Next to his new appointment as a member of the College-Industry Council on Material Handling Education, he also serves on the Scientific Advisory Council of the World Food Logistics Organization. Roodbergen has been a visiting professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) and a visiting scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His solution approaches have been successfully applied at a number of companies. In his academic research, Roodbergen has a diverse interest, ranging from the logistics of temperature-controlled (food) products, human factors in logistics, and facility logistics. He has published in international journals such as Operations Research, IIE Transactions and the European Journal of Operational Research.