Albert Wagelmans

Albert Peter Marie (Albert) Wagelmans (born 1960) is a Dutch economist and Professor of Management Science at the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) of the Erasmus University Rotterdam working in the fields of mathematical optimization methods for production, public transport and health care planning.

Born in 1960 in Rotterdam, Wagelmans received his MSc in Econometrics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in 1985, where in 1990 he received his Phd with the thesis entitled "Sensitivity analysis in combinatorial optimization," under supervision of Alexander Rinnooy Kan and Antoon Kolen.

Wagelmans had started his academic career at the Erasmus University Rotterdam as teaching assistant in 1982, became Assistant Professor in 1986 and was Instructor at the MBA Executive Development program in 1987/88. In 1989 he was visiting researcher at the Université Catholique de Louvain, and in 1990/91 visiting researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Back in Rotterdam in 2001 Wagelmans was appointed Professor of Operations Research at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he held his inauguration speech "Moeilijk doen als het ook makkelijk kan" (Making it hard, when it can be done easily) about the usefulness of mathematical analysis in decision problems. In 2005, he was appointed Professor of Management Science.

From 1999 to 2003 Wagelmans was director of the Rotterdam Institute for Business Economic Studies (RIBES), and Associate director of the Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM). From 2001 to 2006 he was Director of the Bachelor-Master Program in Econometrics & Management Science, and from 2005 to 2006 also Director of the Bachelor-Master Program in Informatics & Economics. From 2006 to 2014 Wagelmans was Director of the Econometric Institute as successor of Philip Hans Franses, and is succeeded by Patrick Groenen. He is research fellow of the Tinbergen Institute since 1999, and fellow of ERIM since 2006.

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