Biography
Ren茅 (M.) B.M. de Koster is a professor of logistics and operations management at the Department of Technology and Operations Management, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM). After completing his PhD at Eindhoven University of Technology (1988) he worked as a consultant. He joined Erasmus University in 1995. Professor De Koster's research interests are warehousing, material handling, container terminal operations, behavioural operations and sustainable logistics. He is the author and editor of eight books and over 300 papers published in books and journals such as OR, POM, JOM, TS, IISE T, EJOR, and Interfaces. He is in the editorial boards of eight academic journals, a fellow of two reseach schools, chairman of Stichting Logistica, and founder of the Material Handling Forum. Professor De Koster is involved in teaching at RSM at all levels: bachelor, master, post-experience, and executive development. He held the honorary Francqui chair for Hasselt University in 2018 and as 鈥渢he most influential researcher鈥 in material handling.
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Lecturer | Department of Technology and Operations Management
- rkoster@rsm.nl
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Professor emeritus | Department of Technology and Operations Management
- rkoster@rsm.nl
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Work
- Zhongqiang Ma, Ren茅 de Koster, Debjit Roy & Guohua Wu (2026) - - European Journal of Operational Research - doi: -
- Majid Karimi, Nima Zaerpour & Ren茅 de Koster (2026) - - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 208 - doi: -
- Timo Lehmann & Ren茅 de Koster (2026) - - Transportation Science, 60 (2), 343-365 - doi: -
- Thomas De Lombaert, Kris Braekers, Rene de Koster, Katrien Ramaekers & Sebastien Lizin (2026) - - Computers and Industrial Engineering, 211 - doi: -
- Mahdi Ghorashi Khalilabadi, Debjit Roy & Rene de Koster (2026) - - International Journal of Production Research, 64 (5), 1619-1647 -
- Xiaoli Zhang, Michael Becker-Peth, Rene de Koster & Jelle de Vries (2026) - - Decision Sciences - doi:
- Fotios Petropoulos, Henk Akkermans, O. Zeynep Aksin, Imran Ali, Mohamed Zied Babai, Ana Barbosa-Povoa, Olga Batta茂a, Maria Besiou, Nils Boysen, Stephen Brammer, Alistair Brandon-Jones, Dirk Briskorn, Tyson R. Browning, Paul Buijs, Piera Centobelli, Andrea Chiarini, Paul Cousins, Elizabeth A. Cudney, Andrew Davies, Steven J. Day, Ren茅 de Koster, Rommert Dekker, Juliano Denicol, M茅lanie Despeisse, Stephen M. Disney, Alexandre Dolgui, Linh Duong, Malek El-Qallali, Behnam Fahimnia, Fatemeh Fakhredin, Stanley B. Gershwin, Salar Ghamat, Vaggelis Giannikas, Christoph H. Glock, Janet Godsell, Kannan Govindan, Claire Hannibal, Anders Haug, Tomislav Hernaus, Juliana Hsuan, Dmitry Ivanov, Marianne Jahre, Bj枚rn Johansson, Madan Shankar Kalidoss, Argyris Kanellopoulos, Devika Kannan, Elif Karul, Konstantinos V. Katsikopoulos, Ayse Beg眉m Kilic-Ararat, Rainer Kolisch, Maximilian Koppenberg, Maneesh Kumar, Yong Hong Kuo, Andrew Kusiak, Michael A. Lewis, Stanley Frederick W.T. Lim, Veronique Lim猫re, Jiyin Liu, Omid Maghazei, Matija Mari膰, Joern Meissner, Miranda Meuwissen, Pietro Micheli, Samudaya Nanayakkara, Beng眉 Nur 脰zdemir, Thanos Papadopoulos, Stephen Pavelin, Srinath Perera, Wendy Phillips, Dennis Prak, Hubert Pun, Sharfah Ahmad Qazi, Usha Ramanathan, Gerald Reiner, Ewout Reitsma, Jens K. Roehrich, Nada R. Sanders, Joseph Sarkis, Nico Andr茅 Schmid, Christoph G. Schmidt, Andreas Schroeder, Kostas Selviaridis, Stefan Seuring, Chuan Shi, Byung Gak Son, Martin Spring, Brian Squire, Wendy van der Valk, Dirk Pieter van Donk, Geert Jan van Houtum, Miriam Wilhelm, Finn Wynstra & Ting Zheng (2026) - - International Journal of Production Research, 64 (1), 330-513 - doi: -
- Zhongqiang Ma, Rene de Koster, Debjit Roy & Guohua Wu (2026) - - International Journal of Production Research, 64 (5), 1648-1675 - doi: -
- Mahdi Ghorashi Khalilabadi, Debjit Roy & Rene de Koster (2025) - - Transportation Science, 60 (1), 101-131 - doi: -
- Rene de Koster, Debjit Roy, Yun Fong Lim & Subodha Kumar (2025) - - Production and Operations Management, 34 (11), 3343-3363 - doi: -
- Thomas De Lombaert, Kris Braekers, Ren茅 De Koster & Katrien Ramaekers (2025) - - IFAC Papersonline, 59 (10), 1-6 - doi: -
- Lu Zhen, Zheyi Tan, Ren de Koster, Xueting He, Shuaian Wang & Huiwen Wang (2025) - - Transportation Science, 59 (5), 1130-1152 - doi: -
- Yuan Fang, Rene de Koster, Debjit Roy & Yugang (Yugang) Yu (2025) - - Transportation Science, 59 (3), 603-627 - doi: -
- Yuerong Chen, Xianhao Xu, Bipan Zou, Rene de Koster & Y (Yeming) Gong (2025) - - Naval Research Logistics, 72 (2), 220-241 - doi: -
- Alexandros Pasparakis, Jelle de Vries, Rene de Koster & Debjit Roy (2025) - - Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, 37 (1), 1-28 - doi: -
- Rene de Koster (8 August 2022) - Constraints are strong drivers for automation
- Rob van Tulder & Rene de Koster (12 April 2021) - SDG business logistics case wins 2020 EFMD case writing competition
- Marta Szymanowska, Rob van Tulder, Rene de Koster, Erik van Raaij, Dirk Schoenmaker, Steef van de Velde, Steve Kennedy, Gabriele Jacobs, Yashar Ghiassi-Farrokhfal, Ferdinand Jaspers, Micha茅la Schippers & Frank Wijen (11 June 2019) - New online course: Driving Business Towards The SDGs
- Rene Koster (1 January 2003) - Logistieke knelpunten weer in kaart gebracht
- Rene Koster (1 January 1997) - Logistiek op maat, magazijn op maat
- MBM (Rene) de Koster (2020) - Production and Operations Management (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Editorial work 鈥 Academic - MBM (Rene) de Koster (2019) - Service Science (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Editorial work 鈥 Academic - MBM (Rene) de Koster (2017) - Transportation Research, Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Editorial work 鈥 Academic - MBM (Rene) de Koster (2017) - Transportation Science (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Editorial work 鈥 Academic - Rene Koster (2015) - International Journal of Production Research (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Editorial work 鈥 Academic - Rene Koster (2014) - Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Editorial work 鈥 Academic - Rene Koster (2013) - International Journal of Operations and Production Management (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Editorial work 鈥 Academic - Rene Koster, K Gue & IFA Vis (2013) - Transportation Science (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Publication Peer-review 鈥 Academic - Rene Koster (2012) - Transportation Science (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Editorial work 鈥 Academic - Rene Koster (2012) - Operations Research (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Editorial work 鈥 Academic
- Lu Zhen, Zheyi Tan, Rene de Koster & Shuhaian Wang (2024) - Transportation Science paper of the year award 2023, for the paper "How to Deploy Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems"
- Mahdi Ghorashi Khalilabadi, Debjit Roy & Rene de Koster (2024) - IISE Annual Conference best student paper award 2024 for the paper 鈥淗uman-Robot Matching Policies in Order Picking Systems using Queuing Models鈥
- Giuseppe Fragapane, Rene de Koster & Fabio Sgarbossa (2023) - EJOR Best Paper Award 2023 for the paper "Planning and control of autonomous mobile robots for intralogistics: Literature review and research"
- Rene de Koster, Nils Boysen & Felix Weidinger (2022) - Best European Journal of Operational Research Review Paper
- Rene de Koster, Mahdi Ghorashi Khalilabadi & Debjit Roy (2022) - POMS OPEX best paper finalist
- Mahdi Ghorashi Khalilabadi, Debjit Roy & Rene de Koster (2022) - POMS OPEX best paper finalist for the paper "A Data-driven Approach to Enhance Worker Productivity by Optimizing Facility Layout"
- Mahmut Tutam & Rene de Koster (2022) - Best paper award finalist for the paper 鈥淭o Walk or Not to Walk? Designing Intelligent Order Picking Warehouses with Collaborative Robots鈥
- Rene de Koster (2022) - BVL Ehrennadel
- MBM (Rene) de Koster (2021) - EFMD Case Writing Competition Award 2020, for the case "Managing Lean Success: A Warehouse Balancing Act (A) & (B)鈥
- MBM (Rene) de Koster (2021) - First prize in Humanities and Social Sciences of MOE (Ministry or 美女福利电影院午夜 of the PRC) for the paper 鈥淐lass-based storage with a finite number of items. More classes is not always better鈥, Production and Operations Management, 2015.
- MBM (Rene) de Koster (2021) - Informs TSL 2021 Facility Logistics SIG Outstanding Paper Award, for the paper 鈥淲orkforce Scheduling with Order-Picking Assignments in Distribution Facilities鈥, Transportation Science, 2021
- MBM (Rene) de Koster (2020) - Best paper award, Honorary Mention in the IISE Transactions 2020
- MBM (Rene) de Koster (2020) - Informs TSL 2020 Facility Logistics SIG Outstanding Paper Award, for the paper 鈥淐apacity analysis of sequential zone picking systems鈥, Operations Research, 2020
- MBM (Rene) de Koster (2019) - Best paper award Honorary Mention, IISE Transactions 2018
- MBM (Rene) de Koster (2019) - Best paper award, honorable mention, Journal of Operations Management
- MBM (Rene) de Koster (2019) - Award of excellence, by the SDG Academy & SDSN Network, for the MOOC 'Driving business towards the SDGs'
- MBM (Rene) de Koster (2018) - Honorary Francqui Professorshop Hasselt University
- MBM (Rene) de Koster (2018) - Mentioned as "Most influential researcher" in Material Handling
- Ren茅 de Koster, Daan Stam & Jelle de Vries (2014) - Best student paper award TRAIL2014, "Making the Right Pick: Aligning Order Picking Methods, Incentive Systems and Regulatory Focus to Increase Picking Performance"
- Ren茅 de Koster & Yeming Gong (2010) - Best paper IIE Transactions 2008-2009
- MBM (Rene) de Koster (2010) - Honorary member, VeLA
- Ren茅 de Koster, Kees-Jan Roodbergen & Jose Larco Martinelli (2009) - 2nd prize in best student paper award POMS 2009, orlando: "Managing Warehouse Efficiency and Worker Discomfort Through Enhanced Storage Assignment Decisions"
- H. Quak & Ren茅 de Koster (2008) - Finalist best paper award Journal of Operations Management 2007
- Ren茅 de Koster, Kees-Jan Roodbergen, Jan Dul & Jose Larco Martinelli (2008) - Best paper award TRAIL 2008
- Ren茅 de Koster & Yeming Gong (2008) - Best paper award IIE Transactions 2008: ?A polling-based dynamic order picking system for online retailers?, 40(11), 1070-1082
- Ren茅 de Koster & Hans Quak (2007) - Nominated for the best paper award, Journal of Operations Management 2007: "Exploring retailers' sensitivity to local sustainability policies", 25, 1103-1122
- Ren茅 de Koster & Mengfei Yu (2007) - 2nd prize in student paper competition IESM 2007, Beijing: 'A fast and flexible tool to design order picking systems'
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