See my Curriculum Vitae for more details. Please contact me in case you are interested in e.g. slides or exercises.
In spring 2026, I teach the LNMB nationwide Master-course Scheduling together with Ruben Hoeksma. This course treats topics such as classification of scheduling models, single-machine models, parallel-machines models, open shop models, flow shop models, job shop models, scheduling under uncertainty, game theory in scheduling and applications of scheduling.
In spring 2025, I taught the LNMB nationwide PhD-course Randomized Algorithms together with René Sitters. This course treats topics such as the fingerprinting technique, the probabilistic method, online and approximation algorithms, derandomization, semidefinite programming, approximate counting, Lovász local lemma, a PTAS for Euclidean TSP and the PCP-theorem.
At the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam I am involved in the following courses.
Business Mathematics. This is a course for the first year of the Bedrijfskunde (Business Administration) bachelor. It covers various topics ranging from equation solving to linear programming and from matrix operations to constrained optimization.
Supply Chain Management 2. This is an elective course for the second year of the Bedrijfskunde (Business Administration) bachelor. It covers network design, global supply chain management, inventory management, pricing and revenue management, and coordination and sourcing decisions.
Supply Chain Management 1. This is a course for the first year of the Bedrijfskunde (Business Administration) bachelor. It covers inventory management, production and distribution networks, sales and operations planning, and sustainability.
Numerical Methods. This is a course for the second year of the Econometrics & Operations Research bachelor. It covers Python programming, floating point representations, and numerical methods for root finding, interpolation, derivation, integration, and splines.
From March 2019 to August 2021, I coordinated the following courses at Maastricht University. My average student evaluation was 9.4 out of 10.
Quantitative Introduction to Business. This is a course for the first year of the Econometrics & Operations Research bachelor. It covers operations management problems in strategic capacity planning, facility layout, location planning, inventory management, scheduling, and linear programming.
Second-Year Project I. This is a course for the second year of the Econometrics & Operations Research bachelor. Students have one week to implement a Java program that computes solutions to an optimization problem.
Allocations and Algorithms (now called Advanced Algorithms). This is a course for the third year of the Econometrics & Operations Research bachelor. It covers fundamental techniques in algorithm design (in particular approximation algorithms) and an introduction to the field of algorithmic game theory.
Management of Operations and Product Development. This is a course for the second year of the International Business bachelor. It covers operations management problems in strategic capacity planning, facility layout, location planning, quality management, inventory management, scheduling, project management, and integer linear programming.
Here is a short summary of my past teaching experience.
Operations Research and Business Intelligence courses at Maastricht University (2014 - 2018)
Calculus and Analysis courses at Eindhoven University of Technology (2009 - 2011)
Mathematics and Projection Theory at Civilion (2012 - 2013)
Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry at StudieCentrum Zuid (2011 - 2013)
Private tutor in Mathematics and Calculus (2004 - 2013)
I obtained my University Teaching Qualification (BKO) from Maastricht University in November 2021.
Steven Miltenburg, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, started in September 2022. Co-promotor with Leen Stougie and René Sitters.
Moritz Buchem, Maastricht University, 29 November 2022. Hiking in the Scheduling Landscape: Exact and Approximation Algorithms for Parallel Machines. Co-promotor, with promotor Tjark Vredeveld.
Eline Baaleman (2026 expected)
Bart van der Veen (2026 expected)
Maarten Hoeneveld 2025: Improving Fairness in Swiss-System Tournaments by Dynamic Point Allocation (cum laude)
Kiet Vu 2025: Secretary Problem with Reinforcement Learning
Jikke Bovelander 2024: Optimization of Convoy Routing in Various Graph Structures: A Comprehensive Study (cum laude)
Lorance Helwani 2024: Scheduling a Subset of Jobs on a Single Machine with Precedence Constraints
Jelger Oud 2024: Social Distancing in Dynamic Networks
Stefan de Haas 2023: Scheduling a subset of jobs to minimize the sum of weighted completion times on a single machine
Fleur Krijgsman 2023: Partial scheduling on a single machine with the objective to minimize the total flow
Gidius Bok 2022: The Actual Weight Algorithm
Selina Meeks 2021: Small and Large Equitable Travelling Salesman Problem
Lennart de Harder (2026 expected)
Eline de Kloet 2025: The impact of a seasonality factor and safety stock to minimise stockouts in the fashion industry
Nu Phong Trinh 2025: Concept of enhancing supplier order decisions: integrating color into the SARIMAX model for new fashion products
Shelton Aloewel 2025: Customer to-customer returns, a sustainable way to save CO2 emissions?
Max Berns 2024: The Impact of Precedence Constraints on Customer-to-Customer Delivery Efficiency in Varied Customer Density Scenarios Using the Traveling Salesman Problem
Tom Geurts 2024: The Effects of Time-Dependent Travel Speeds in a Time-Dependent Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Precedence Constraints
Pepijn de Lange 2024: Concept of determining core products: Differentiation of safety stock calculatuion based on product color under stochastic demand
Wouter Smidt 2024: Reefer containers in liner shipping network design (summa cum laude)
Lynn Vlaar 2024: Reliability of Occasional Drivers in Vehicle Routing Problems
Jay Schardam 2023: The use of customer communication and pick-up-points during the delivery process to optimize routes in the last mile
Tjarko Schermer 2023: Quantification of the financial effects of a Customer-to-Customer return policy under varying scenarios (cum laude)
Elbert van de Gein 2022: Anticipatory Order Picking: A Simulation and Comparison with Order Picking
2024: E&OR 1, IBA 1
2023: E&OR 2, IBA 5
2022: E&OR 3, IBA 5, premaster TSCM 5
2021: E&OR 4
2020: E&OR 6
2019: E&OR 1