Johannes Arnoldus Elizabeth Emmanuel van Nunen (23 December 1945 – 12 May 2010) was a Dutch engineer, management consultant, and Professor of Logistics at the

Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam (abbreviated as ''EUR'', nl, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam ) is a public research university located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The university is named after Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, a 15th-century humanist ...

, and expert in the field of

logistics Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. In a general business sense, logistics manages the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of consumption to meet the requirements of ...

Supply Chain Management In commerce, supply chain management (SCM) is the management of the flow of goods and services including all processes that transform raw materials into final products between businesses and locations. This can include the movement and stor ...

and

Operations Research Operations research ( en-GB, operational research) (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a discipline that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve deci ...

Biography

Born in

Venlo Venlo () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the southeastern Netherlands, close to the border with Germany. It is situated in the province of Limburg (Netherland ...

, Van Nunen studied

Applied Mathematics Applied mathematics is the application of mathematical methods by different fields such as physics, engineering, medicine, biology, finance, business, computer science, and industry. Thus, applied mathematics is a combination of mathematical s ...

at the

Eindhoven University of Technology The Eindhoven University of Technology ( nl, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven), abbr. TU/e, is a public technical university in the Netherlands, located in the city of Eindhoven. In 2020–21, around 14,000 students were enrolled in its BSc a ...

, where he received his MA in 1971. There in 1976 he also received his PhD under supervision of

Jaap Wessels Jacobus (Jaap) Wessels (19 January 1939 – 30 July 2009) was a Dutch mathematician and Professor of Stochastic Operations Research at the Eindhoven University of Technology, Jo van Nunen and Jaap van der Wal. "Jaap Wessels–his life with stocha ...

with a thesis entitled "Contracting Markov decision processes". After graduating in 1976, Van Nunen started his academic career in Eindhoven as associate professor. In 1978 he was visiting professor at

North Carolina State University North Carolina State University (NC State) is a public land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 1887 and part of the University of North Carolina system, it is the largest university in the Carolinas. The universit ...

in the US for one year. In 1984 he was appointed professor at the Interuniversity Institute of Business Administration in Delft. In the late 1980s this institute was merged into the

, and is now

Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (or RSM) is the international business school of the Erasmus University Rotterdam located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. RSM offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes taught mostly in English, ...

. Among his PhD students was Walther Ploos van Amstel. Van Nunen had been part-time management consultant at

Deloitte Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (), commonly referred to as Deloitte, is an international professional services network headquartered in London, England. Deloitte is the largest professional services network by revenue and number of profession ...

from 1989 to 2006, and had founded his own consultancy firm in 2006. He was board member of the Vereniging Logistiek Management for many year, and was just elected president in 2009. He participated in the EICB (Expertise- en InnovatieCentrum Binnenvaart), and he was one of the founders of the Dinalog (Dutch Institute for Advanced Logistics) research institute in

Breda Breda () is a city and municipality in the southern part of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Brabant. The name derived from ''brede Aa'' ('wide Aa' or 'broad Aa') and refers to the confluence of the rivers Mark and Aa. Breda has ...

. In 2007 he was awarded the IBM Faculty Award for all his scientific work. Jo van Nunen died from cardiac arrest 12 May 2010 in Vancouver, Canada, where he had been attending a scientific congress.Bruggenbouwer' prof. Jo van Nunen overleden
at logistiek.nl. Accessed September 26, 2013.

Publications

Van Nunen authored and co-authored many publications in the fields of

and

.List of Publications
at National Library of the Netherlands. Books, a selection: * Nunen, Jo van, ''Contracting Markov decision processes''. PhD thesis Eindhoven University of Technology, 1976. * Nunen, Jo van &

Jacques Benders Jacobus Franciscus (Jacques) Benders (1 June 1924 – 9 January 2017) was a Dutch mathematician and Emeritus Professor of Operations Research at the Eindhoven University of Technology. He was the first Professor in the Netherlands in the field of ...

. ''Een decision support systeem voor locatie en allocatie problemen bij een drankenconcern,'' 1982. * Nunen, Jo van & Jacob Wijngaard (eds.). ''Personeelplanning : theorie en praktijk,'' Alphen aan den Rijn : Samsom, 1983. * Nunen, Jo van. ''Beslissings-ondersteunende systemen : een blijvende uitdaging.''. Inaugural lecture, Interuniversitair Instituut Bedrijfskunde, 1984. * Nunen, Jo van, Hans van der Heijden & Rene Wagenaar. ''Organisational redesign through telecommunications exploring authority shifts in agency relationships,'' 1993.. * Nunen, Jo van & Leonard Verspui. ''SimLog: simulatie en logistiek rond de haven,'' 1999.

References

External links

Professor Jo van Nunnen passes
''rsm.nl'', Monday, May 17 2010
Jo van Nunen (1945-2010)
by Walther Ploos van Amstel. (''in Dutch'')
Bruggenbouwer' prof. Jo van Nunen overleden
at logistiek.nl (''in Dutch'') {{DEFAULTSORT:Nunen, Jo van 1945 births 2010 deaths Dutch engineers Dutch operations researchers Eindhoven University of Technology alumni Academic staff of the Eindhoven University of Technology North Carolina State University faculty Academic staff of Erasmus University Rotterdam Deloitte people People from Venlo