From 1 January 2008 till 31 December 2012 Bert Gerards is appointed as Adjunct Professor at the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization of the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario. It's an honorary position.

The department is part of the Faculty of Mathematics and built an exceptional reputation during its 40-year existence. It is renowned in areas like combinatoric optimization, algebraic combinatorics, graph theory, continuous optimization, quantum computing and cryptography. Practically all leading researchers from these areas have worked at or visited this department. Bert Gerards will be working in the area of combinatoric optimization.