The MEL lecturers are a mixture of Erasmus University faculty members and successful businessmen and women. This way we ensure that the MEL students are instructed by both entrepreneurs and academics, to achieve a fine balance between theory and practice.
More information on the MEL lecturers can be found below.
Koen Berden is Director of Outreach and Member of the Board of Directors at the World Trade Institute in Bern, Switzerland and Assistant professor at the University of Bern. He is responsible for the WTI project portfolio, strategic (academic) alliances of the WTI, and the creation of short courses and trainings. The WTI is a leading global authority in the fields of international trade and trade law.
Rob Zuidwijk is professor of Ports in Global Networks at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM). The chair, endowed by the Erasmus Trustfund and created on 1 December 2014, focuses on three topics: cc-ordination for sustainable global supply chains, synchromodal transport networks (a flexible and integral deployment of different modes of transport on a network to better meet customer demand and sustainability objectives), and inter-organisational systems in logistics.
Rommert Dekker is a professor of operations research, quantitative logistics, and IT at the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE). Professor Dekker currently leads an industry-sponsored research program on service logistics.
Dr. Spanjaart is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Centre for Maritime Law at the National University of Singapore. He started as an attorney at law with Kernkamp Advocaten in Rotterdam.
Mr. Bottema has been involved in the Container Terminal Industry for over 15 years. He is currently managing the commercial activities for ECT part of HPH Group in Rotterdam.
Dr. Saanen is Managing Director and Founder (1996) of TBA, a leading terminal design and simulation company in The Netherlands. He is in charge of all port & terminal related projects all over the world in their planning and optimization process of container terminals by means of simulation and emulation.
Dr. Van klink is Director of the Research Centre for Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation at the Hogeschool Rotterdam. He was senior strategy & innovation advisor at Rabobank in Rotterdam.
Prof. Veenstra is scientific director of the Dutch Institute for Advanced Logistics, Dinalog, and part-time professor in International Trade Facilitation and Logistics at the Technical University Eindhoven. He was senior business consultant at TNO from 2011 to 2014. Before joining TNO he was assistant professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam from 1994 to 2010.
Dr. Michele Acciaro is Associate Professor of Maritime Logistics at Kühne Logistics University (KLU), effectively from the 1st of January 2016. Between 2013 and 2015 he worked for the same institution as Assistant Professor. In 2011 and 2012 he held the position of Senior Researcher Green Shipping at the Research and Innovation department of Det Norske Veritas AS (now DNV-GL) in Høvik, near Oslo.
Prof.dr. Michaël Dooms (MSc & PhD, Applied Economics: Business and Technology, Solvay Business School, University of Brussels) is full professor at the Solvay Business School at the University of Brussels (VUB). He teaches in the domain of Strategic Management and is responsible for the internship program, the annual foreign trade missions and international entrepreneurship projects. For the trade mission project, since 2007, he has supervised more than 300 practical company-funded projects, aimed at foreign market expansion in various emerging economies.
Dr. De Langen is the owner and principal consultant of Ports & Logistics Advisory, based in Malaga, Spain. Dr. De Langen also holds a part-time position as professor Cargo Transport & Logistics, at Eindhoven University of Technology, since 2009. At Eindhoven University of Technology, he aims to develop cutting edge research in ports & logistics.
Prof. dr. Elvira Haezendonck (Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Solvay Business School) is Full Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), and Visiting Professor at the University of Antwerp (UA), as well as guest lecturer at Erasmus University of Rotterdam (Maritime Economics and Logistics) and at C-MAT (University of Antwerp, UA).
Koen Bel is Data scientist at Erasmus Q-Intelligence, a consultancy firm affiliated with Erasmus University Rotterdam. He obtained his PhD in Econometrics in 2015. His interests focus on marketing analytics, macro econometrics and HR analytics. Next to data related projects for various companies, he teaches programming for several (post-) master education programs
Wilco van den Heuvel is an associate professor at the Econometric Institute of the Erasmus School of Economics. His main research interests are in deterministic production planning, in particular in extensions of the economic lot-sizing model.
