Germán Paredes-Belmar, Ph.D.

Hello! Welcome to my personal webpage. 

I am an assistant professor at the School of Industrial Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. My research field is focused on operations research and operations management, with a specific interest in applied vehicle routing, facility location, and network design problems. My current research projects involve last-mile delivery, recyclable and organic waste collection, and network design.

In addition to these projects, I'm also interested in research areas such as Milk collection, HAZMAT transport, Humanitarian Logistics, Production Planning, etc.

I obtained MSc. and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering Sciences at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC), Santiago, Chile. Before going to PUC, I obtained an Industrial Engineer title at Universidad del Bío-Bío, Concepción, Chile.

As an important part of my education, I was very fortunate to have a number of valuable research experiences:

• At Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, my advisor Vladimir Marianov and I introduced, modeled, and solved various vehicle routing problems with multiple-product loading and mixing.

• At Universidad del Bío-Bío, my advisor Carlos Obreque and I introduced, modeled, and solved the Median Shortest Path Problem.

• I was an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Sciences Department at Universidad Andres Bello from September 2014 until December 2020.

• FONDECYT Regular 1241471: "A sustainable framework for designing an urban recyclable waste collection system". Co-Investigator. 2024-2027

• FONFEF IDeA I+D Genérico ID22I10107: "Desarrollo de la herramienta tecnológica RESCOL para el diseño de recolección colaborativa de residuos sólidos domiciliarios en zonas urbanas". Chile. Deputy Director, 2023-2024

• FONDECYT Regular 1210183: "Vertical and horizontal routing problems with time dependency". Principal Investigator. 2021-2024

• FONDECYT Iniciación 11170102: “Vehicle routing problems with multiple-product loading and mixing”. Principal Investigator, 2017-2020

• UNAB DI 2-17 RG: “Vehicle Routing Problems with multiple products and Mixing" Chile.  Principal Investigator, 2017-2018

• UNAB DI-1248-16/RG: “Scale Economies on hub location models”. Co-Investigator, 2016-2017  

• FONDAP 15110017: “Natural Disaster Management in Chile– CIGIDEN". Research Assistant, 2013-2015

• Fondecyt Regular 1130265: "Location And Routing of Undesirable Items". Research Assistant, 2013-2016

• FONDECYT Regular 1100296: "Extensions of Covering Location Models, Quality of Service and User Choice". Research Assistant, 2010-2013