Henk Zijm

Willem Hendrik Maria (Henk) Zijm (born 3 May 1952) is a Dutch mathematician, and Professor Production and Supply Chain Management and Emeritus Rector Magnificus (2005–2009) at the University of Twente.

In 1982 he received his Phd in operations research at the Eindhoven University of Technology under supervision of Jaap Wessels and Gerhard Willem Veltkamp with a thesis entitled "Nonnegative Matrices in Dynamic Programming.

From 1983 to 1990 he worked in industry at Philips in Eindhoven as consultant in the fields of Operations Research, Logistic Management and Manufacturing Planning and Control.

From 2002 to 2004, he chaired the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, and from 2005 to 2009 he was Rector Magnificus of the University of Twente as successor of Frans van Vught.

Since 2009, he has been professor in production and supply chain management, and since 2011, director of the Dutch Institute for Advanced Logistics (DINALOG) in Breda.