Johann Hurink is a full professor in the chair DMMP (Discrete Mathematics and Mathematical Programming) at the department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Twente. He received his Ph.D. degree at the University of Osnabrueck (Germany) in 1992 for a thesis on a scheduling problem occurring in the area of public transport.

The focus of his current research is on application of optimization techniques and scheduling models to problems in logistics, health care, and decentralized energy systems. He has published more than 80 refereed papers in international journals and conferences and has been involved in several European and national research projects.