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Marjan van den Akker has a M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. Her Ph.D. thesis is in the area of combinatorial optimisation and concerns machine scheduling and was supervised by Jan Karel Lenstra and Martin Savelsbergh.
After her PhD she was a postdoc at CORE in Louvain-la-Neuve.
For more than 5 years,she was employed as technology consultant in the ICT Division of the National Aerospace Laboratory NLR. There she has worked on modelling, optimisation, and simulation in Air Traffic Management and Electronic Road Pricing.
Since december 2000, she is working at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University. She is a Associate Professor in the Algorithms and Complexity group headed by Hans Bodlaender. Her research area is advanced planning algorithms, robust planning and simulation and includes optimization of planning and control in energy networks and public transportation. Her work is published in well-known international journals and conferences in Computer Science and Operations Research. For a number of years she has been coordinator of the Software- and Gameproject where teams of students develop software tools or games for a real client and which is the final assignment of the bachelor Computer Science. Currently, she is coordinator in the Computing Science Master Program and she teaches different courses in simulation and optimization. Moreover, she is manager of the AI Mobility lab and of the Special Interest Group AI and Mobility at Utrecht University. Finally, she is a member of the Executive Board of the Landelijk Network Mathematische Besliskunde (LNMB).