Loe Schlicher is an assistant professor of Operations Management and Game Theory within the Operations, Planning, Accounting, and Control research group at the department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences. His research focuses on game theory and stochastic optimization, especially in the context of homeland security and defense logistics. 

In 2023, Loe was nominated by the dean of the Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences department for the TU/e Best Young Researcher Award, in which he was awarded the second prize. Other recognitions are the Beta Ph.D. Award for the best dissertation in the field of Operations Management and Logistics, a third place in the INFORMS Koopman prize competition, the second place in the SING best paper competition and the Industria teaching talent prize, awarded by the student association of Industrial Engineering. 

Loe is a recipient of an early-career NWO Veni grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research and leads (as principal investigator) a Ph.D. project on homeland security, which is in close collaboration with and funded by the National Police and the National Coordinator of Counterterrorism and Security. Next, he is also a co-applicant in two EU Defense Fund projects, called ROLIAC and DISCMAM, and he is acting as work package leader in the first one. In 2023, Loe was appointed by the Ministry of Justice and Security to lead a large-scale research on improving the Dutch system Protection and Security. In the same year, he also became a member of the TU/e Young Academy of Engineering. Loe is also an associate editor of the journal Naval Research Logistics.

Loe Schlicher received a B.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering in 2011 and an M.Sc. degree in Operations Management and Logistics in 2013, both from Eindhoven University of Technology. After that, he carried out his Ph.D. research (2013-2017) in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences at the same university. In 2018, he moved to The Netherlands Defense Academy where he held a position as assistant professor at the Department of Military Logistics. In April 2020, he started as an assistant professor at the Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences department, in the research group Operations, Planning, Accounting, and Control.  

I use mathematical models to combat terrorism and organized crime to make the world a safer place.