Maria Antónia Carravilla

Associate Professor with Habilitation at Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP), Researcher at INESC TEC

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9245-2674

Maria Antónia Carravilla is a teacher at FEUP since 1985, visiting professor at Universidade de São Paulo (USP), teacher at Porto Business School in the Executive and Magellan MBA's, and a researcher at INESC TEC since 1990.

Maria Antónia is the Director of the Doctoral Program in Engineering and Industrial Management (PRODEGI @ FEUP) since 2016.

Maria Antónia Carravilla has been responsible for several R&D contracts with industry, services and public administration. These contracts resulted in reports and decision support systems that proved to be very useful tools for these organizations. The pure research contracts are mainly related with the application of constraint programming to the resolution of nesting problems. The R&D and the research contracts were the basis for the theses of several PhD students.

As a teacher at FEUP, Maria Antónia Carravilla has been responsible for several courses related with Operations Research, Operations Management and Logistics that were taught at the BSc, MSc and PhD levels. She has supervised MSc students whose theses were developed in academia as well as in industry.

Maria Antónia Carravilla received in 2009, the first time it has been awarded, FEUP’s Award for Pedagogical Excellence that aims to award the best teacher of FEUP for the past 5 years.

José Fernando Oliveira

Full Professor at Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP), Researcher at INESC TEC

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4061-1311

The main area of scientific activity of José Fernando Oliveira is Operations Research and Management Science. Within Operations Research, his main application area are the Cutting and Packing Problems, while from the techniques viewpoint his research is centered in the use and development of Metaheuristics approaches and their hybridization with Mathematical Programming based methods. He has been giving special attention in the last years to several problems arising in the Transportation sector, in particular freight transportation and the car rental industry.

With 30+ years of teaching experience, José Fernando Oliveira has taught courses on Statistics, Operations Research, Decision Support Systems, Operations Management and Logistics, both in undergraduate and post-graduate programmes in FEUP and in the Porto Business School. He has also run a few in-company short programmes on quantitative reasoning and decision.

José Fernando Oliveira is the Vice-Head of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at FEUP, a member of the General Council of the University of Porto and a researcher at INESC TEC.

José Fernando Oliveira serves as editor of the European Journal of Operational Research since 2015 and as President of the Portuguese Operational Research Society (APDIO) since 2016.

António Pais Antunes

Full Professor at Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra (FCTUC), Researcher at CITTA

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8265-9225

António Pais Antunes has a degree in Civil Engineering by the University of Coimbra (1978) and a PhD in Applied Sciences by the Catholic University of Leuven (1994). He is currently a Full Professor of the Department of Civil Engineering of UC, where he teaches courses of Urbanism and Transportation and conducts research focusing on planning of collective equipment and transportation planning. He has previously worked in the Coordinating Commission of the Centro Region, where he served as Director of Planning Services (1984-1986).

At UC, among other responsabilities, António Pais Antunes was Coordinator of the Degree in Civil Engineering (2002-2003) and President of the Department of Civil Engineering (2007-2009). He is currently a member of the Assembly of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Coordinator of the Civil Engineering Research Center, Coordinator of the Area of Urbanism, Transportation and Roads, and Coordinator of the Doctoral Programs in Transportation Systems and Territory Planning.

Beatriz Brito Oliveira

Researcher at INESC TEC, Invited Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP)

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8262-8907

Beatriz Brito Oliveira completed the PhD in Industrial Engineering and Management in May 2018, Cum Laude, by the Faculty of Engineering of the University do Porto (FEUP). She is currently a Contracted PhD Researcher in INESC TEC and an Invited Assistant Professor in FEUP. She has published articles in top journals in the fields of Operational Research and Management Science. Within this field, the application area Beatriz studies is fleet management, revenue management, and pricing (and their integration) in mobility systems, especially in the car rental and car sharing businesses.

From the techniques viewpoint, she is generally interested in quantitative methods to support real-world decisions in a time- and cost-effective manner, with a special focus on mathematical models, metaheuristics, and hybridization techniques, especially those that consider uncertainty issues.

Masoud Golalikhani

Researcher at INESC TEC

Masoud Golalikhani is a researcher at INESC TEC and he is pursuing a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. Masoud received his master degree in Industrial Engineering from the Qazvin Azad University, Iran (2015). His areas of research interest include topics in the domain of Optimization, Data Mining, and Modeling and Simulation.