dr. R (Rene) Haijema

Rene Haijema is Associate Professor in Operations Research and Logistics at Wageningen University. His main research interest is reducing food loss and waste by modelling and optimizing decisions in food supply chain management. Therefore he applies optimization, simulation, and  machine learning techniques. In particular, he optimizes replensihment and markdown decisions. To achieve sciencific and practical impact, he collaborates in multi-disciplinary teams with scientists and industry in national and European projects. 

He graduated with distinction from University of Amsterdam. In 2008 he obtained a PhD degree from the University of Amsterdam. His PhD thesis shows fundamental research on applying Markov Decision Theory to amongst other production and inventory management of blood products. The software he has developed is upgraded for practical use by blood banks.This work has been awarded with national and international prices and nominations, e.g. ORTEC Excellence in Advanced Planning Award awarded by Dutch association of operations research (NGB) and ORTEC, INFORMS Best Poster Award, and finalist of the KNAW-Christiaan Huygens Science Award, and of the Euro Excellence in Practice Award.  He is member of the Executive Committee of the International Society of Inventory Research (ISIR).

• LNMB (11-7-2017/31-12-2099)
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• ISIR (1-8-2018/31-12-2099)