​"Engineering management is a specialized form of management that is concerned with the application of engineering principles to business practice." - Wikipedia
Research mission
Engineering management is a broad field of research, ranging from technical and methodological subjects (operations research, ddata mining), via engineering, to management and poilicy aspects (sustainability, entrepreneurship, innovation, energy and environment). For this reason , the departement Engineering Management consists of five subgroups, that cover together the most important subdomains of the field of Engineering Management:
- ​ANT/OR - Operations Research
- Focus on applications of Operations Research
- Senior academic staff members: Kenneth Sörensen, Johan Springael, Christof Defryn​
- ​Applied Data Mining
- Focus on mining behavioural data for marketing and risk management applications
- Senior academic staff member: David Martens
- Active Perception Lab
- Focus on the development of biomimetic sensors
- Senior academic staff member: Herbert Peremans
- Risk Models in Innovation
- Focus on the discovery of the characteristics of successful and failing projects
- Senior academic staff member: Johan Braet
- Environmental Economics
- Focus on economic and sustainability assessments of environmental, agricultural and energy systems and technologies and safety and security
- Senior academic staff members: Steven Van Passel, Herbert Peremans, Genserik Reniers, Tine Compernolle, Philippe Nimmegeers​
Members
Chairman
Prof. dr. David Martens​​
Building B
Prinsstraat 13
2000 Antwerpen
tel: +32 3 265 4069
​david.martens@uantwerpen.be​
Vice chairman
Prof. dr. Steven Van Passel​
Building B
Prinsstraat 13
2000 Antwerpen
tel: +32 3 265 4895
​steven.vanpassel@uantwerpen.be​
Administration
Mrs. Aline Janssens​
Building B
Prinsstraat 13
2000 Antwerpen
tel: +32 3 265 4031
​SecretariaatENM@uantwerpen.be​
Discover the full list of ENM researchers and members.
Call for candidates Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026
Are you a talented and ambitious postdoc thinking about your next career move? The Engineering Management research group (Faculty of Business and Economics - University of Antwerp, Belgium) invites expressions of interest from researchers interested in submitting a high-quality Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship proposal in the broad area of Engineering Management, with the Engineering Management Department as a host.
More information about the application requirements and the full scope of the role: see ​
Ready to apply? Send in your application by July 1Discover all the information below.st 2026 to david.martens@uantwerpen.be (ADM), °ì±ð²Ô²Ô±ð³Ù³ó.²õö°ù±ð²Ô²õ±ð²Ô°ª³Ü²¹²Ô³Ù·É±ð°ù±è±ð²Ô (ANT/OR) or philippe.nimmegeers@uantwerpen.be (EnvEcon) or one of the other professors of the department of Engineering Management.
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