Bart Roets

Bart is a Belgian railroad engineer. He has extensive managerial and expert experience at Belgian railways, and international lobbying experience at the Community of European Railways (CER). Bart co-founded the On Track Lab, and currently serves as a Principal Engineer at Infrabel’s Performance Data division. His primary goal is to bridge the gap between practitioners and academics, and foster result-driven collaboration that is beneficial to both parties.

He has developed partnerships with academics from Belgium, France, the UK, the USA, and Australia. Bart holds a MSc in Electronics Engineering, a MSc in Public Management, and a PhD in Business Economics (all from Ghent University, Belgium). He is affiliated researcher at Ghent University, and adjunct professor at IÉSEG School of Management (France). He is also partner and key collaborator in several research projects at Virginia Tech’s System Performance Lab (USA).