Assistant Professor in Service Operations Management at Vlerick Business School and a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Business and Economics of KU Leuven.

Management Integration, Introduction to Statistics, Decision Scieneces for Business, Executive Teaching, Project Supervision

Service Operations Management Decision Sciences Hospitals & Healthcare Operations research Operating room scheduling Capacity management

2004 - 2009 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Doctor (PhD) in Applied Economics
Thesis: Operating room planning and scheduling: Solving a surgical case sequencing problem
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erik Demeulemeester
2002 - 2004 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Master in Applied Economics, magna cum laude
Thesis: Manufacturing flexibility: Concept en meting
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Willy Herroelen
2000 - 2002 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Campus Kortrijk, Belgium
Bachelor in Applied Economics, magna cum laude

Articles (Peer reviewed)
2013 A closer view at the patient surgery planning and scheduling problem: A literature review with Michael Samudra and Erik Demeulemeester. Review of Business and Economic Literature, 58(2), pp 115-139.
2013 Integrated staffing and scheduling for an aircraft line maintenance problem with Jeroen Beliën, Erik Demeulemeester, Jorne Van den Bergh and Philippe De Bruecker. Computers & Operations Research, 40, pp 1023-1033. (Impact factor 2011: 1.720)
2012 Improving workforce scheduling of aircraft line maintenance at Sabena Technics with Jeroen Beliën and Erik Demeulemeester, Interfaces, 42, pp 352-364. (Impact factor 2010: 0.826)
2011 A decision support system for surgery sequencing at UZ Leuven’s day-care department with Erik Demeulemeester, International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making, 10(2), pp 1-16. (Impact factor 2010: 3.139)
2010 On the use of planning models in the operating theatre: Results of a survey in Flanders with Erik Demeulemeester and Jessie Van der Hoeven, International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 25, pp 400-414. (Impact factor 2010: 0.658)
2010 Operating room planning and scheduling problems: A classification scheme with Erik Demeulemeester and Jeroen Beliën, International Journal of Health Management and Information, 1 (1), pp 71-83. (Invited contribution inaugural issue)
2010 Operating room planning and scheduling: A literature review with Erik Demeulemeester and Jeroen Beliën, European Journal of Operational Research, 201, pp 921-932. (Impact factor 2010: 2.158)
2010 Operating room planning and scheduling: Solving a surgical case sequencing problem, 4OR – A Quarterly Journal of Operations Research, 8, pp 101-104. (Impact factor 2010: 0.690)
2009 Optimizing a multiple objective surgical case sequencing problem with Erik Demeulemeester and Jeroen Beliën, International Journal of Production Economics, 119, pp 354-366. (Impact factor 2009: 2.068)
2009 Sequencing surgical cases in a day-care environment: an exact branch-and-price approach with Erik Demeulemeester and Jeroen Beliën, Computers & Operations Research, 36 (9), pp 2660-2669. (Impact factor 2009: 2.116)
2009 A decision support system for cyclic master surgery scheduling with multiple objectives with Jeroen Beliën and Erik Demeulemeester, Journal of Scheduling,12 (2), pp 147-161. (Impact factor 2009: 1.265)
2008 Capacity of clinical pathways: A strategic multi-level evaluation tool with Erik Demeulemeester, Journal of Medical Systems, 32 (6), pp. 443-452. (Impact factor 2008: 0.674)
2007 Clinical pathways and operations management: it takes two to tango with Erik Demeulemeester, Walter Sermeus and Jeroen Beliën, Tijdschrift voor Economie en Management, Volume LII, 3, pp. 451 – 469.
2006 Visualizing the demand for various resources as a function of the master surgery schedule: A case study with Jeroen Beliën and Erik Demeulemeester, Journal of Medical Systems, Volume 30, 5, pp. 343 – 350. (Impact factor 2006: 0.581)

Chapter in book
2013 Operating room planning and scheduling with Mihaly Samudra, Erik Demeulemeester and Jeroen Beliën. Book chapter (pp. 121-152) in: Handbook of Healthcare Operations Management: Methods and Applications (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science 184), Springer, 630 pages, ISBN-13: 978-1461458845, edited by Brian Denton, North Carolina State University.
2010 Managing critical resources through an improved surgery scheduling process with Erik Demeulemeester and Jeroen Beliën. Book chapter in: Handbook of Healthcare Delivery Systems, Taylor & Francis Group CRC Press, edited by Yuehwern Yih, Purdue University.

Other
2013 Belang van traceability in de zorgsector with Tom Van Steendam, Zorgmagazine, 19, pp 30-33.
2013 Witboek: Positie van de ziekenhuisapotheek in de zorgketen with Rein Robberecht and Paul Gemmel, Vlerick Research Report, 38 p.
2013 De onthaalomgeving vanuit een service-operations perspectief with Paul Gemmel and Rein Robberecht, Hospitals.be, 11 (2), pp 22-28.
2012 Lean in healthcare – Breaking the trade-off between service and efficiency with Paul Gemmel and Rein Robberecht, Zorgmagazine, May 2012, pp 32-34.
2009 Operating room planning and scheduling: Solving a surgical case sequencing problem. PhD Dissertation, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, pp 229
2006 Het operatiekwartier als motor van het ziekenhuis with Erik Demeulemeester and Jeroen Beliën, Business InZicht, Volume 22, pp. 2 – 3.
2005 Capaciteitsanalyse van klinische paden via simulatie: Een praktische benadering with Erik Demeulemeester, pp 279-335. Hoofdstuk 10 in: BOS Klinische Paden (Promotor Prof. W. Sermeus) – Project ordered by the FOD Volksgezondheid, Veiligheid van de Voedselketen en Leefmilieu.