Education
Benders studied mathematics at the Utrecht University, where he later also received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1960 with the thesis entitled "Partitioning in Mathematical Programming" under supervision of Hans Freudenthal.
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Career
He was the first Professor in the Netherlands in the field of Operations Research and is known for his contributions to mathematical programming. Late 1940s had started his career as statistician for the Rubber Foundation. In 1955 he moved to Shell laboratory in Amsterdam, where he researched mathematical programming problems concerning the logistics of oil refinery.
He developed the technique known as Benders" decomposition, and used the results in his doctoral thesis.
In 1963 Benders was appointed Professor of Operations Research at the Eindhoven University of Technology, being the first Professor in the Netherlands in that field Among his Phd students were Israel Herschberg (1966), Jaap Wessels (1968), Freerk Lootsma (1970), Joseph Evers (1973), January van Geldrop (1980), Robert van der Vet (1980) Johannes van der Wal (1980), and Jacob Koene (1982).
He retired at the Eindhoven University of Technology on May 31, 1989.
