Rob Zuidwijk

Professor of Global Supply Chains and Ports at Rotterdam School of Management

Biography

Rotterdam School of Management

Rob Zuidwijk is professor of Global Supply Chains and Ports at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM). The chair focuses on three topics: coordination for sustainable global supply chains, synchromodal transport networks (a flexible and integral deployment of different modes of transport on a network to better meet customer demand and sustainability objectives), and inter-organisational systems in logistics. His work has been published in journals like California Management Review, Transportation Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Communications of the ACM, and Production and Operations Management. He has participated and coordinated funded research projects in the area of international logistics and container transport. He teaches freight transport systems, intermodal transportation, international logistics and global supply chain management, and inter-organizational systems in logistics to BSc, MSc, and PhD students, and he is also involved in post-experience courses. Professor Rob Zuidwijk makes a significant contribution to Smartport, a strong research community in port-related research for which RSM and EUR are one of the main stakeholders. He is also Captain of Science of the Topsector Logistics in the Netherlands. Professor Zuidwijk received his PhD in Mathematics from Erasmus University and has held a one-year visiting position at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Education

  • PhD Erasmus University Rotterdam (1990 — 1994)

Companies

  • Professor of Global Supply Chains and Ports Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (2018)
  • Academic Director Executive Master in Customs and Supply Chain Compliance Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (2014)
  • Chair of Academic Council MSc Maritime Economics & Logistics Rotterdam School of Management (2011)
  • Endowed Professor Ports in Global Networks Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (2014 — 2018)
  • Academic Director Erasmus Smart Port Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam (2011 — 2015)
  • Professor Freight Transportation and Traffic Networks TU Delft (2011 — 2014)
  • Associate Professor Supply Chain Management Rotterdam School of Management (2006 — 2014)

Skills

The most important

  • Sustainability
  • Modeling
  • Mathematical Modeling

Other

Transportation, Dutch, Management Consulting, Freight, Analysis, Statistics, Operations Research, Data Analysis, Management, Research, Supply Chain, Logistics, Supply Chain Management

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