Prof. Djamila Ouelhadj is a Senior Lecturer in Operational Research and a member of the Logistics and Operational Research Group (LORG) at the Department of Mathematics, University of Portsmouth. She is also the Course Leader of MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Her main research interests are operational Research and the development of novel mathematical optimization models, advanced meta-heuristic methods, and intelligent decision support systems for automatically producing high-quality solutions to a wide range of real-world optimization, scheduling, and logistics problems. She has carried out successful research in Operational Research since 1995. She received her PhD from the University of Nottingham. She then worked as a researcher and a lecturer for six years in the Automated Scheduling, Optimization, and Planning Research Group (ASAP) at the University of Nottingham. She has chaired the scheduling stream in OR53, OR54, and OR55. She has organized several Southern Operational Society Workshops on Optimization and Scheduling in Healthcare and Logistics and Transportation.
Dr. Nima Dadashzadeh is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Transport and Business Analytics at the Huddersfield Business School (HBS), University of Huddersfield, UK, and an Executive Committee Member of the Universities’ Transport Study Group (UTSG). Before joining the HBS, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Portsmouth (UK), where he led the "Travel Behaviour Modelling" workstream for the Future Transport Zone Mobility-as-a-Service project (funded by the DfT) in the Solent region. He was also the PI and Co-PI of the two projects funded by the Research England and Universities UK International (UUKi). He was a Management Committee (MC) Member from Slovenia, in EU COST Action CA16222: Wider Impacts and Scenario Evaluation of Autonomous and Connected Transport between 2020–2022. He also worked as a researcher in two EU Interreg-funded projects, namely MUSE and EN-IN, and many local traffic/transportation projects in Slovenia and Turkey (Türkiye).
