Germán Paredes-Belmar, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, School of Industrial Engineering

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile

Hello! Welcome to my webpage.

I am an associate professor at the School of Industrial Engineering in Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. My research field is focused on operations research and operations management, with a specific interest in applied urban logistics, 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 transport, HAZMAT transport, Humanitarian Logistics, Production Planning, etc.

Education

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.

Experience

As an essential part of my education, I was very fortunate to have many 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. Successful applications were designed for milk collection and Hazmat collection problems.
At Universidad del Bío-Bío, my advisor, Carlos Obreque, and I introduced, modeled, and solved the Median Shortest Path Problem.
From September 2014 until December 2020, I was an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Sciences Department at Universidad Andres Bello.

Participation in Research Grants

FONDECYT Regular 1250602: "Last-Mile Delivery problems with in-building deliveries, crew assignments, and vehicle fleet design in urban areas". Principal Investigator. Research Team: Co-Investigators - Dr. Guillermo Latorre (UBIOBIO), Dr. Andrés Bronfman (UNAB).
FONDECYT Regular 1241471: "A sustainable framework for designing an urban recyclable waste collection system". Co-Investigator. 2024-2027. Research Team: Principal Investigator - Dra. Carola Blazquez (UNAB), Co-Investigator - Dra. Elizabeth Montero (UTFSM).
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. Research Team: Director - Dra. Carola Blazquez (UNAB), Researchers - Dra. Elizabeth Montero (UTFSM), Dr. Iván Franchi (UNAB), Dra. Leslie Pérez (PUCV), Dr. Alejandro Lamas (NEOMA Business School)
FONDECYT Regular 1210183: "Vertical and horizontal routing problems with time dependency". Principal Investigator. 2021-2024. Co-Investigators: Dr. Guillermo Latorre (UBIOBIO), Dr. Andrés Bronfman (UNAB).
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. Director - Dr. Armin Lüer-Villagra (UNAB)
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