996, November – December: Consultant for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico; host: Professor Jon Helton
1992, April: Visiting Stanford University, Department of Operations Research; hosts: professors Peter Glynn and Donald Iglehart.
Lectures presented at Claremont, IBM Research San Jose, Naval Postgraduate School, RAND, Stanford, and UCLA
1991, April: Visiting University of Central Florida, Department of Statistics, Orlando; host: Professor Mark Johnson
1988, Summer: Supercomputer Visiting Scientist Program, Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey; research with professor Nabil Adam, Graduate School of Management, Rutgers University,Newark
1984, Summer: Consultant at Pritsker & Associates (P & A), West Lafayette, Indiana; research with Dr. Charlie Standridge (P & A) and professor Lee Schruben (Cornell University); summer course taught
1981, Summer: Visiting IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York; research with Drs. Phil Heidelberger, Steve Lavenberg, and Peter Welch
1979, Summer: Indiana University, Graduate School ofBusiness, Bloomington; summer course taught, at professor Clay Whybark's invitation
1973, December – 1974, December: Postdoctoral Fellow at IBM Research Laboratory, San Jose, California; research with Drs. Lin Barbosa and Jean-Paul Jacob
1969, Summer: Duke University, Economics Department, Durham, North Carolina; research with professor Don Burdick (Mathematics Dept.), at professor Tom Naylor's invitation
1968, Summer: Duke University; research with professors Tom Naylor and Tom Wonnacott (Western Ontario University; visiting Duke University)
1968, January – August: Visiting Scholar at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Graduate School of Business Administration; research with professors Ross Nelson and Jim MacQueen
1967, September – December: graduate student at UCLA
Computer training:
1987- now: training in many computer languages and software packages; e.g., Java, PowerPoint, MS-Windows, Basic, dBASE III Plus, WordPerfect, Word, SAS
1974: APL, Data Base Management Systems
1972: COBOL
1966: IBM-1620-SPS, IBM-360-Systems, Fortran
1967: Algol60, PL-1
Committees:
Member and chairman of several international program committees, computer committees, research committees, curriculum committees, and managerial boards -- at the university and at national organizations.
Professional organizations:
Currently a member of INFORMS (including the "Simulation Society") and the Netherlands Society for Operations Research and Statistics (VVS).
Formerly a member of the Society for Computer Simulation (SCS, Senior Member per May 1994), etc.
"Who is who" listings:
International listings
"Who's Who in American Education", 2006-2007, seventh edition, Marquis, Chicago
"Who's who in the world", Marquis, Chicago
"Prominent names in simulation", Society for Computer Simulation
"Men of achievement" and "International leaders in achievement", International Biographic Centre, Cambridge, U.K
"The international directory of distinguished leadership" and "International Book of Honor", American Biographic Institute, Raleigh, N.C.
Dutch listings
“Who is who in the Netherlands” (“Wie is wie in Nederland”), Uitgeverij Pragma Nederland, The Hague
Top-30 of Dutch economists 2008, Economisch-Statistische Berichten (ESB), 17 April 2009
Top-20 of Dutch economists 2006, ESB, November 2006
Top-30 of Dutch economists 1999-2003, ESB, 7 April 2006
Top-30 of Dutch economists, ESB, December 2005
Top-40 of Dutch economists, ESB, December 2004
Intermediair, volume 39, no. 50, 11 December 2003
ESB, 12 December 2003, pages 600-604
Intermediair, volume 2, 11 January 2001, pp. 34-37
“The Netherlands economists” top-30 in 1998” (Economentop”), ESB, 18 December 1998, pages 965-968
Intermediair, volume 29, no. 50, 17 December 1993, page 1
“Measuring the productivity of Dutch management scientists in 1990-1993” (in Dutch), MAB, December 1996, pp. 665-676.
Languages:
Dutch (mother tongue), English (fluent), German (fluent), French (good), Spanish (rudimentary)
Personal information:
Born: 22 November 1940 in Maastricht (The Netherlands)
Married; two children; seven grandchildren
Hobbies: tennis, reading