Lector Supply chain innovation, leading lector CoE Supply chains for Society
Dr. V.H.G. (Victor) Verboeket
Professor Dr. Victor Verboeket (Heerlen, 1968) has years of experience in business, higher education and practice-based research. Victor studied Mechanical Engineering (Zuyd Hogeschool and Hogeschool Zeeland) and Business Administration (University of Lincoln and Webster University) and received his PhD in Supply Chain Innovation from the Open University of the Netherlands in 2020.
In the first phase of his career, Victor spent about 20 years in the corporate world working for international companies (including NCR and DocMorris) in a wide range of supply chain positions, including as distribution center manager, quality analyst, purchasing manager, project manager, ICT manager and business development manager. In these jobs, he managed up to 140 people directly and indirectly for long periods of time.
In the second phase of his career, Victor switched to teaching in 2012 and started teaching at Zuyd Hogeschool and became responsible for the SCM specialization within the International Business program in Maastricht. He has also been a researcher at several lectureships since then. Between 2016 and February 2020, he conducted his PhD research on the effects of digital manufacturing (3D printing) on supply chains.
Since 2013, Victor has been representing Zuyd at the European Logistics Center Limburg (ELC), of which Fontys University of Technology and Logistics is the leader. In 2014, he joined the board and since 2018 he has been chairman of the "innovation and sustainability committee. Since February 2020, in addition to his SCM work at Zuyd, he has been a Senior Researcher at the Brightlands Institute for Supply Chain Innovation (BISCI).
Because of his practical background, Victor sees research not as an end but as a means to design solutions to practical problems in an informed way. His personal motto is "bridging theory and practice.
