dr. Thomas Breugem

Bio

Thomas Breugem is an assistant professor of supply chain management at the School of Economics and Management at Tilburg University, and part of the Zero Hunger Lab. His research focuses on complex practical problems in humanitarian operations, access to health/medicine, and transportation logistics, with a particular focus on equity and fairness issues. He uses mathematical optimization methods to improve operations and quantify strategic trade-offs. He obtained his Ph.D. at the Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam,  and is a visiting scholar at INSEAD’s Humanitarian Research Group.

Courses

• Sustainable Supply Management
• Advanced Topics (Fall)
• Collab. in SCM and Adv. Topics (Spring)

Recent publications

1. A three-phase heuristic for the fairness-oriented crew rostering Prob…

   Breugem, T., Schlechte, T., Schulz, C., & Borndoerfer, R. (2023). A three-phase heuristic for the fairness-oriented crew rostering Problem. Computers & Operations Research, 154, Article 106186.

2. Equity in Health and Humanitarian Logistics - A Beneficiary Perspecti…

   Breugem, T., Fan, Y., Gernert, A., & Van Wassenhove, L. N. (2023). Equity in Health and Humanitarian Logistics: A Beneficiary Perspective. (CentER Discussion Paper; Vol. 2023-003). CentER, Center for Economic Research.

3. Visit Allocation Problems in Multi-Service Settings - Policies and Wo…

   Breugem, T., Wolter, T. S., & Van Wassenhove, L. N. (2023). Visit Allocation Problems in Multi-Service Settings: Policies and Worst-Case Bounds. (CentER Discussion Paper; Vol. 2023-004). CentER, Center for Economic Research.

4. How Tony’s chocolonely created a purpose-driven (and profitable) supp…

   Pannekoek, F., Breugem, T., & Van Wassenhove, L. N. (2023). How Tony’s chocolonely created a purpose-driven (and profitable) supply chain. Harvard business review. https://hbr.org/2023/09/how-tonys-chocolonely-created-a-purpose-driven-and-profitable-supply-chain

5. A column generation approach for the integrated crew re-planning prob…

   Breugem, T., van Rossum, B. T. C., Dollevoet, T., & Huisman, D. (2022). A column generation approach for the integrated crew re-planning problem. Omega-International Journal of Management Science, 107, Article 102555.