• mathematics
• operations research
• optimisation

• Appointment TU Delft
       As of September 1st, 2015, I also hold a 0.2 fte full professorship at the Delft University of Technology.   

09-2012 to 09-2013: Nanyang Technological University. Tenured full professor, Division Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science

06-2009 to present: Tilburg University, The Netherlands, Full Professor, Department of Econometrics and Operations Research, Tilburg School of Economics and Management (TISEM).

09-2004 to 06-2009:Tilburg University, The Netherlands, Associate Professor (tenured),
Department of Econometrics and Operations Research, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration.

09-2003 to 09-2005University of Waterloo, Canada
Associate Professor (tenure track)
Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, Faculty of Mathematics.

01-2000 to 09-2003Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Assistant Professor (tenured)
Department of Information Systems and Algorithms, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science.

01-1998 to 01-2000Delft University of Technology, The NetherlandsAssistant Professor (fixed term)
Department of Stochastics, Statistics and Operations Research, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science.

Projects, grants & awards

• NWO "vernieuwingsimpuls (VIDI)" grant awarded for the project proposal "Semidefinite programming approaches for intractable optimization problems"; Euro 600,000.00 in total for a period of five years starting September 2006.
• National Scientific and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Discovery Grant, Canada(CDN $17,000.00 per year for 5 years starting 2004).
• CFI new opportunities grant, Canada. "Providing Research Infrastructure for Mathematical Excellence." CFI funding: CDN $630,429.00. Joint application with other University of Waterloo professors: Jeff Orchard, Marten Karsten, Chek Beng Chua, Jochen Konemann, Romy Shioda, Jacques Verstraete, Nathalie Lanson, Michael Rubinstein, Weidong Tian and Grace Yi. Awarded in 2004, this money was used to buy a SGI Altrix supercomputer shared by the applicants.
• Start-up grant, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Canada. (CDN $20,000.00), September 2003.
• NWO grant for the research project "Semidefinite programming, nonnegative polynomials and approximation theory" in the open competition for mathematics (July 10th 2002; Euro 104,601.00). The post docs Radinka Dontcheva and Dima Pasechnik were appointedon this project.

• Associate editor of the INFORMS journal Operations Research, 2006 - 2012 (two terms).
• Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), since January 2005.
• Associate editor of SIAM Journal on Optimization, since September 2004.
• Guest editor of SIAG/Opt Views-and News issue "Sums of squares optimization via Semidefinite Programming", Volume 15, Number 2, 2004.
• Guest editor of Mathematical Programming Series B, Special Issue on "Large Scale Nonlinear and Semidefinite Programming" (with Erling Andersen, Levent Tuncel, Henry Wolkowicz and Shuzhong Zhang); Mathematical Programming Series B, Volume 109, Numbers 2-3 / March, 2007.
• Joint editor (with H. van Maaren) of the WBBM (Wiskundige Beheers- en Beleidsmodellen) Report Series published by Delft University Press. (Volumes 37 through 49, 1998-1999).

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