Edwin van Dam

Edwin van Dam is a Full Professor in the Department of Econometrics and OR at Tilburg University, affiliated with the TS Economics and Management faculty and CentER. His research focuses on Combinatorics, Discrete Mathematics, and Operations Research, with contributions to eigenvalue studies, hypergraphs, and graph theory.

He earned his PhD from CentER (1992–1996) and held academic roles since 1996, including postdoctoral fellowships at Queen’s University (1997–1998) and assistant/associate professorships at Tilburg. He co-authored textbooks like Linear and Dynamical Systems, Optimization and Games (2006, 2010).

Recent research emphasizes spectral graph theory, hypergraphs, and combinatorial designs. He supervised four PhD students and contributed to projects on distance-regular graphs and black-box function approximation.

Collaborations span global institutions, and he leads the Operations Research research group at Tilburg.