PhD Position Business Analytics and Data Integration for Logistic Supply Chains

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label Burse autorenew 2025-09-29, 17:01 history_edu Maria Dumitru
We are seeking a PhD student (4 year terms) to join a recently funded Dinalog project. The main objective of this project is to strengthen the Dutch logistics supply chain by addressing three major challenges: the need for a unified logistic network, the need to increase the efficiency, reliability and sustainable delivery of logistic services, and the ambition to trigger and push the “mental switch” of both shippers and 4PLs, towards a synchromodal way of working, in which the decision about the mode of transport for the next part of a route is made as late as possible, allowing optimal flexibility in routing and improved quality of service and sustainability.

More concretely, the main objectives of this project are:
  1. the design of an synchromodal logistic network model
  2. the design of an integrated synchromodal logistics service platform,
  3. the development of related planning and scheduling policies, and of serious gaming for synchromodal planning.
The Organisation



The University of Twente. We stand for life sciences and technology. High tech and human touch. Education and research that matter. New technology which drives change, innovation and progress in society. The University of Twente is the only campus university in the Netherlands; divided over six faculties we provide more than fifty educational programmes. The University of Twente has a strong focus on personal development and talented researchers are given scope for carrying out pioneering research.

The School of Management and Governance (SMG) strives to hold a leading position in the field of business and social sciences and to do joint education and research with the technical schools of the University of Twente. The school focuses on management, governance, innovation, technology and entrepreneurship. In all these fields, the school provides bachelor, master and professional development programmes. In addition, scientific and applied research is carried out in various branches, such as health care, higher education, banking, and services business. Research is accommodated within the university research institutes: The Institute for Governance Studies (IGS), and the Centre for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT). The school has approximately 350 staff and 2,200 students.