Niels Agatz


Niels Agatz is an associate professor of transportation and logistics at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, where he also serves as the academic director of the MSc program in Supply Chain Management. His research focusses on planning and control of transportation and logistics systems. He is particularly interested in new applications in last-mile delivery, e-fulfillment, ridesharing and on-demand transportation. His research has been published in leading academic journals as Transportation Science and Transportation Research Part B. Niels leads various funded research projects in close collaborated with companies such as Ahold, ORTEC, Simacan, DPD and TNO. Before joining the Rotterdam School of Management, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Industrial Engineering of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Niels Agatz obtained his MSc in Industrial Engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology and his PhD from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.