​"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:

  1. ANT/OR - Operations Research
  2. Applied Data Mining
    • Focus on mining behavioural data for marketing and risk management applications
    • Senior academic staff member: David Martens
  3. Active Perception Lab
    • Focus on the development of biomimetic sensors
    • Senior academic staff member: Herbert Peremans
  4. Risk Models in Innovation
    • Focus on the discovery of the characteristics of successful and failing projects
    • Senior academic staff member: Johan Braet
  5. Environmental Economics

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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.

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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 information sheet.

Ready to apply? Send in your application by July 1Discover all the information below.st 2026 to david.martens@uantwerpen.be (ADM), kenneth.sörensen@uantwerpen (ANT/OR) or philippe.nimmegeers@uantwerpen.be (EnvEcon) or one of the other professors of the department of Engineering Management.