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In memoriam Anne Buijsrogge-BrentjesSadly, we have to announce that our dear former student, PhD student, and colleague Anne Buijsrogge-Brentjes passed away on May 16, 2026, at the age of 35, after a long battle with cancer.
Anne started studying at the University of Twente in 2008. After one year of Technical Medicine she decided to switch to the Applied Mathematics programme, where she revealed herself as a talented student, graduating in 2014. We were very happy that she then decided to pursue a PhD under our joint supervision in the UT's Stochastic Operations Research (SOR) and Design and Analysis of Communication Systems (DACS) groups. This culminated in a successful thesis defence in 2019, about rare-event simulation of non-Markovian queueing models.
After completing her PhD and a temporary teaching position at the UT, she moved to the University of Delft as a post-doc and teacher. We remained in contact with her, online and through visits, and for a long time she even kept collaborating with us on a scientific paper, despite the development of her illness.Read more
Chris Petri wins the Poster Award at TechMed Research Day 2026Chris Petri has been awarded the Best Poster Presentation at the TechMed Research Day 2026 for his work on improving patient admission decisions in aftercare. His project, “Deciding on Patient Admission in Aftercare,” focuses on developing a decision-support algorithm for aftercare institutions, such as nursing homes, to safely determine if a patient can be admitted. By incorporating uncertainties in patient inflow, bed occupancy, and nurse availability, Chris’s model helps reduce workload peaks for healthcare staff, an urgent challenge in Dutch elderly care. The project is supervised by Richard Boucherie, Daniela Guericke, and Anne Zander.Read more
In memoriam Anne Buijsrogge-Brentjes
Chris Petri wins the Poster Award at TechMed Research Day 2026
Pim van’t Hof has won an OW award for Best Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering 2026
Rianne de Heide joins the EMS Young Academy
University of Twente and Labmicta Join Forces to Improve Laboratory Processes
Team Twente got into the finals of Integrated Healthcare Timetabling Competition
Flowers from the Education Committee for Mentzelos Melistas
Inspiring Talks at 2024 Dutch Day on Optimization
Lotte Weedage winner of the NetSci NL Young Talent Award
International Symposium on Mathematical Programming coming to the Netherlands in 2027
Rolf van der Hulst receives Honorable Mention for Mixed-Integer Programming Computational Competition 2024
