Professor Francisco Saldanha da Gama
PhD
Management School
Head of the Operations Management and Decision Sciences Research Centre
Chair in Supply Chain Management
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- Profile
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Throughout my academic career I have worked in different universities and faculties. I have taught many different modules both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. I have published extensively in scientific international journals mostly in the fields of facility location and Supply Chain Management. I co-edited the two editions of the 鈥淟ocation Science鈥 volume published by Springer. I presented above 150 contributed talks at scientific events being invited to innumerable scientific events as a plenary/semi-plenary/keynote speaker. I was awarded several prizes and honours. I am a member of several scientific organizations such as the EURO Working Group on Locational Analysis of which I am one of the past coordinators. Currently, I am the Editor-in-Chief of Computers & Operations Research and member of the Editorial Advisory Board of several other scholarly journals.
- Qualifications
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PhD - University of Lisbon
- Research interests
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- Supply chain management
- Logistics
- Decision-making under uncertainty.
My research has focused on the role of facility location decisions in strategic supply chain planning, which calls for developing optimization models and solution techniques for comprehensive problems emerging in the real-world. Aspects such as the time-dependent nature of the decisions to make and he uncertainty underlying the data have attracted my attention together with network design decisions. Additionally, I have focused on integrating the above decisions with others made both at a tactical and operational levels such as routing, capacity, and inventory. I have devoted part of my research activity to several families of scheduling problems such as the resource constrained project scheduling problem and its extensions.
- Publications
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Books
- Facility Location Under Uncertainty Models, Algorithms and Applications. Springer.
- . Springer International Publishing.
- . Springer International Publishing.
Journal articles
- . Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 187, 103034-103034.
- . Omega, 127, 103092-103092.
- . Information Sciences, 666, 120426-120426.
- . Omega, 119, 102894-102894.
- . European Journal of Operational Research, 307(3), 1040-1054.
- . European Journal of Operational Research, 307(1), 233-248.
- . European Journal of Operational Research, 310(1), 53-70.
- . European Journal of Operational Research, 304(1), 353-365.
- . Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 166, 102903-102903.
- . INFORMS Journal on Computing, 34(5), 2776-2803.
- . Information Sciences, 600, 239-262.
- . Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 63, 506-523.
- . International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 35(10-11), 1059-1076.
- . Omega, 103, 102430-102430.
- . Omega, 102, 102393-102393.
- . Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 138, 101943-101943.
- . Annals of Operations Research, 292(1), 249-285.
- . IEEE Access, 7, 136729-136742.
- . European Journal of Operational Research, 277(1), 215-226.
- . Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 123, 38-63.
- . Omega, 83, 107-122.
- . Transportation Science, 53(4), 1126-1149.
- . International Transactions in Operational Research, 26(3), 946-967.
- . European Journal of Operational Research, 270(1), 132-145.
- . European Journal of Operational Research, 268(2), 432-449.
- . TOP, 26(2), 283-308.
- . TOP, 26(2), 229-232.
- . Applied Mathematical Modelling, 55, 13-32.
- . European Journal of Operational Research, 264(3), 813-829.
- . Omega, 74, 122-134.
- . INFORMS Journal on Computing, 29(4), 737-753.
- . Mathematical Programming, 163(1-2), 411-444.
- . Expert Systems with Applications, 57, 91-103.
- . Operations Research for Health Care, 8, 24-32.
- . Annals of Operations Research, 246(1-2), 289-312.
- . Optimization Letters, 9(6), 1255-1258.
- . TOP, 22(3), 1123-1147.
- . Computers & Industrial Engineering, 72, 230-238.
- . Networks and Spatial Economics, 14(1), 1-25.
- . TOP, 22(1), 80-108.
- . Computers & Industrial Engineering, 64(1), 366-380.
- . Omega, 40(5), 511-524.
- . European Journal of Operational Research, 220(1), 67-78.
- . International Journal of Production Economics, 136(1), 218-230.
- . Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 46(4), 529-543.
- . Computers & Operations Research, 39(12), 2968-2977.
- . OR Spectrum, 34(3), 635-663.
- . Applied Mathematical Modelling, 35(10), 4841-4851.
- . Omega, 39(3), 335-345.
- . European Journal of Operational Research, 207(1), 92-96.
- . European Journal of Operational Research, 204(2), 237-244.
- . Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 44(8-9), 1047-1066.
- . TOP, 18(1), 158-184.
- . European Journal of Operational Research, 196(2), 401-412.
- . OR Spectrum, 31(3), 461-463.
- . Computers & Operations Research, 35(6), 2103-2113.
- . Computers & Operations Research, 35(3), 649-650.
- . Computers & Operations Research, 33(5), 1242-1258.
- . Computers & Operations Research, 33(1), 181-208.
- . European Journal of Operational Research, 104(2), 269-287.
- . Location Science, 6(1-4), 211-223.
- . Electronics, 10(20), 2510-2510.
- . Annals of Operations Research.
Chapters
- , International Series in Operations Research & Management Science (pp. 391-431). Springer International Publishing
- , International Series in Operations Research & Management Science (pp. 81-105). Springer International Publishing
- , International Series in Operations Research & Management Science (pp. 155-181). Springer International Publishing
- , Location Science (pp. 1-21). Springer International Publishing
- , Location Science (pp. 303-326). Springer International Publishing
- , Location Science (pp. 185-213). Springer International Publishing
- , Handbook on Project Management and Scheduling Vol.1 (pp. 547-564). Springer International Publishing
- , Location Science (pp. 1-18). Springer International Publishing
- , Location Science (pp. 289-310). Springer International Publishing
- , Location Science (pp. 177-203). Springer International Publishing
Conference proceedings papers
- A modeling framework for stochastic multi-period capacitated multiple allocation hub location. ILS 2016 - 6th International Conference on Information Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain
- The risk-Aware multi-period capacitated plant location problem (CPLP-Risk). ILS 2016 - 6th International Conference on Information Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain
- Single-allocation hub location problems with capacity decisions and balancing requirements. International Conference on Mathematical and Computational Methods in Science and Engineering - Proceedings (pp 51-56)
Preprints
- Outsourcing policies for the Facility Location Problem with Bernoulli
Demand.
- Facility Location Under Uncertainty Models, Algorithms and Applications. Springer.
- Research group
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Operations Management and Decision Sciences (OMDS) Research Centre
INFORMS - Institute for the Operations Research and Management Science, Operational Research Society
Operational Research Society (UK)
EURO working group on Stochastic Optimization
EWGLA - EURO Working Group on Location Analysis
ECCO 鈥 European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization
SOLA 鈥 Section on Location Analysis, INFORMS
- Grants
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2020鈥2023
"Optimization and evaluation of resources: methodological and computational advances and applications" (PID2019-105952GB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033). Project funded by Ministerio de Econom铆a y Competitividad, Espanha.
2020鈥2023
Portuguese Science Foundation, Project UIDB/04561/2020, Centro de Matem谩tica, Aplica莽玫es Fundamentais e Investiga莽茫o Operacional, 2020.
2019鈥2021
鈥淥ptimizaci贸n Matem谩tica y Combinatoria en Redes鈥. Grant funded by the Ministry of Economy and y Competitiveness, Spain.
2019鈥2021
"Analysis y resolucion de problemas de rutas de vehiculos y localzacion de servicios" (PGC2018-099428-B-I00). Project funded by Ministerio de Econom铆a y Competitividad, Espanha.
2019
Project UID/MAT/04561/2019鈥擟entro de Matem谩tica, Aplica莽玫es Fundamentais e Investiga莽茫o Operacional. Grant funded by the Portuguese Science Foundation. 2017鈥2021 "Sequentielles Entscheiden bei systeminh盲renter Unsicherheit: Mathematische Optimierungsverfahren f眉r zeitdynamische Anwendungen'', in German (Time-dependent decisions under uncertainty: optimization models and methods). Project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)---Project 354864080. Main Researchers: Fabian Dunke and Stefan Nickel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.
2017, 2018
Project SFRH/BSAB/130291/2017. Individual grant for a sabbatical period abroad funded by the Portuguese Science Foundation.
2016鈥2019 "DO-ILT: Optimizacion discreta para problemas integrados en logistica y transporte" (MTM2015-63779-R), Grant funded by Ministerio de Econom铆a y Competitividad, Espanha.
2015鈥2019
Portuguese Science Foundation, project UID/MAT/04561/2013, Centro de Matem谩tica, Aplica莽玫es Fundamentais e Investiga莽茫o Operacional.
2015, 2016
Grant from the Portuguese Science Foundation (DAAD from the German side) for a Portuguese-German project.
2014鈥2016
Thematic Network: Location and Related Problems (MTM2014-53828-REDT). Ministry of Economy and y Competitiveness.
2012鈥2015
Project "OPTIMOS3: Modelos y m茅todos de Programaci贸n Matem谩tica y sus aplicaciones". (Mathematical Programming models and methods and their applications). Grant funded by Ministerio de Educaci贸n y Ciencia (MTM2012鈥36163鈥怌06鈥05). 2011鈥2013 Thematic Network: Location and Related Problems (MTM2010-12053-E). Ministry of Economy and y Competitiveness.
2009鈥2012
Project "OPTIMOS2: Modelos y m茅todos de Programaci贸n Matem谩tica y sus aplicaciones". (Mathematical Programming models and methods and their applications). Grant funded by Ministerio de Educaci贸n y Ciencia (MTM2009-14039-C06-05).
2009, 2010
Grant by the Council of the Portuguese Universities (DAAD from the German side) for a Portuguese-German project. 2008, 2009 Portuguese Science Foundation Sabbatical funding, SFRH/BSAB/799/2008. Grant for a sabbatical period abroad funded by the Portuguese Science Foundation.
1995鈥2014
Projects PRAXIS/2/2.1/MAT/139/94 and POCTI-ISFL-1-152鈥擟entro de Investiga莽茫o Operacional. Grant funded by the Portuguese Science Foundation, Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon (Assistant Researcher).
1991鈥1993
Junta Nacional de Investiga莽茫o Cient铆fica e Tecnol贸gica (JNICT) 鈥 Portugal 鈥10/1991-07/1993, individual grant as an M.Sc. student.
- Teaching interests
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In the past two decades I have gathered a teaching experience both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels focusing on many different topics that include statistics, operations research, logistics, decision making under uncertainty, inventory management, production planning, and scheduling to mention a few. I have taught for students enrolled in different programs such as Engineering, Management, Marketing, Mathematics, etc. It has always been my concern to adapt the contents to the background of the students and also to the profile of the program in which they are enrolled. I always ensure that students can follow the contents from the very beginning of a module and progressively deepen their knowledge together with the interest in the topics taught. Finally, at a postgraduate level, I have also supervised different MSc and PhD students again with different profiles and goals. I think that teaching can be successful only if a learner-centred attitude. This makes it possible to strongly motivate students and prepare them better for a successful professional life while simultaneously promoting inclusion, equity, and tolerance, thus widely fulfilling the role of the dichotomy teaching-learning.
- Teaching activities
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Currently, at 91直播 University Management School, I am teaching Analysis for Decision Making and Business Statistics.
- Professional activities and memberships
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Editor-in-Chief, Computers and Operations Research; Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of three scholarly journals: the Journal of the Operational Research society (UK), Operations Research Perspectives, and Algorithms; Consulting Editor of the journal Social Sciences & Humanities Open.
- PhD Supervision
At a PhD level, I am keen on supervising students who look for contributing to scientific advances in the areas of Logistics and Supply Chain Management, with a strong focus on intertwining strategic and operational decisions via the development of models that an capture the major features of relevance in the problems. Though the proposal of rational ways for finding feasible solutions to such problems a major goal should be to better support decision-makers achieving more efficient and effective solutions to the problems not overlooking major concerns such as sustainability and resilience.
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