On Friday 31 May 2013 Ghulame Rubbaniy will defend his PhD thesis entitled 'Investment Behavior of Institutional Investors'. His supervisor is Professor Willem Verschoor. Other members of the Doctoral Committee are Han Smit and Onno Steenbeek (Erasmus School of Economics) and Eelke de Jong (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen). His copromoter is Dr. I.P.P. van Lelyveld.

On Thursday 30 May 2013 Willem van Jaarsveld will defend his PhD thesis entitled 'Maintenance Centred Service Parts Inventory Control'. His supervisor is Professor Rommert Dekker. Other members of the Doctoral Committee are Dr. Erwin van der Laan (Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Professor Ruud Teunter (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) and Professor Geert-Jan van Houtum (Eindhoven University of Technology).

On Thursday 23 May 2013 Tim Salimans will defend his PhD thesis entitled 'Essays in Likelihood-Based Computational Econometrics'. Supervisors are Professors  Richard Paap en Dennis Fok. Other members of the Doctoral Committee are professors John Geweke en Dick van Dijk (Erasmus School of Economics) and Siem Jan Koopman (VU Amsterdam).

On Friday 17 May 2013 Ralf Wieriks will defend his PhD thesis entitled 'The Landscape of Sustainability Assurance: Towards Further Shaping the Assurance Approach'. Supervisors are Professors Hans Gortemaker and Gert van der Pijl. Other members of the Doctoral Committee are professors Martin Hoogendoorn, Willem Verschoor (Erasmus School of Economics) and Philip Wallage (Universiteit van Amsterdam) 

On Thursday 18 April 2013 Vitalie Spinu will defend his PhD thesis entitled 'Nonadditive Beliefs From Measurement to Extensions'. Supervisors are Professors Peter Wakker and Han Bleichrodt. Other members of the Doctoral Committee are Professor Horst Zank (The University of Manchester), Dr. Kirsten Rohde and Dr. Vladimir Karamychev.