Education
In Mathematics at Delft University of Technology in 1974, and his Doctor of Philosophy cum laude in Mathematic from Utrecht University in 1977 on the dissertation entitled "Analysis of Models for Tandem Queues", advised by Wim Cohen.
In Mathematics at Delft University of Technology in 1974, and his Doctor of Philosophy cum laude in Mathematic from Utrecht University in 1977 on the dissertation entitled "Analysis of Models for Tandem Queues", advised by Wim Cohen.
Born in Den Haag, Boxma earned his Bachelor of Science Boxma continued at Utrecht as faculty from 1974 to 1985, and was International Business Machines Corporation Research postdoctoral fellow in 1978-1979, before joining the faculty of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam. There he chaired the performance analysis group until 1998.
He was full professor at University of Tilburg from 1987 to 1988. and since 1998 he is as full professor holding the chair of Stochastic Operations Research in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, becoming vice dean of the department in 2009.
He was the editor-in-chief of Queueing Systems from 2004 to 2009, and scientific director of European Institute for Statistics, Probability, Stochastic Operations Research and its Applications from 2005-2010. Also, he is honorary professor in Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (2008-2010 and 2011-2013).