Prof. Kenneth Sorenson from the University of Antwerp joins the EUROSIS Board of Trustees

Dear Colleague,

I have the pleasure to announce that Professor Kenneth Sorenson has joined the
EUROSIS Board of Trustees, taking over from Professor Jan Broeckhove who is
retiring.

Prof. Kenneth Sörensen (Antwerp, Belgium, 1974) graduated as a commercial engineer
in information systems from the University of Antwerp in 1997. He obtained his PhD
entitled ”A framework for robust and flexible optimisation using metaheuristics” from
the University of Antwerp in 2003 and continued as a post-doctoral researcher at the
UAntwerp. During 2006 and 2009, he worked as a postdoc researcher of the Flemish Fund
for Scientific Research (FWO)at the Faculty of Engineering of the KULeuven. In 2009,
Kenneth Sörensen was appointed as a Research Professor of the Faculty of Applied Economics
of the University of Antwerp, a position he holds to date. Within this Faculty, he founded
the ANT/OR research group, that focuses on applications of operations research. This
research group has already delivered six finished PhDs, all under the supervision of
Kenneth Sörensen, and currently consists of three professors and about ten PhD students.

Kenneth Sörensen has published a large number of articles in international refereed journals,
and has presented his work at numerous scientific conferences. He is considered one of the
world’s leading experts in thefield of metaheuristics. His main research interest lies
in the application of advanced (metaheuristic) optimization methods and in the development and study of optimization methods.

Kenneth Sörensen is the founder and current coordinator of the EURO working group EU/ME
– the metaheuristics community, the largest online platform for researchers in metaheuristics
worldwide. He currently holds the position of Vice President 2 of EURO - The Association of
European Operational Research Societies. He is also associate editor of the Journal of Heuristics, the International Transactions in Operational Research, and 4OR - the Quarterly Journal of the French, Italian, and Belgian Operational Research Societies.

Last but not least we want to thank Professor Jan Broeckhove for his long support of, and professional input in EUROSIS from its inception to ITS actual setup. We wish him all the best in his retirement.

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Philippe Geril, EUROSIS-ETI
European Simulation Office
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Ghent University - Ostend Campus
Wetenschapspark 1
Plassendale 1
B-8400 Ostend Belgium
Tel: OO32.59.255330
Fax: OO32.59.242738
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