Horst Complex

dr.ir. W. Haanstra (Willem)

Assistant Professor in Sustainable Asset Management
ET-DPM-AMME
Horst Complex W260
w.haanstra@utwente.nl
+31534894063
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Willem Haanstra is an Assistant Professor in the chair of Asset Management & Maintenance Engineering at the University of Twente. He holds an MSc in Industrial Design Engineering and a PhD in Asset Management, both from the University of Twente.

Within the AMME chair, Willem leads the research direction of Sustainable Asset Management which focuses on the strategic management of physical systems over their entire lifespans to ensure the long-term viability of these assets concerning financial, environmental, and societal impacts.

Willem’s research on Sustainable Asset Management focuses on the intersection of the technically oriented world of Asset Management and the broader field of Sustainable Development. Sustainable Asset Management aims to apply Life Cycle Engineering principles to evaluate and improve the financial, environmental, and social impact of technical systems over their entire life cycle. It promotes the adoption of assessment methods and strategies from the Circular Economy to enable sustainable resource use. It adopts a long-term, strategic outlook on how physical systems can adapt to socio-technical challenges such as climate adaptation, resource depletion, technological change, or the energy transition.

As an engineer-turned-researcher, Willem likes to bridge the worlds of theory and practice by not only designing methods and tools for Sustainable Asset Management but also evaluating and using them in practice, often in close collaboration with experts from industry. Previous collaborations include partners from the manufacturing, energy, and transportation sectors.

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Publications

2025

Selecting suitable indicators for the design of eco-labels for the European railway sector: a case study (2025)Procedia CIRP, 135, 124-129. Cannappah, C., Kartoidjojo, S., Haanstra, W. & Braaksma, A. J. J.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2024.12.017A systematic decision-making process flow for circular dismantling of trains: a case study (2025)Procedia CIRP (Accepted/In press). Kartoidjojo, S., Letteboer, T., Haanstra, W. & Braaksma, A. J. J.Evaluating environmental indicators for eco-labeling within the European railway sector: towards adaptive and sustainable transportation systems (2025)Procedia CIRP (Accepted/In press). Kartoidjojo, S., Haanstra, W. & Braaksma, A. J. J.Implementation of reuse and recycling strategies in railway infrastructure: insights from a case study (2025)Procedia CIRP (Accepted/In press). Kartoidjojo, S., Kortekaas, T., Haanstra, W. & Braaksma, A. J. J.Trade-offs in the collaborative design of a B2B eco-label for the European railway sector (2025)Procedia CIRP, 136, 135-140. Cannappah, C., Haanstra, W. & Braaksma, A. J. J.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2025.08.025

2024

Operationalizing the Circular Economy: A Longitudinal Study on Sustained Circular Action (2024)Sustainability (Switzerland), 16(14). Article 5874. Holwerda, H., Haanstra, W. & Braaksma, J.https://doi.org/10.3390/su16145874A serious maintenance management game for decision-making on digitized railway assets (2024)In 31st CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering (LCE 2024) (pp. 1-6) (Procedia CIRP; Vol. 122). Elsevier. Kok, A., Moerman, J.-J., Haanstra, W., Martinetti, A. & Braaksma, J.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2024.01.001Understanding the goals and needs for the use of eco-labels in the European railway sector (2024)Procedia CIRP, 122, 443-448. Cannappah, C., Haanstra, W. & Braaksma, J.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2024.01.064The Impacts on Interorganizational Project Coordination: A Multiple Case Study on Large Railway Projects (2024)Project Management Journal. Trauernicht, N., Braaksma, J., Haanstra, W. & van Dongen, L. A. M.https://doi.org/10.1177/87569728241265927

2023

Enabling Inter-organizational Change Integration in Sociotechnical Systems: Systems Thinking Applied in the Dutch Railway Systems (2023)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Ramtahalsing, M. M.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036558303

Research profiles

PhD supervision (Co-Promotor)

Current

Promoted (Co-Promotor / Daily Supervisor)

EngD supervision (Co-Promotor)

MSc supervision (Supervisor)

  • Nina Jakubeit (IEM, 2018- 11-13)
  • Rolf Gelpke (IDE, 2019-05-01) 
  • Folkert Hes (ME, 2019-07-03) 
  • Laura Hutten (ME, 2021-10-13) 
  • Mohammed Al Kathemi (IDE, 2022-01-25) 
  • Ellen Siebers (ME, 2022-10-26) 
  • Mitchel Groszpietsch (SET, 2023-06-30) 
  • Heni Ju (ME, 2023-08-29) 
  • Aggelos Fotiou (ME, 2023-09-19) 
  • Julia Wezendonk (ME, 2024-01-24) 
  • Floris van Loy (SET, 2024-03-19) 
  • Ruben Oost (ME, 2024-06-26) 
  • Tom Scholten (ME, 2024-07-23) 
  • Jaime Gutierrez (ME, 2024-11-21) 

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Courses academic year 2025/2026

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Courses academic year 2024/2025

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Horst Complex (building no. 20), room W260
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