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Dr. Marjan van den Akker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University, holding a joint position with KLM through the KickstartAI program. Her research focuses on the intersection of Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence, emphasizing robust planning algorithms, simulation, and optimization for public transportation and energy networks. She earned her PhD in Mathematics from Eindhoven University of Technology, specializing in scheduling and resource allocation.
Marjan leads the Computing Science master program and teaches 'Optimization for Sustainability.' She co-directs the Utrecht AI & Mobility Lab and Robust Rail Lab, and serves as President of the Dutch Operations Research Society (NGB). Her work bridges academia and industry, collaborating with partners like KLM, TenneT, and NS to address real-world challenges in logistics, energy systems, and rail operations. Key contributions include airline recovery algorithms, energy-constrained scheduling, and robustness metrics for stochastic systems.
Her research has been published in top journals/conferences such as Journal of Scheduling, Computers & Operations Research, and IEEE conferences. Projects include the EU-funded ACDC-ESM initiative analyzing renewable energy systems and the Building Resilient Airline Operations collaboration with KLM.
