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Latest updated: April 17, 2009

Education

Jan. 1971:Doctor of Business Administration in Tilburg, Cum Laude Dissertation: 'Variance reduction techniques in simulation'. Supervisors: professors Max Euwe (Tilburg) and Henk Lombaers (Delft Technical University)

1964:Master's ('Doctoraal') in Tilburg, Cum Laude

June 1961: Bachelor's ('Candidaats') in Tilburg, Cum Laude

Oct. 1958: Start of study in Business Administration and Economics, majoring in Operations Research ('bedrijfseconometrie') in Tilburg

Employment history: Netherlands

Dec. 2005 - now: Part-time (40%) Professor of Simulation and Information Systems

Oct. 19'80 - Dec. 2005: Professor of Simulation and Information Systems

Jan. 2005 - Dec. 2005: Part-time (50%) Professor of 'Operations Research' at Wageningen University and Research Centre; member of the 'Operations Research and Logistics' group and the Mansholt Graduate School of Social Sciences

Nov. 1965 - Oct. 1980: Research Associate at Tilburg University, first with professor Max Euwe, and then with professor Gert Nielen

Feb. 1965 - Nov. 1965: Research Associate at the Economic Institute Tilburg (EIT)

Employment and education history: United States

April 2003: Stanford University, Department of Statistics. Host: Professor Art Owen

April 2002: Naval Postgraduate School, Department of Operations Research. Hosts: professors Tom Lucas and Susan Sanchez

Nov. - Dec. 1996: Consultant for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Host: Jon Helton

April '92: 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

April 1991: University of Central Florida, Department of Statistics, Orlando. Host: professor Mark Johnson

Summer 1988: Supercomputer Visiting Scientist Program, Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey. Research with professor Nabil Adam, Graduate School of Management, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey

Summer 1984: Pritsker & Associates (P & A), West Lafayette, Indiana. Research with Dr. Charlie Standridge (P & A) and professor Lee Schruben (Cornell University); summer course taught

Summer 1981:IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. Research with Drs. Phil Heidelberger, Steve Lavenberg, and Peter Welch

Summer 1979: Indiana University, Graduate School of Business, Bloomington. Summer course taught, at professor Clay Whybark's invitation

Dec. 1973 - Dec. 1974: IBM Research Laboratory, San Jose, California. Research with Drs. Lin Barbosa and Jean-Paul Jacob

Summer 1969: Duke University, Economics Department, Durham, North Carolina Research with professor Don Burdick (Mathematics Dept.), at professor Tom Naylor's invitation

Summer 1968: Duke University. Research with professors Tom Naylor and Tom Wonnacott (Western Ontario University; visiting)

Jan. 1968 - Aug. 1968: University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Graduate School of Business Administration; visiting scholar. Re search with professors Ross Nelson and Jim MacQueen

Sept. 1967 - Jan. 1968: UCLA; graduate student

Computer training
1987 - now: Java, Powerpoint, MS-Windows, Basic, dBASE III Plus, WordPerfect, SAS, etc.
1974: APL, Data Base Management Systems
1972: COBOL
1966: IBM-1620-SPS, IBM-360-Systems, Fortran
1967: Algol 60, 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

INFORMS (including Simulation Society), Society for Computer Simulation (SCS, Senior Member per May 1994), Netherlands Society for Operations Research and Statistics (VVS), etc.

'Who is who' listings
International listings

Languages

Fluent Dutch (mother tongue), English, and German; good French; basic Spanish

Personal information

Born: 22 November 1940 in Maastricht (Netherlands)
Married: two children
Hobbies: tennis, swimming, ice skating, reading, traveling


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