prof.dr.ir. (Niels) NAH Agatz

Biography

Niels Agatz is a Professor of Last-mile Supply Chain Analytics at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and serves as Scientific Director for TKI Dinalog. He has held visiting appointments at the School of Industrial Engineering of the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Transport and Logistics Engineering department of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Dr. Agatz’ research focuses on developing data-driven quantitative models and optimization methods to support sustainable last-mile supply chains. He is particularly interested in technology-driven innovations in urban delivery, shared mobility, supply chain management and omni-channel retail operations. His research has been published in leading academic journals including Transportation Science, Production and Operations Management, Transportation Research Part B and the European Journal of Operational Research and has been featured in national and international media including the Wall Street Journal and New Scientist. He currently serves as an Associate Editor at Transportation Science and a guest editor for a special issue on last-mile operations for the Journal of Operations Management.  He has edited special issues on transportation-enabled urban services (Service Science), online retail operations (Naval Research Logistics), drone delivery systems (Networks) and sustainable transportation (Transportation Research Part C). Niels Agatz is the winner of several grants and awards, including an NWO Rubicon grant and the INFORMS TSL Stella Dafermos Achievement Award. He currently leads a work package on last-mile delivery operations in the City Logistics Lab project. Professor Agatz likes to work in close collaboration with company stakeholders. He holds an MSc in Industrial Engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology and a PhD in Logistics and Operations Management from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.  

Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University

Full professor | Department of Technology and Operations Management
Email
nagatz@rsm.nl
Location
Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam

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Work

  • NAH (Niels) Agatz (2021) - Transportation Science (Journal)
  • NAH (Niels) Agatz (2019) - Networks (Journal)

TKI Dinalog

Start date approval
October 2022
End date approval
July 2024
Place
BREDA

Distribution Networks

Year Level
Exchange, master, IM/CEMS, ERIM
Year
2022
Course Code
BM06SCM

SCM Company-based Research Project

Level
master
Year Level
master
Year
2022
Course Code
BMBPSCM

SCM Master Thesis

Level
master
Year Level
master
Year
2022
Course Code
BMMTSCM

  • Alp Arslan

    Operational Strategies for On-demand Delivery Services
  • Joydeep Paul

    Online Grocery Operations in Omni-channel Retailing: Opportunities and Challenges
  • Anirudh Kishore Bhoopalam

    Truck Platooning: Planning and behaviour
  • Xishu Li

    Dynamic Decision Making under Supply Chain Competition
  • Qing Chuan Ye

    Multi-objective Optimization Methods for Allocation and Prediction
  • Liana van der Hagen

    Designing sustainable attended home delivery services in e-grocery
  • Kaveh Azadeh

    Robotized Warehouses: Design and Performance Analysis
  • Ehsan Aghamohammadzadeh

    Demand Management for Attended Home Service Delivery
  • Ayman Abdelwahed

    Optimizing Sustainable Transit Bus Networks in Smart Cities
  • Camill Harter

    Vulnerability through Vertical Collaboration in Transportation: A complex networks approach

Scientific Director

Start date approval
July 2022
End date approval
July 2026

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