Currently I’m a tenured assistant professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Previously I worked at Maastricht University, the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, and Universidad de Chile.
My main research areas are algorithmic game theory, algorithmic mechanism design, and approximation algorithms. Over the past years, I focused mostly on flows over time and optimal stopping problems. My research is fundamental in nature, but is driven by problems observed in practice that suffer from a lack of coordination or resource limitations.
I organize the Opera Seminar of the Operations Analytics department of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and I am part of the organizational committee of the Dutch Seminar on Optimization. I am a research fellow of the Tinbergen Institute, and member of Beta, Diamant, Gesellschaft für Operations Research and Landelijk Netwerk Mathematische Besliskunde.
Please do not hesitate to contact me using my details below in case of any questions or remarks. I would also be very happy to send you a copy of any research article for free.
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, School of Business and Economics, Department of Operations Analytics
De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam
Office: HG-07A79
Email: t.s.oosterwijk [at] gmail "dot" com or t.oosterwijk [at] vu "dot" nl
Below are recent highlights, please see the News Archive page for all news.
2027 07 Conference: ISMP 2027 will take place in Amsterdam! I am the head of the social program committee and I am very excited to organize this prestigious conference with a lot of Dutch colleagues. Reserve 25-30 July 2027 in your calendar!
2026 04 Symposium: On April 2, the new initiative of the Dutch Game Theory Symposium will take place in Tilburg! I will give a talk about "Bicriteria Nash Flows over Time". Join us for the day for a very interesting event!
2026 01 PhD committee: I will be a part of the committee before which Ashkan Safari will defend his PhD thesis on January 21 at Maastricht University!
2026 01 Conference: I will attend the 51st edition of the yearly LNMB conference on the Mathematics of Operations Research, happening in Soesterberg on Monday 13-15 January! I'm looking forward to a great new edition!
2025 11 Article: The paper "On the complexity of capacitated vehicle routing with order restrictions" by Steven Miltenburg, René Sitters and me has been accepted for the SOFSEM 2026 conference! I will post a link once it's ready.
2025 09 Educator's Collective for Active Blended Learning: Since this month, I take part in this group of people. I am the co-leader of the project that will rethink the final projects in our bachelor’s and master’s programmes, which traditionally are written theses. Our goal: to explore (new) formats that truly reward students for their efforts, align with the right learning goals, and feel meaningful to complete. I am excited to take up this opportunity!